An Act Appropriating the Sum of Five Hundred and Thirty Thousand Pesos, or so Much thereof as may be Necessary, for Certain Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the City of Manila

August 29, 1904

ACT NO. 1222

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND PESOS, OR SO MUCH THEREOF AS MAY BE NECESSARY, FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC WORKS AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CITY OF MANILA

SECTION 1. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury of the Philippine Islands not otherwise appropriated, for public works and permanent improvements in the city of Manila, as follows:

For salaries and wages of one engineer, sewer system, at four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, with quarters in kind not to exceed seventy-five dollars per month; one assistant engineer, water system, at two thousand dollars per annum; one assistant engineer, sewer system, at two thousand dollars per annum; one assistant engineer, at one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; one surveyor, at one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; one draftsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars per annum; one assistant draftsman, at three hundred and sixty dollars per annum; miscellaneous expenses incurred in the preparation of plants and specifications for sewer and water systems, not to exceed twenty thousand pesos; installation of new water mains; purchase and installation of pipe, fittings, valves, and hydrants for new water system; purchase of seventy-two sack carriers for use in street cleaning; purchase of one walking plow, one two-horse scraper, and two two-mowing machines; purchase of seats and hand screws for pail-cleaning service; purchase of benches for parks; purchase of one hundred dump carts; purchase of three sprinkling wagons; purchase of one hundred American mules; purchase of one stone crusher with screen; for construction of building for carromata shed, cement-test, blue print and photographic dark room; construction of market in Pandacan, construction of Gagalangin market; construction of ferry at Pandacan; construction of fireproof vaults, City Hall and office of the City Assessor and Collector; construction of foundation and erection of Binondo lift bridge; construction of cement curbs in various parts of the city; construction of new bridges; purchase of paving blocks for Calle Rosario and Escolta; paving Calle Rosario and Escolta; continuation of widening of Calle Nueva, in Ermita and Malate; general widening of streets throughout the city; purchase of two thousand six hundred square meters of land on Calle Solis for site of new police station; for continuing improvement of street system in barrio Concepcion and Carlos; continuation of sundry streets; purchase of stone monuments for street intersections; purchase of two chemical fire extinguishers for City Hall; completion of retaining wall at Arroceros Shops; and purchase and placing of three thousand street signs.

In all, for public works, city of Manila, five hundred and thirty thousand pesos: Provided, That the amounts to be expended for the various purposes above mentioned, respectively, shall be allotted by resolution of the Commission, to be certified to the Auditor, and the Municipal Board of the city of Manila shall be limited in its expenditure for each item in accordance with said allotment.

SECTION 2. All balances remaining unexpended when any public works or permanent improvements appropriated for by this Act are completed and accounts settled shall be returned at once to the Treasury of the Philippine Islands and shall not thereafter be available for withdrawal or disbursement under this Act.

SECTION 3. The provisions of the first paragraph of section three of Act Numbered Eight hundred and seven, providing the manner in which withdrawals of moneys appropriated in said Act shall be made, are hereby made applicable to the withdrawal of moneys appropriated under this Act.

SECTION 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, August 29, 1904.