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THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 4, 1946.
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT:
Some time back you directed that I follow up with the State
Department on the consummation of the programs for restoration and
improvement of public property and essential public services in the
Philippines under Title 3 of the Philippine Rehabilitation Act, for
which appropriation of $120,000,000 was authorized. Of that sum,
Congress has appropriated $33,000,000.
I am glad to be able to report that the State Department
and other representatives of the United States have reached an
agreement with President Roxas, whereby there will be allocated to
public roads $40,000,000 and to public health $5,000,000.
With reference to port and harbor facilities, the American
representatives first suggested $20,000,000, which they have re-
duced to $18,000,000. President Roxas has asked that this be fixed
at $15,000,000, the difference of $3,000,000 to be added to the
amount allotted for restoration of public buildings. The American
representatives are not adamant, and should Roxas, in the light of
their last statement, still feel that $15,000,000 is the best figure
for port facilities, the additional $3,000,000 going to public build-
ings, they will agree. This will mean that public buildings will
be allotted $60,000,000.
These sums total the $120,000,000 authorized.
Wi th reference to the $33,000,000 already appropriated, the
State Department has announced that it shall be immediately avail-
able. While the exact amounts have not been determined, it has been
allotted so as to give approximately:
Port and harbor facilities
$ 9,000,000
Public roads
9,800,000
NATIONAL
ARCHIVES AND
Public buildings
11,500,000
RECORDS
are
SERVICE
Public health
2,800,000
ROVERNMENT
It would seem, therefore, that real progress has been made
as to allocation of funds to the various rehabilitation programs
under Title 3 of the Act.
Cry
RICHMOND B. KEECH,
Administrative Assistant
to the President.