Republic Act No. 1808

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

WHEREAS, by Act Numbered Two thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, approved on March 24, 1920, the Philippine Legislature granted a life pension of twelve thousand pesos a year, payable in monthly installments at the end of each month, to General Emilio Aguinaldo is recognition of his services to the cause of the Philippine Revolution;

WHEREAS, for some reason or another, the said life pension granted him was stopped effective January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, by the express repeal of Act Numbered Two thousand nine hundred and twenty-two by Commonwealth Act Numbered Two hundred and eighty-eight;

WHEREAS, the Filipino people owe a lasting debt of gratitude to General Aguinaldo for his services to the Philippines as the country's Revolutionary leader and as President of the First Philippine Republic; and

WHEREAS, his need for a life pension has become urgent due to his old age and his consequential physical inability to engage in any gainful trade or occupation; Now, therefore:

Section 1

There is hereby granted to General Emilio Aguinaldo a life pension of twelve thousand pesos a year payable in equal monthly installments.

Section 2

The sum necessary to pay said pension from the approval of this Act until and including the fiscal year nineteen hundred fifty-seven to nineteen hundred fifty-eight is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Therefore, the sum necessary therefor shall be included in the annual General Appropriation Act.

Section 3

This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 22, 1957.