We hereby give Our sanction to the amendments of the Imperial Ordinance No. 61 of the twenty-first year of Meiji (1888) concerning the Grant out of the National Treasury for the Police Expenditure and cause the same to be promulgated.
御名御璽
Signed: Hirohito, Seal of the Emperor
昭和二十一年五月一日
This first day of the fifth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (1 May, 1946)
內閣總理大臣 男爵 幣原喜重郞
Countersigned: Baron Kijuro Shidehara Prime Minister
內務大臣 三土忠造
Chuzo Mitsuchi Minister of Home Affairs
大藏大臣 子爵 澁澤敬三
Viscount Keizo Shibusawa Minister of Finance
勅令第二百五十五號
Imperial Ordinance No. 255
明治二十一年勅令第六十一號中左ノ通改正ス
The Imperial Ordinance No. 61 of the twenty-first year of Meiji (1888) are hereby amended as follows:
Article 1. The police expenditure and the construction and repairing expenditure of the police office which are to be defrayed by the Local Expenditure of Hokkaido and by the expenditure of Tokyo-to and other prefectures shall be granted sixty per cent. of the grand total thereof by the National Treasury.
附 則
Supplementary provisions:
本令ハ昭和二十一年度分ヨリ之ヲ適用ス
The present Ordinance shall come into force from the fiscal year of the 21st of Showa (1946)
左ニ揭グル勅令ハ之ヲ廢止ス
The following Ordinances are hereby abrogated:
大正十一年勅令第二百五十六號
The Imperial Ordinance No. 265 of the 11th year of Taisho (1922)
昭和十六年勅令第五百二十一號
The Imperial Ordinance No. 521 of the 16th year of Showa (1941)