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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 779 -
ALLOWANCES AND PAYMENTS MADE TO NATIONAL OFFICIALS BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT
UNITS |
All Provincial Governors, City and Municipal Mayors
The Acting Chairman, Commission on Audit
WHEREAS, the national government has adopted a scale of compensation that is the maximum that can be supported by public funds;
WHEREAS, local government finances are such that they should place primary emphasis on projects of local priority and on upgrading the compensation of their own officials;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby Order and Instruct:
1.
No official or employee of the national government,
including contractual and casual personnel, may receive additional
compensation, including commutable or reimbursable allowances, from any
province, city municipality or barangay. Neither may any local
government unit authorize the payment of additional compensation and
allowances to officials and employees in the Legislative, Executive or
Judicial Branches of the Government.
2. Any
existing authorizations shall terminate as of December 31, 1978.
3. The Acting
Chairman, Commission on Audit shall issue such rules and regulations as
will ensure compliance.
4. Savings
generated as a result of these Instructions shall be used by local
government units for the implementation of priority local projects, as
may be approved under existing local government finance law.
Done this 6th day of December, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-eight.
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