An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the Provinces of Agusan, Nueva Vizcaya, the Mountain Province, and the Moro Province

November 19, 1912

ACT NO. 2194

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC WORKS AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PROVINCES OF AGUSAN, NUEVA VIZCAYA, THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, AND THE MORO PROVINCE

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, for public works and permanent improvements in the Provinces of Agusan, Nueva Vizcaya, the Mountain Province, and the Moro Province.

Province of Agusan

For the construction of roads, trails, and bridges, for removing obstructions in river channels, for the construction of a provincial jail at Butuan, for the construction of a provincial machine shop at Butuan, for land transportation equipment, for the purchase of plows, for the purchase of work animals, for the erection of a house for the assistant to the provincial governor, a storehouse for use by the provincial government, the Bureau of Constabulary, and the Bureau of Education, and houses for clerks and guards, and for the purchase of a launch, forty-two thousand nine hundred pesos.

Province of Nueva Vizcaya

For the construction of roads, trails, and bridges, including the completion of nineteen kilometers of dirt road on the Bagabag-Isabela Road, for the construction of telephone lines, and for permanent equipment, forty-three thousand one hundred pesos.

Mountain Province

For the improvement of the Naguilian Road, nineteen thousand five hundred pesos.

Department of Commerce and Police

For the drilling of artesian wells and to obtain water by other means, including the cost of new equipment and pumping plants, when necessary, and for the construction of irrigation works, to be allowed in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, twenty thousand pesos.

Bureau of Public Works

For the maintenance of the Benguet Road, eighty thousand pesos; for the construction and improvement of septic vaults, drains, and other sanitary works in Baguio, ten thousand pesos.

In all, for the Bureau of Public Works, ninety thousand pesos.

Bureau of Constabulary

For the completion of the barracks at Bontoc and the construction of a storehouse at Baguio, to be alloted in the descretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, fourteen thousand pesos.

Bureau of Health

For the construction at Bontoc of nurses' quarters, storeroom, laundry and woodshed, septic vault; for the completion of operating room; for equipment of nurses' quarters; for equipment of laundry; and for necessary plumbing; fourteen thousand pesos.

Bureau of Education

For construction of buildings and other improvements at the Teachers' Camp at Baguio, fifty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty pesos; for aid in the construction of school buildings in the Mountain Province, and in the Provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Agusan, to be alloted in the discretion of the Secretary of Public Instruction, sixty thousand pesos. DHIcET

In all, for the Bureau of Education, one hundred and thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty pesos.

Bureau of Forestry

For the construction of ranger's quarters and laborer's quarters at Baguio, four thousand fifty pesos.

Total appropriations for all purposes, three hundred and sixty-one thousand three hundred pesos.

The unexpected balance of the five thousand pesos appropriated by Act Numbered Two thousand and seventy, for the construction of a telephone line in the Province of Agusan, from Butuan to Waloe, is hereby made available for the construction of telephone lines in the Province of Agusan.

The unexpended balance of the funds appropriated by Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and eighty-eight for the construction and restoration of the irrigation plant at Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, is hereby made available for the construction of the irrigation plant at Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya.

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, November 19, 1912.