We, recognizing the urgent necessity of the Ordinance for the Disbursement of the Expenses for the Repatriation of Overseas Government Personnel and Others, hereby give thereto Our sanction with the advice of the Privy Council, in accordance with Paragraph 1 of Article 70 of the Imperial Constitution, and the said Ordinance to be promulgated. Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor This twenty-sixth day of the fourth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (26 April, 1946). Countersigned: Baron Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister Minister of First Demobilization Department Minister of Second Demobilization Department Chuzo Mitsuchi Minister of Home Affairs Chuzo Iwata Minister of Justice Shigeru Yoshida Minister of Foreign Affairs Joji Matsumoto Minister of State Hitoshi Ashida Minister of Walfare Viscount Keizo Shibusawa Minister of Finance Sankuro Ogasawara Minister of Commerce and Industry Yoshishige Abe Minister of Education Sempachi Soejima Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Giichi Murakami Minister of Transportation Takeshige Ishiguro Minister of State Wataru Narahashi Minister of State Imperial Ordinance No. 242 The Government may disburse the following expenditure of the General Account for the fiscal year of 1946-47. 1. Expenses for the repatriation of overseas government personnel 50,000,000 yen 2. Expenses for demobilizatin 820,000,000 yen 3. Expeneses for post-war settlement of affairs 500,000,000 yen 4. Subsidy for the price adjustment of coal 325,000,000 yen 5. Subsidy to Civilian Merchant Marine Commission 150,000,000 yen 6. Expenses for transportation of repatriates 278,000,000 yen Supplementary Provision: The present ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.