Title
National Pantheon for Presidents and Heroes
Law
Republic Act No. 289
Decision Date
Jun 16, 1948
Republic Act No. 289 establishes the construction of a National Pantheon in the Philippines, serving as the burial place for Presidents, national heroes, and patriots, with a Board on National Pantheon overseeing its location, construction, and funding.

Creation of the Board on National Pantheon

  • Section 2 creates a Board on National Pantheon.
  • Section 2 composes the Board of the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, and the Secretary of Education, plus two private citizens.
  • Section 2 requires the President of the Philippines to appoint the two private citizens with the consent of the Commission on Appointments.
  • Section 2 makes the Board responsible for carrying out the purposes of the Act through the functions listed in Section 2.

Board functions: site, acquisition, and burial areas

  • Section 2 requires the Board to determine the location of a suitable site for the National Pantheon.
  • Section 2 requires the Board to have the site acquired, surveyed, and fenced for this purpose.
  • Section 2 requires the Board to delimit and set aside:
    • a portion for the interment of the remains of all Presidents of the Philippines, and
    • another portion for the remains of heroes, patriots, and other great men of the country.
  • Section 2 directs the Board to cause to be interred the mortal remains of all Presidents of the Philippines, national heroes and patriots.

Board functions: monuments, road, and supervision

  • Section 2 authorizes the Board to order and supervise the construction of uniform monuments, mausoleums, or tombs.
  • Section 2 allows the Board to determine the appropriate form (“as the Board may deem appropriate”).
  • Section 2 requires the Board to order and supervise construction of a suitable road leading to the National Pantheon from the nearest national or provincial road.
  • Section 2 grants the Board authority to perform such other functions as may be necessary to carry out the Act.

Initial appropriation and use of funds

  • Section 3 appropriates one million pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
  • Section 3 limits the appropriation to meet the initial expenses in carrying out the Act’s provisions.

Popular subscription and fundraising controls

  • Section 4 authorizes the Board to open a popular subscription to raise additional funds for the Act’s purposes.
  • Section 4 limits the subscription period to not beyond December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifty, to be determined by the Board.
  • Section 4 authorizes the Board to appoint committees necessary to raise funds by popular subscription.
  • Section 4 requires all money raised by voluntary contribution to be deposited in one of the government depositories or banks in Manila.
  • Section 4 authorizes the Board to withdraw funds only as the need for them shall arise.

Personnel and compensation authority

  • Section 5 authorizes the Board to appoint an executive secretary, an auditor, and such other personnel as it deems necessary.
  • Section 5 requires that the compensation of appointed personnel be fixed by the Board.

Effectivity

  • Section 6 provides that the Act takes effect upon its approval.
  • The Act was Approved, June 16, 1948.

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