An Act Making Appropriations for Sundry Expenses of the Insular Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Eleven, and Other Designated Periods

April 19, 1910

ACT NO. 1989

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY EXPENSES OF THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, AND OTHER DESIGNATED PERIODS

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 the service of the Insular Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, unless otherwise stated. ITAaHc

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(Items Omitted)

Total of appropriations for all purposes, seventeen million four hundred and twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight pesos.

SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated a sum sufficient for the payment of claims for refunds on fuel imported into the Philippine Islands used for the propulsion of vessels, in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-one of the Philippine Tariff Act, and for the refund of duty paid on articles and materials actually used in the construction, equipment, or repair, within the Philippine Islands, of vessels, their machinery, tackle, or apparel, in accordance with paragraph three hundred and forty-nine, section eleven, of the Philippine Tariff Act. This appropriation shall be continuing and shall remain in force and effect until existing law in the two above-specified cases is repealed or modified.

SECTION 3. The appropriations herein made for each Bureau, province, or Office shall be available for payment of authorized commutations of accrued leaves of absence of the officers and employees thereof, and for payment of such expenses as may accrue to such Bureaus, provinces, or Offices by reason of the operations of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and nine. CHTAIc

SECTION 4. After payment of all obligations actually incurred in the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and prior years, whether or not the supplies have been delivered or services rendered prior to the conclusion of said year, including completion of permanent improvements duly authorized, all balances of appropriations heretofore made for the current expenses of Bureaus and Offices of the Insular Government shall revert to the general fund: Provided, That, subject to approval of the head of the proper Department, chiefs of Bureaus or Offices may expend on permanent improvements funds appropriated for current expenses: And Provided Further, That upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Department concerned, the Governor-General may direct the restoration of any part of the funds hereby reverted to the credit of the Bureau or Office for which such funds were originally appropriated: And Provided Further, That nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent transfer of funds by order of the Governor-General under the provisions of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and two.

SECTION 5. The appropriations for current expenses of the various Bureaus and Offices of the Government shall be available for the payment to the credit of the Fidelity Bond Premium Fund of two-thirds of the premium fixed, in pursuance of section three of Act Numbered Seventeen hundred and thirty-nine, on behalf of Insular officials and employees pertaining to the respective Bureaus and Offices. EATCcI

SECTION 6. Section six of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and fifty-five shall be considered permanent legislation until specifically amended or repealed, and shall apply to any future docks constructed by the Insular Government in the port of Manila.

SECTION 7. The fines imposed and collected through the efforts of the Philippine Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, its members or its agents, for violations of the laws enacted for the prevention of cruelty to animals and for their protection, shall belong to said society and shall be used to promote its objects, the provisions of section five of Act Numbered Twelve hundred and eighty-five to the contrary notwithstanding.

SECTION 8. On and after the date this Act takes effect the salary of the Purchasing Agent shall be twelve thousand pesos per annum, anything in Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and seven to the contrary notwithstanding. This section shall be considered permanent legislation until specifically amended or repealed.

SECTION 9. This Act shall take effect as of date July first, nineteen hundred and ten.

ENACTED, April 19, 1910. DHITCc