Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated an additional sum of one million one hundred eleven thousand seven hundred forty-two pesos for the Philippine Navy for the maintenance and operation of six patrol gunboats medium programmed for delivery by the United States Government to the Philippine Government during the year nineteen hundred fifty-four, as hereunder specified:
Pay and allowances of officers and enlisted men; base pay, sea duty pay at ten per cent of base pay; rental and commutation of quarters, and commutations and/or subsistence allowance of officers and enlisted men; longevity pay for officers, additional pay for specialists under section eighty-nine of the National Defense Act, as amended; re-enlistment bonus, and clothing allowance of enlisted men: Provided, That the basic subsistence allowance shall be paid at the rate of one peso each per day and the additional subsistence allowance shall be paid when on sea duty at the rate of two pesos daily for each officer, one peso for each enlisted man: Provided, further, That officer-patients and enlisted men-patients when confined in hospitals and dispensaries shall be paid their subsistence allowance at the rate of two pesos each per day: And, Provided, finally, That the Minimum Wage Law shall be implemented through the grant of salary differential to increase the total compensation of apprentice seamen to one thousand four hundred and forty pesos per annum, seamen second class to one thousand four hundred and seventy pesos per annum and seamen first class to one thousand five hundred
pesos per annum P469,568.00
calamities P540,174.00
For the drydocking and repairs of six patrol gunboats medium 102,000.00
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Total P1,111,742.00