QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 2)
It appropriates fifty thousand pesos (₱50,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, to defray the expenses of a state funeral for Manuel L. Quezon and for the erection of a mausoleum to contain his remains.
Republic Act No. 2 was approved on July 19, 1946.
Section 1 states that the appropriation is to be taken “out of any funds in the Philippine Treasury not otherwise appropriated.”
First, the expenses of a state funeral for Manuel L. Quezon; and second, the erection of a mausoleum (specified as a temporary mausoleum in the text) to contain his remains.
The text states he died in the United States during the war. It is relevant because arrangements were made to transfer his remains to the Philippines, requiring expenses for a state funeral and mausoleum.
Manuel L. Quezon, the late President of the Philippines.
It specifies the erection of a “temporary mausoleum” to contain the remains of Manuel L. Quezon.
It means the appropriation is not limited to the full ₱50,000; only the amount actually needed for the purposes may be used.
The expenses of a state funeral for Manuel L. Quezon and the erection of the temporary mausoleum to contain his remains.
Per Section 2, the Act takes effect upon its approval.
It provides factual and justification grounds: Quezon’s service to the country, his death abroad during the war, and the arrangements to transfer his remains to the Philippines, thereby necessitating a state funeral and mausoleum.
It was enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled.
It is a law that allocates specific government funds for a particular purpose—state funeral and mausoleum expenses for a specific individual—rather than a general revenue or administrative law.
No. The law appropriates “₱50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary,” so only the necessary amount may be used.
It implies that logistics for repatriating the remains were already underway, and the law supplies the specific funding needed to carry out the state funeral and mausoleum requirements in the Philippines.