An Act Making Additional Appropriations for Sundry Expenses of the Government of the City of Manila for the Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Six

May 17, 1906

ACT NO. 1488

AN ACT MAKING ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF MANILA FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SIX

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in part compensation for the service of the municipal government of the city of Manila for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and thereafter until expended, unless otherwise stated:

MUNICIPAL BOARD

Contingent Expenses, Municipal Board: The unexpended balance of funds heretofore appropriated under this head is hereby made available for the payment of five hundred pesos to the organization committee of the Agricultural Congress of the Philippines as a donation to be devoted to the purposes of the sessions held in Manila in accordance with the terms of the resolution of the Commission dated January ninth, nineteen hundred and six.

LAW DEPARTMENT

Salaries and Wages, Law Department: For the employment of one interpreter, Class A, in lieu of one interpreter, Class C, in the municipal court from July first, nineteen hundred and five; one clerk, Class I, in the office of the register of deeds, from March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six; and for expenditure in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and twenty-one; two thousand two hundred and thirty-six pesos and forty-seven centavos.

Contingent Expenses, Law Department: For contingent expenses, including court costs in criminal cases in Court of First Instance, twelve thousand pesos.

In all, for the law department, fourteen thousand two hundred and thirty-six pesos and forty-seven centavos.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC WORKS

Contingent Expenses, Department of Engineering and Public Works: For the repairs to the Cuartel Meisic, eighteen thousand pesos. Meisic and the maintenance of the same, is hereby permitted to occupy the said property for municipal purposes for a period of five years without payment of rent, the question of ultimate disposition of the property to be determined hereafter without prejudice by reason of anything herein provided.

DEPARTMENT OF CITY SCHOOLS

Salaries and Wages, Department of City Schools: The unexpended balance of funds heretofore appropriated under this head is hereby made available for the employment of such temporary teachers as may be necessary, at not to exceed forty pesos per month each, from February first, nineteen hundred and six.

PUBLIC WORKS

For additional piling and other unforeseen expense in the construction of the abutments and foundations of the Ayala Bridge, and for the purchase of land required for the approaches to the said bridge, eight thousand nine hundred and seventy-one pesos and ninety-four centavos.

For the straightening and widening of streets as may be necessary to meet obligations heretofore incurred, thirty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty-six pesos and sixty centavos.

For expenditure in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Twelve hundred and twenty-two, twelve thousand seven hundred and eighty-two pesos and seventy-two centavos.

In all, for public works, fifty-three thousand five hundred and eleven pesos and twenty-six centavos.

MISCELLANEOUS

The engineer at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum, whose employment was authorized by Act Numbered One thousand and ninety-four for the inspection and supervision of work on the Pasig River walls authorized by Act Numbered Six hundred and sixty-nine, is hereby transferred to similar duties on the repair and reconstruction of Pasig River walls authorized by Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and twenty-one, effective February fifth, nineteen hundred and six, or such later date as the Municipal Board shall determine.

Total of appropriations for all purposes, eighty-five thousand seven hundred and forty-seven pesos and seventy-three centavos.

SECTION 2. Any unexpended balance of funds appropriated under any head in this Act or any head in Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and twenty-one, making appropriations for the service of the municipal government of the city of Manila for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and other designated periods, is hereby made available for expenditure for any item under that head is insufficient to meet obligations incurred or to meet expenses necessary to be incurred for the completion of work already undertaken or necessary to be undertaken during the current fiscal year, or for the maintenance of the service, anything in Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and twenty-one to the contrary notwithstanding.

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 appropriation 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, May 17, 1906.