An Act Making Appropriations for Certain Public Works, Permanent Improvements, and Other Purposes of the Government of the City of Manila

September 27, 1907

ACT NO. 1727

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC WORKS, PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS, AND OTHER PURPOSES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF MANILA

SECTION 1. The following sums, in Philippine currency, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for certain public works, permanent improvements and other purposes of the government of the city of Manila: aScITE

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC WORKS

For the improvement of the Luneta Extension, twenty thousand pesos.

For expenses incident to the acquisition of land required for the widening of Calle Jolo, thirty-six thousand pesos.

For the purchase of land other expenses incident to the extension, straightening, and for the erection of permanent street monuments, forty-eight thousand five hundred pesos.

DEPARTMENT OF CITY SCHOOLS

For the construction of a public school building in the district of Tondo, and purchase of site for same, sixty-two thousand pesos.

For the construction of retaining wall to protect the Malate city school site, six thousand pesos.

DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION AND TRANSPORTATION

For the erection of an addition to the Sampaloc market, eight thousand pesos.

MISCELLANEOUS

A continuing annual appropriation of fifty thousand pesos is hereby made for the purpose of repaying to the Insular Government the loan granted in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty: PROVIDED, That there shall be paid to the Insular Government, not later than June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, from this appropriation the sum of one hundred thousand pesos on account of the payments corresponding to the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen and eight, no provision having been made heretofore for said payments.

Bridges, esteros, parks, and streets. — A continuing appropriation is hereby created under this head of all moneys received from leases and rentals of land and sales of real estate, belonging to the government of the city of Manila, and from receipts accruing to said government from the use of public thoroughfares by private persons, including franchise taxes payable to the city of Manila by corporations whose franchise include the privilege or right of locating in the thoroughfares of the city electric light, power, or telephone conduits or poles, street railway tracks, or other analogous privileges; and the funds accruing to this appropriation may be expended only for the curbing, extension, grading, paving, straightening, and widening of alleys, roads, and streets, for the creation and improvement of public parks and plazas; for the construction of bridges; for dredging and improvement of esteros; for the acquisition of land, and for other purposes necessarily incident to the accomplishment of the objects of this appropriation as hereinbefore stated.

Total of definite appropriation for all purposes, two hundred and eighty thousand five hundred pesos.

SECTION 2. All balances remaining unexpended when any public work or permanent improvement appropriated for by this Act is completed shall be returned at once to the Treasury of the Philippine Islands and shall not be available for withdrawal or disbursement thereafter, but shall be carried to the proper account of funds available for appropriation. DETACa

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, September 27, 1907.