An Act Appropriating the Sum of Six Hundred and Seventy-Seven Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty Pesos for Certain Public Works and Improvements of the Insular Government, and Providing for the Advancement of that Sum from General Funds of the Insular Government, to be Reimbursed from Proceeds to be Realized from the Sale of Additional Public Improvement Bonds

February 2, 1906

ACT NO. 1449

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY PESOS FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC WORKS AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT, AND PROVIDING FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THAT SUM FROM GENERAL FUNDS OF THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT, TO BE REIMBURSED FROM PROCEEDS TO BE REALIZED FROM THE SALE OF ADDITIONAL PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT BONDS

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for certain public works and permanent improvements of the Insular Government:

BUREAU OF PORT WORKS

For completion of existing contracts for the new harbor of Manila, and for the continuance of the improvements of the Pasig River, and incidental expenses, five hundred thousand pesos.

For additional expense incident to modification of plans for the improvement of the port of Cebu, as contemplated by resolution of the Commission of September eighteenth, nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and forty-one thousand five hundred and twenty pesos.

For the maintenance of two survey parties to investigate the ports of the Philippine Archipelago which are destined to be railway termini and such other ports as in the opinion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police merit investigation with a view to the improvement of the facilities for coastwise and foreign shipping, as contemplated by resolution of the Commission of September fourteenth, nineteen hundred and five, thirty-six thousand pesos.

In all, six hundred and seventy-seven thousand five hundred and twenty pesos.

SECTION 2. The funds hereby appropriated are an advancement from general funds aforesaid and are to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sale of public improvement bonds authorized to be issued by Act of the Philippine Commission Numbered Fourteen hundred and forty-four.

SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, February 2, 1906.