An Act Making an Appropriation for Public Works and Permanent Improvements

February 4, 1916

ACT NO. 2583

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR PUBLIC WORKS AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury from the sale of bonds for public works or permanent improvements, and in default thereof, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for public works and permanent improvements as mentioned hereunder, and for other purposes of the Insular Government.

 

PHILIPPINE HEALTH SERVICE.
(a)	For the extension of permanent improvements on the
	property of the "Gota de Leche"	P4,000.00
(b)	For the purchase of the land and buildings situated
	thereon and at present used as a leper station at Cebu	15,000.00
	Provided, nevertheless, That in consideration of said
	sum the Government shall have the right to take over
	the buildings and land mentioned in so far as such right
	refers to the title of the present possessors, who shall
	renounce expressly to the Government all claims of
	every sort, including unpaid rentals during the last
	fifteen years and payments made by said possessors
	to the Bureau of Lands.
(c)	For the construction of a dispensary building for the
	Southern Islands Hospital, Cebu	5,000.00
(d)	For the construction of a hospital building at Cuyo,
	Palawan	9,000.00
PHILIPPINE GENERAL HOSPITAL.
(e)	For the construction of an annex to the Dispensary of
	the Philippine General Hospital	25,000.00
BUREAU OF FORESTRY.
(f)	For the completion of the administrative building of
	the Forest School at Los Baños and the purchase of
	necessary equipment	10,000.00
(g)	For the construction of quarters for the students of
	the School of Forestry at Los Baños	8,000.00
BUREAU OF PUBLIC WORKS.
(h)	For the construction, improvement, and, where
	necessary, for the maintenance of roads and bridges
	in such provinces as shall accept the provisions of
	Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and fifty-two, which
	by a resolution of the provincial board shall guarantee
	by continuing annual appropriations the establishment
	of such a system of maintenance as may be necessary
	in the opinion of the Director of Public Works, on all
	first-class roads at present constructed or which in
	future may be constructed, and are so declared by the
	Director of Public Works, including the construction,
	improvement, and maintenance of roads and bridges
	in the Provinces of Mindoro, Palawan and Batanes
	organized under the Special Provincial Government
	Act, and in the provinces organized under Act
	Numbered Twenty-four hundred and eight, to be
	apportioned in proportion to the number of inhabitants
	of each province	P1,000,000.00
(i)	For the construction, improvement, and, where
	necessary, the maintenance of roads and bridges in
	the provinces accepting the provisions of Act
	Numbered Sixteen hundred and fifty-two, and that
	by resolution of the provincial board shall guarantee
	by continuing annual appropriation the establishment
	of such a system of maintenance as may be necessary
	in the judgment of the Director of Public Works on
	all first-class roads now constructed or which may be
	constructed in the future and declared as such by the
	Director of Public Works and in the Provinces of
	Mindoro, Palawan and Batanes, organized under the
	Special Provincial Government Act, and in the
	provinces organized under Act Numbered Twenty-
	four hundred and eight, to be apportioned in the
	discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police	400,000.00
	Provided, That such amounts as may be necessary
	shall be allotted to those provinces having already
	received their regular allotment under the provisions
	of Act Numbered Twenty-five hundred and thirty-four
	to cover the excess of their apportionment under
	subsection (h) of this Act.
(j)	For the construction, improvement and, where
	necessary, for the maintenance of interprovincial
	roads and bridges between the provinces accepting
	the provisions of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred
	and fifty-two, and that by resolutions of the provincial
	boards concerned shall guarantee by continuing
	annual appropriations the establishment of such a
	system of maintenance as may be necessary in the
	judgment of the Director of Public Works on all
	first-class roads now constructed or which may be
	constructed in the future and declared as such by
	the Director of Public Works, and in the provinces
	organized under Act Numbered Twenty-four
	hundred and eight, to be apportioned in the
	discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police	P100,000.00
	Provided, That the appropriations made by paragraphs
	(h), (i) and (j) of this section may be made available
	with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and
	Police, for the construction, reconstruction, repair and
	maintenance of second and third-class roads, trails and
	temporary bridges wherever they may be most useful
	and proper for the public interest.
(k)	For the construction, reconstruction, improvement,
	investigations and surveys of ports, wharves, piers,
	retaining walls, jetties, dams and dredgings in the
	different districts of the Archipelago, including the
	purchase of necessary equipment, the continuation
	of wharves and other improvements projected by
	former laws, construction and maintenance of roads
	across Insular lands adjacent to wharves and of roads
