[passage] [subhead] The National Congress has given its approval to the following bill of law: " Article 1.-declare that the level established in the article 40 of Law No 17.272 did not constitute an increase for the purposes of Article 4 of Law No 11,986 and, consequently, the officials to whom it refers did not lose the benefit of the higher salary enjoyed by the date of its not the time taken for obtaining such a benefit. It also stated that the provision of the staff referred to in Article 43 of Law No 17.272 did not constitute an increase for the purposes of Article 4 of Law No 11,986. Article 2.-Recognize in favor of the current Social Assistants of the Courts of Minors of the country for the purposes of the right to higher salary, the time during which, belonging to the Plant of the National Health Service, they provided services as such before such courts. " And because I have had to approve and sanction it; therefore, publish and take effect as a law of the Republic. SANTIAGO, twenty-five of September of a thousand nine hundred and seventy-two.-SALVADOR ALLENDE GOSSENS.-JORGE TAPIA VALDES. I say it to U. for your knowledge.-God save U.-José Antonio Viera Gallo, Assistant Secretary of Justice.