I hereby give my sanction to the Imperial Ordinance concerning the except on to the Imperial Ordinance relating to Salaries of Government Officials and cause the same to be promulgated.
Signed: HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This fourth day of the sixth month of the twenty-first year of Showa (4 June 1946)
Countersigned: Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Imperial Ordinance No. 303
Salaries of Government officials may, notwithstanding the provision of Article 2 of the Imperial Ordinance relating to Salaries of Government Officials, be paid on or before the twentieth day every month for the time being.
Supplementary Provision:
The present Ordinance shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.