	leading to such lands, to be apportioned in the
	discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police	400,000.00
(l)	For the drilling of artesian wells including the purchase
	of necessary equipment; for the study and construction
	of municipal systems of waterworks and for the
	investigation, construction, reconstruction, or extension
	of baths and other sanitary improvements for the
	development and exploitation of properly tested and
	approved mineral springs in places of public resort,
	whenever the provinces or municipalities concerned
	including those organized under Act Numbered
	Twenty-four hundred and eight and under the Special
	Provincial Government Act shall adopt resolutions for
	the appropriation of funds covering the cost of one-
	third part of the work, to be apportioned in the
	discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police:
	Provided, That the funds appropriated by provinces or
	municipalities to cover the cost of one-third part of the
	work shall be covered into the Insular Treasury when
	the Director of Public Works shall have fixed the
	amount thereof: Provided further, That any municipality
	or province which by virtue of the provisions of this Act
	shall incur the expense of an artesian well resulting in a
	failure shall have the amounts expended returned to it:
	And provided, finally, That the Secretary of Commerce
	and Police shall in no case assign to any municipality or
	project as Insular aid a sum in excess of twenty-five
	thousand pesos	P250,000.00
(m)	For the expenses in the investigation of applications for
	irrigation or water rights submitted to the Irrigation
	Council	15,000.00
BUREAU OF POSTS.
(n)	For the construction, reconstruction, repair and
	maintenance of telegraph lines and submarine cables
	and for the construction, reconstruction, repair and
	maintenance of wireless telegraph stations and buildings	100,000.00
	Provided, That the appropriation of fifty thousand pesos
	for the purchase of cable and the construction of cable
	lines authorized under Act Numbered Twenty-four
	hundred and ninety-four shall be likewise available for
	the maintenance of cable lines: Provided further, That
	whenever it may be more desirable for the public
	interest, and the provincial boards of provinces
	organized under Act Numbered Eighty-three, including
	the Provinces of Batanes, Mindoro and Palawan shall
	appropriate funds for the establishment of telephone
	lines, the appropriation herein made shall be available
	to aid such provinces in a sum not to exceed fifty per
	centum of the cost of each project.
BUREAU OF CUSTOMS.
(o)	For the construction and reconstruction of lighthouse-
	station buildings, lighthouses and beacons, the purchase
	and placing of buoys and the substitution of acetylene
	apparatus for oil lights	25,000.00
BUREAU OF EDUCATION.
(p)	For the construction of central and intermediate
	school buildings in municipalities organized under Act
	Numbered Eighty-two in provinces organized under
	Act Numbered Eighty-three, to be allotted in the
	discretion of the Secretary of Public Instruction:
	Provided, That in very special cases this item may
	be employed for the construction or reconstruction
	of farm and high school buildings in the regularly
	organized provinces	P150,000.00
(q)	As aid to the municipalities and barrios for the
	construction of school buildings of Philippine woods
	with galvanized iron roof to be distributed in the
	discretion of the Secretary of Public Instruction	50,000.00
(r)	For the construction of buildings at the Central Luzon
	Agricultural School, Nueva Ecija	25,000.00
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES.
(s)	For the construction of an agronomy laboratory
	building for the College of Agriculture, Los Baños,
	Laguna	30,000.00
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	Total appropriation made by this section	2,621,000.00
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SECTION 2. Subsection (u) of section one and section two of Act Numbered Twenty-four hundred and ninety-four, in relation with subsections (c), (d) and (e) of section two of Act Numbered Twenty-three hundred and seventy-eight, are hereby continued in force, so that the appropriations, made in the said subsections (c), (d), (e) and (u) by the said Acts shall be available as if they had been made by this Act: Provided, however, That the appropriation made in said subsection (c) may be set aside for the expenses of the construction of a waterworks system in the municipality of Naga, Ambos Camarines, provided the said municipality covered one-third of the cost of the project.

SECTION 3. All balances of the different appropriations made by this Act unexpended on the thirtieth of June, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be reverted to the unappropriated funds in the Insular Treasury, and thereafter shall not be available for withdrawal or expenditure except upon appropriation by the Legislature.

SECTION 4. Whenever the Governor-General shall believe that the probable revenues of the Insular Government will not be sufficient to cover the projects provided for in this Act, he may suspend in whole or in part temporarily or definitely to the end of the fiscal year the construction of any specified project, or projects provided for in this Act until otherwise ordered by the Legislature.

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

Enacted, February 4, 1916. SDAcaT