provided for a subsidy to paid the National Work for the Protection and Education of Mentally Abnormal Minors (Obra Morquio), which was intended to provide “medical-pedagogical assistance to at least 180 mentally abnormal children, regardless of any philosophical, political or religious proselytism.” Law 11413 authorized the Executive Branch “to take from General Revenue the sum of $25,000.00 (twenty-five thousand pesos) for the payment of expenses caused by the intensification of the smallpox vaccination campaign throughout the territory of the Republic, organized by the Ministry of Public health.” Law 11431 authorized the Executive Branch to “dispose of General Revenues the sum of $ 25,000. (twenty-five thousand pesos) monthly and until the respective budget is approved, aimed at combating epidemic outbreaks that affect children, including scarlet fever, typhoid, measles, gastroenteritis and broncho-pulmonary conditions, etc.” Ley 11052 of 1948 provided for an increase “in the sum of two hundred seventy thousand pesos ($270,000.00) the "Public Works Debt 5% 1940" created by law number 9,953, of September 4, 1940, allocating said amount for the completion of the construction works of the San José Hospital.” Law 9940, passed back in 1940, provided for the protection of “public officials and their heirs by attributing to them the various benefits indicated therein.” In its original wording, in force until October 3, 1950, among the conditions required of adopted children was that of not having the right to a pension transmitted by their natural family. If the adoptive father or mother died first , the situation , at the death of the legitimate ones, was not as clear as in the previous case . The issue was resolved by Law 11,520, of October 3, 1950, which gave a new wording to Article 55 of Law 9,940: “These children can opt for the pension caused by the adoptive father or mother or that caused by the natural father or mother.” Within the Colorado Party, he is now widely acknowledged for being the founder of the political branch known as Neo-Batllism. In this first period of Presidential office, the Vice President of Uruguay was Alfeo Brum. President of Uruguay (2nd period of office) Batlle Berres was President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay from 1955 to 1956. Batlle thus both preceded and succeeded Andrés Martínez Trueba as President. Background The great great grandson of Catalan settlers from Sitges, Spain, he was the son of another political figure, Luis