An Act Appropriating the Sum of Two Hundred and Thirty-Four Thousand Pesos, Philippine Currency, for the Construction and Repair of Roads in the Province of Cebu

November 20, 1903

ACT NO. 1000

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR THOUSAND PESOS, PHILIPPINE CURRENCY, FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF ROADS IN THE PROVINCE OF CEBU

SECTION 1. The sum of two hundred and thirty-four thousand pesos, Philippine currency, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same to be charged to the Congressional relief fund, for the purpose of constructing and repairing the following roads in the Province of Cebu:

(a) For the Carcar-Barili road, fifty-six thousand pesos, Philippine currency.

(b) For the Sogod-Putad road, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand pesos, Philippine currency.

The money hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be disbursed by the provincial treasurer of Cebu, or by a duly bonded official of the Government to be designated by the Civil Governor.

SECTION 2. The Civil Governor may direct the payment, either in money or in rice, of such portions of the expenses for labor and material as, in his discretion, may be deemed best for the people doing the labor or furnishing the material.

SECTION 3. The Consulting Engineer to the Commission shall have general supervision of the work of construction. The provincial supervisor of Cebu shall have immediate charge of all work of construction. He may appoint his assistants and fix their rates of compensation, subject to the approval of the Consulting Engineer to the Commission. He shall make detailed monthly reports of the progress of the work herein authorized, including an itemized statement of the various expenditures made during each month and the purposes thereof, to the Consulting Engineer to the Commission, who shall forward the same to the Civil Governor through the Secretary of Commerce and Police.

SECTION 4. The officers and employees provided for in section three of this Act shall not necessarily be subject to the provisions of the Civil Service Act and the Acts amendatory thereof, but employees belonging to the classified service may be temporarily transferred to this work without losing their status in the classified service.

SECTION 5. The necessary tools, supplies, and material shall be purchased by the provincial supervisor of Cebu, with the approval of the Consulting Engineer to the Commission, in the manner provided for by law. Such purchases may be made by the provincial supervisor in open market, by contract, or otherwise when, in his opinion, such purchases are necessary for the economical and expeditious prosecution of the work: Provided, However, That such purchases shall be made only with the approval of the Consulting Engineer to the Commission.

SECTION 6. 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 7. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, November 20, 1903. ASEcHI