An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works

March 19, 1923

ACT NO. 3113

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC WORKS

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, to be at the disposal of the Director of Public Works for the purposes mentioned hereunder, subject to the provisions hereinafter set forth.

COMPLETION AND MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND OTHER UNCLASSIFIED PROJECTS

 

(a)	For the purchase and construction of masts and towers for
	radio stations	P30,000.00
(b)	For the maintenance, alteration, improvement, and repair of
	public buildings, including adjacent lands belonging to the same	400,000.00
	Provided, however, That a sum not to exceed P7,600 shall be
	set aside out of this item as reimbursement to the lessee of the
	Sisiman Slaughterhouse for expenses incurred by him during
	the year 1922 for the alteration and improvement of the water
	system of the slaughterhouse and the stockyards at Sisiman,
	Mariveles, Bataan, and for the payment of the surcharge of
	the Bureau of Public Works.
	Provided, further, That there shall be set aside a sum not to
	exceed P13,000 for the completion of the chemical laboratory
	of the University of the Philippines.
(c)	(1)	For the completion and extension of and grounds for
		normal and vocational schools	250,000.00
	(2)	For aid to regularly organized municipalities for the
		construction, completion, or repair of elementary schools	200,000.00
	(3)	For the purchase of land for school purposes and
		construction of school buildings in specially
		organized provinces	50,000.00
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		Total available for the construction, completion, and
		maintenance of public buildings and other
		unclassified projects	930,000.00
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CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF ROADS AND BRIDGES

 

(d)	For the maintenance and improvement of the Benguet and
	Naguilian Roads and the road from Camp One to Damortis	130,000.00
(e)	For the maintenance, reconstruction, and improvement of trails,
	roads, and bridges in such specially organized provinces as
	shall comply with the provisions of section 2115 of Act No.
	2711 and 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 judgment of the Director of Public Works
	on all trails, roads, and bridges now constructed or which
	may be constructed in the future	150,000.00
(f)	For the maintenance, reconstruction, improvement, and, where
	practicable, for the construction of roads and bridges in such
	regularly organized provinces as shall comply with the provisions
	of section 2113 of Act No. 2711 and which, by 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 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; to be
	allotted in proportion to the number of cedulas sold in
	each province in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-two	850,000.00
(g)	For the maintenance, reconstruction, and improvement of
	the Manila North and South Roads traversing the Province
	of Rizal, parts of Bulacan, Laguna, La Union, and Nueva Ecija,
	including a portion of the Manila-Tarlac Road, the
	Zapote-Cavite Road, Province of Cavite, and the
	Pamplona-Pasacao Road, Province of Camarines Sur;
	the Bangui-Claveria trail, Province of Ilocos Norte;
	the Tagudin-Cervantes trail, Province of Ilocos Sur;
	and the San Jose-Santa Fe Road, Province of Nueva Ecija	300,000.00
(h)	For the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of
	roads and bridges in such regularly organized provinces as
	shall comply with the provisions of section 2113 of Act
	No. 2711 and which, by 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 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	950,000.00
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		Total available for the construction and maintenance
		of roads and bridges	2,380,000.00
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MAINTENANCE AND INVESTIGATION OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMS

 

(i)	For the preliminary investigation and survey of irrigation
	systems, hydraulic power development and river control
	projects, for the survey of streams; for the construction
	of municipal irrigation systems, and for the operation,
	maintenance, and repair of irrigation systems	P200,000.00
(j)	For expenses of investigation of applications for the use
	of water for irrigation, water supply, and power systems;
	and for the adjudication of the rights to streams designated
	by the Secretary of Commerce and Communications	40,000.00
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		Total available for the maintenance and investigation
		of irrigation systems	240,000.00
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CONSTRUCTION OF ARTESIAN WELLS AND WATERWORKS

 

(k)	For drilling of artesian wells by the Bureau of Public Works,
	including the purchase of necessary equipment, and for
	the investigation and construction of Insular, provincial,
	and municipal waterworks, whenever, in cases of provincial
	and municipal projects, the provinces and municipalities
	concerned shall adopt resolutions for the appropriation
	of funds covering the cost of one-third of the work	500,000.00
	Provided, That the funds appropriated by provinces and
	municipalities to cover the cost of one-third of the work shall
	be paid into the Insular Treasury when the Director of Public
	Works shall have paid the cost 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: Provided finally, That the amount allotted
	out of this appropriation to a municipality or province as
	Insular aid shall in no case exceed at one time the sum of
	twenty thousand pesos.	––––––––––––
	Total available for the construction of artesian wells
	and waterworks	500,000.00
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PORT AND RIVER IMPROVEMENTS

 

(l)	For the maintenance, reconstruction, completion, and
	improvement of wharves and piers and dredging in the
	specially organized provinces	P80,000.00
(m)	For the construction, completion, and maintenance of wharves,
	piers, retaining walls, and other works necessary for the
	regulation of rivers or the sea; the investigation of the
	condition of the bottom of ports and rivers; the purchase,
	maintenance, and repair of equipment for port works, and
	dredging of harbors in the various districts of the Archipelago	1,000,000.00
	Provided, That subject to the approval of the Secretary of
	Commerce and Communications and with such security as he
	may require, material derived from dredging may be used for
	filling in private property at the request of any landowner, upon
	the condition that the cost thereof shall be paid by the owner
	of the land in annual installments not to extend over more
	than five years: And provided further, That claims for
	damages due to marine accidents incidental to the operation
	of port equipment may be paid subject to like approval. The
	total of such payments out of funds appropriated by this
	subsection shall not exceed ten thousand pesos.	–––––––––––
	Total available for port and river improvements	1,080,000.00
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RECONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, AND CONSTRUCTION OF TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE LINES, CABLES, AND RADIOS

 

(n)	For the maintenance, construction, reconstruction, and repair
	of cable, telegraph and telephone lines	250,200.00
(o)	For the purchase and installation of apparatus, machinery,
	and wiring in radio stations	123,800.00
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		Total available for the reconstruction, maintenance, and
		construction of telegraph and telephone lines, cables,
		and radios	374,000.00
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RECONSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE, AND CONSTRUCTION OF LIGHTHOUSES, BUOYS, AND BEACONS

 

(p)	For the maintenance, reconstruction, construction, and repair of
	lighthouses, buoys, and beacons, and for necessary repairs
	to mechanical equipment of lighthouses and other equipment	P120,000.00
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	Total available for the reconstruction, maintenance, and
	construction of lighthouses, buoys, and beacons	120,000.00
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	Grand total of the appropriations made in this Act — Five
	million, six hundred and twenty-four thousand pesos	5,624,000.00
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SECTION 2. All balances of the several appropriations made by this Act the destination of which has not yet been determined by the proper authority on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and all balances of appropriations which remain unexpended on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-five, shall revert to the unappropriated funds in the Insular Treasury, and thereafter shall not be available for expenditure except upon appropriation by the Legislature. ISaTCD

SECTION 3. The sums appropriated in subsections (a), (d), (f), (j), and (p) of this Act shall be available for immediate expenditure by the Director of Public Works, but those of appropriated in the other paragraphs shall be distributed in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications, subject to the approval of a joint committee elected by the Senate and the House of Representatives: Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce and Communications, with the approval of said joint committee, may, for the purposes of said distribution, transfer unexpended portions of any item of appropriation under this Act to any other item hereunder.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March 19, 1923.