An Act Making Appropriations for Sundry Expenses of the Municipal Government of the City of Manila for the Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Six and Other Designated Periods

December 15, 1905

ACT NO. 1421

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY EXPENSES OF THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF MANILA FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SIX 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 part compensation for the service of the municipal government of the city of Manila for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and thereafter until expended, unless otherwise stated:

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Total of appropriations for all purposes, four million five hundred and sixty-nine thousand six hundred and eighty-three pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That each chief of department or office shall certify to the Auditor the amount of his outstanding obligations on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five and prior fiscal years, and the Auditor shall transfer from the appropriations standing on his books, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, to the current appropriation accounts, such portion of the said fiscal year appropriations as may be necessary to meet such outstanding liabilities in whole or in part, as the same may be available. In case there is a surplus in the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five appropriation accounts of any department or office above the amount required for such outstanding liabilities of such fiscal year and prior years, said surplus shall be transferred to the funds in the Treasury available for appropriation: And provided further, That inter-departmental transfers of property not otherwise provided for may be made by purchase or otherwise with the approval of the Municipal Board.

SECTION 2. Upon the approval of the Municipal Board first had, a vacancy in a position of any class may be filled by the appointment of one person or more of a lower class: Provided, That the aggregate of salaries paid is not greater than the salary authorized by law for that position.

SECTION 3. In all cases in which provision for a position or employment heretofore provided by law is not made by this Act, such position or employment is hereby authorized from July first, nineteen hundred and five, until not later than December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and five, and any funds appropriated for salaries and wages for the department or office to which the position or employment pertains are hereby made available for payment of the services rendered.

SECTION 4. No position or employment authorized by this Act the compensation of which is not stated at a per annum rate shall be subject to the provisions of the Civil Service Act and Rules as amended, and no privilege of the classified service shall accrue to appointees to such positions: Provided, That all appointments and separations above the grade of semiskilled laborer, under the provisions of this section, shall be reported to the Bureau of Civil Service by the proper chief of department or office, in case of discharge, stating reasons therefor: And provided further, That unless otherwise authorized by law, no payment may be made for overtime work.

SECTION 5. All balances remaining unexpended when any public works or permanent improvements appropriated for by this Act are completed and accounts settled shall be returned at once to the Treasury of the Philippine Islands and shall not thereafter be available for withdrawal or disbursement under this Act.

SECTION 6. The provisions of the first paragraph of section three of Act Numbered Eight hundred and seven, providing the manner in which withdrawals of moneys appropriated in said Act shall be made, are hereby made applicable to the withdrawal of money appropriated under this Act.

SECTION 7. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this appropriation 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 8. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, December 15, 1905.