QuestionsQuestions (Commonwealth Act No. 650)
It amended Section 1 of Commonwealth Act No. 223. The amended Section 1 authorizes the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, with the approval of the President, to enter into air mail transportation contracts within the Philippines for up to five years, sets a maximum base rate of pay, and specifies how payment is computed based on mail load carried.
The Secretary of Public Works and Communications, with the approval of the President of the Philippines.
Not to exceed five years.
In no case shall the base rate exceed one peso per airplane mile for transporting a mail load not to exceed three hundred pounds.
Payment for transportation is at the base rate fixed in the contract for the first three hundred pounds of mail, or fraction thereof.
Plus one-tenth of the base rate for each additional one hundred pounds of mail, or fraction thereof.
Computed at the end of each calendar month on the basis of the average mail load carried by mile over the route during such month.
The passenger capacity of the planes carrying the mails should be taken into consideration.
The law appropriates three hundred thousand pesos as additional funds for the extension of air routes and for increasing the base rate of air mail contracts.
In subsequent years, the sum of four hundred and fifty thousand pesos shall be included in the Appropriation Act.
The unexpended balance shall revert to the unappropriated general funds in the Philippine Treasury.
It takes effect upon its approval (approved June 16, 1941).
The base rate must not exceed one peso per airplane mile for a mail load not exceeding three hundred pounds; beyond that, payment increases are computed using the specified incremental formula.
Because the Secretary of Public Works and Communications must have the approval of the President as a condition for entering into the air mail transportation contracts, making Presidential approval a statutory prerequisite.
Passenger capacity must be considered in fixing the base rate; it is a mandated factor influencing the rate-setting process.
They are for the transportation of mails by air between any points within the Philippines.