An Act Making Appropriations for Current Expenses and Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu for the Fiscal Year Ending December Thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen

December 23, 1915

ACT NO. 2543

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CURRENT EXPENSES AND PUBLIC WORKS AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MINDANAO AND SULU FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as Insular aid to the Department of Mindanao and Sulu for the fiscal year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, subject to detailed appropriation by the administrative council under the supervision of the Philippine Commission as provided by section six (a) of Act Numbered Twenty-four hundred and eight:

For the expense of the department government, including the offices of the governor and members of the administrative council, and otherwise as the public service may require — P206,480.00

For aid in the current expenses of the provincial government of Agusan and the newly organized Provinces of Bukidnon, Cotabato, Davao, Lanao, Sulu, and Zamboanga — 385,000.00

For superintendence, maintenance, and other expense of primary schools, including educational work among the adults in elementary civics, agriculture, and household industries — 225,000.00

For superintendence, maintenance, and other expense of dispensary stations, public hospitals and health service — 174,121.00

For the construction and improvement of trails, roads, and bridges; for the extension of telephone lines; for cleaning navigable rivers and channels in Agusan and Zamboanga provinces; for public buildings and parks; for aid to cadastral surveys in Zamboanga Province; and for the purchase of a launch for official service on Lake Lanao — 435,000.00

For the installation and operation of small radio stations, telegraph lines, marine cables, and other extensions of the Insular telegraph service, to be expended by the Director of Posts under the supervision of the Secretary of Commerce and Police — 32,890.00

Total of appropriations by this Act — 1,458,491.00

SECTION 2. The unexpended and unappropriated balances of funds pertaining to the treasury of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu and the provinces thereof on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, shall be available for reappropriation by the administrative council and the provincial boards subject to the supervision of the Philippine Commission and the department governor, respectively, as provided by Act Numbered Twenty-four hundred and eight.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, December 23, 1915.