An Act Appropriating the Sum of Three Hundred and Fifty-One Thousand Six Hundred and Forty-Eight Dollars, in Money of the United States, or so Much thereof as may be Necessary, for Certain Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the City of Manila

August 8, 1903

ACT NO. 830

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT DOLLARS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, 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 money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for public works and permanent improvements in the city of Manila as follows:

City of Manila

Public works, city of Manila: For the construction, alteration, improvement, or purchase of the following-named buildings and grounds:

Construction of schoolhouses in the districts of Ermita, Tondo, and San Miguel or Trozo.

Construction of machinery building at Arroceros Shops.

Construction of building for shelter of road rollers at Arroceros Shops.

Construction of fire station in Tanduay.

Construction of police station in Tondo.

Construction of tenement houses.

Construction of bridge over Estero de Binondo.

Purchase of material for construction of veterinary hospital on Palomar Island, Tondo.

Purchase of grounds for and construction of markets in the districts of Sampaloc and Paco.

Completion of new city hall.

Purchase of ground for new cemetery near La Loma.

Improvement of new cemetery.

Purchase of property for street purposes and extension and widening of streets as follows: Extension of Calles Aduana and Palacio; widening Calle Sacristia; extension of new streets and widening of old streets in Ermita and Malate; widening and extending Calles Bilibid and Limasana; and widening street from Plaza del Conde to Calle Barraca.

Extension and improvement of water-supply system, including purchase of pipe and fittings.

In all, for public works, city of Manila, three hundred and fifty-one thousand six hundred and forty-eight dollars: 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 Insular Treasury and shall not be available for withdrawal or disbursement thereafter, but shall be carried to the general revenues of the Islands.

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 under said Act shall be made in other than United States currency or Philippines currency, 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 8, 1903.