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

March 11, 1904

ACT NO. 1087

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOUSAND AND TWENTY PESOS, PHILIPPINE CURRENCY, 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, in Philippine currency, 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:

CITY OF MANILA

Purchase of property for street purposes and extension and widening of streets, including completion of San Marcelino extension, Ermita, from Calle Nozaleda to Calle Herran; completion of H Street, Ermita, from Calle Herran to Calle San Andres; beginning work of widening Calle Nueva, Ermita, throughout its entire length; beginning improvement of street system in barrios of Concepcion and San Carlos, Ermita; beginning extension and improvement of streets in San Lazaro estate, Trozo district; extending and widening old streets and constructing new streets in Sampaloc district, and grading, parking, and improving Calle Moriones, Tondo; for construction of temporary fire station in Tondo; for construction of ornamental shelter on the Luneta; for construction of gateway and entrance to the new Cemetery del Norte; for construction of office and keeper's house in new cemetery; for purchase of three hundred thousand paving blocks for the Escolta, Binondo square, and Calles Echague and Rosario.

In all, for public works, city of Manila, one hundred and eighty thousand and twenty pesos, Philippine currency: 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 allotments.

SECTION 2. All balances remaining unexpended when any public works or permanent improvements appropriated for by this Act are completed 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 money 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. ATICcS

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

ENACTED, March 11, 1904.