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.