An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the Mountain Province and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya
Act No. 1961, enacted on July 28, 1909, appropriates funds for public works and permanent improvements in the Mountain Province, Agusan, and Nueva Vizcaya. It allocates specific amounts for road construction, high school building, and various school facilities, totaling eighty-nine thousand pesos. The Act mandates that buildings be constructed on land owned by the municipality or donated for public use, with titles registered in the Court of Land Registration. Construction plans and execution must follow regulations set by the Secretary of Public Instruction, and the Act emphasizes the urgency of its passage for public benefit.
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- What is An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the Mountain Province and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya about?
- Act No. 1961, enacted on July 28, 1909, appropriates funds for public works and permanent improvements in the Mountain Province, Agusan, and Nueva Vizcaya. It allocates specific amounts for road construction, high school building, and various school facilities, totaling eighty-nine thousand pesos. The Act mandates that buildings be constructed on land owned by the municipality or donated for public use, with titles registered in the Court of Land Registration. Construction plans and execution must follow regulations set by the Secretary of Public Instruction, and the Act emphasizes the urgency of its passage for public benefit.
- What type of law is Act No. 1961?
- An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the Mountain Province and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya (Act No. 1961) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
- When was An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the Mountain Province and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya enacted?
- An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the Mountain Province and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya (Act No. 1961) was enacted on Jul 28, 1909.
- What is the citation for An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the Mountain Province and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya?
- An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the Mountain Province and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya, Act No. 1961, Jul 28, 1909 (Philippines)
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Full Law Text
July 28, 1909
ACT NO. 1961
AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC WORKS AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE AND THE PROVINCES OF AGUSAN AND NUEVA VIZCAYA
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, in compensation for certain public works and permanent improvements.
For the construction of a road from Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya, extending toward Cordon, Isabela, as far as the Isabela boundary, fifty thousand pesos.
For aid in the construction of high school building at Bayombong, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, four thousand pesos; for completing the buildings of the Industrial School at Malaybalay, Bukidnon, Province of Agusan, three thousand pesos; for the construction, repair, and transfer of school buildings; for hardware and accessories; for remodeling and completing buildings in the Mountain Province; to be alloted in the discretion of the Secretary of Public Instruction; thirty-two thousand pesos. The buildings constructed under this Act shall be erected only upon lands of the exclusive ownership of the township or municipality, or which shall be donated for such end. The title must in each case be registered in the Court of Land Registration, but the Secretary of Public Instruction may authorize the beginning of the construction work upon the filing of application for registration in the said Court of Land Registration. The drawing up of the plans and specifications and the execution of the work shall be carried out in accordance with rules and regulations which shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Public Instruction.
Total appropriations for all purposes, eighty-nine thousand pesos.
SECTION 2. 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 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
ENACTED: July 28, 1909.
Cite This Law
An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the Mountain Province and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya, Act No. 1961, Jul 28, 1909 (Philippines)
An Act Making Appropriations for Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the Mountain Province and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya, Act No. 1961 (Phil. 1909)
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