An Act Making Appropriations for Sundry Expenses of the Provincial Governments of Agusan, Benguet, Lepanto-Bontoc, Nueva Vizcaya, and the Mountain Province, for the Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Nine

August 21, 1908

ACT NO. 1877

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY EXPENSES OF THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS OF AGUSAN, BENGUET, LEPANTO-BONTOC, NUEVA VIZCAYA, AND THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINE

SECTION 1. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in part compensation for the service of the provincial governments of Agusan, Benguet, Lepanto-Bontoc, Nueva Vizcaya, and the Mountain Province, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and thereafter until expended:

Provincial Government of Agusan

For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at four thousand pesos per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor for the subprovince of Bukidnon, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; for per diems of the third member of the provincial board, and for salaries and wages of such employees as may be authorized by resolution of the provincial board, with the approval of the Executive Secretary; for general provincial expenses, including the actual and necessary traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees, under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six; for the transportation of supplies; for the purchase of office furniture and supplies; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance of official transportation; repairs to buildings owned by the provincial government; rents; maintenance and repair of bridges, roads, and trails, and removal of obstructions in rivers; court expenses; subsistence of prisoners; for a fund to be expended by the provincial governor in the manner funds are provided to be expended by Act Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two, under the head of "Provincial government of Lepanto-Bontoc;" and other incidental expenses: twenty-eight thousand seven hundred pesos: Provided, That the provisions of sections two and three of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and forty-five are hereby extended to and made applicable to the third member of the provincial board of the Province of Agusan, but all resolutions of the provincial board fixing the per diems to be paid such third member shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. ETHIDa

Provincial Government of Benguet

For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at four thousand pesos per annum, from July first, nineteen hundred and eight, to March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and nine; lieutenant-governor, subprovince of Benguet, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum, from March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine; provincial treasurer, at three thousand pesos per annum, from July first, nineteen hundred and eight, to March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and nine; for salaries and wages of such employees as may be authorized by resolution of the provincial board, with the approval of the Executive Secretary; for general provincial expenses, including actual and necessary traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees, under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six; for the transportation of supplies; for the purchase of office furniture and supplies; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance of official transportation; repairs to provincial buildings; rents; maintenance and repair of bridges, roads, and trails; court expenses; subsistence of prisoners; sanitary and burial fund for indigent persons; for a fund to be expended by the provincial governor in the manner funds are provided to be expended by Act Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two, under the head of "Provincial government of Lepanto-Bontoc;" and other incidental expenses: twenty-six thousand pesos.

Provincial Government of Lepanto-Bontoc

For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor from July first, nineteen hundred and eight, to September fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer, from July first, nineteen hundred and eight, to September fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; provincial supervisor, from July first, nineteen hundred and eight, to September fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, at three thousand pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor for the subprovince of Kalinga, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor for the subprovince of Bontoc, at three thousand pesos per annum from July first, nineteen hundred and eight, to September fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, and at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum from September sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine; lieutenant-governor for the subprovince of Amburayan, at two thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; for salaries and wages of such employees as may be authorized by resolution of the provincial board, with the approval of the Executive Secretary; for general provincial expenses including the actual and necessary traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees, under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six; for the transportation of supplies; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance of public animals, including breeding animals loaned by the Bureau of Agriculture; repairs to provincial buildings; rents; maintenance and repair of bridges, roads, and trails; court expenses; subsistence of prisoners; for a fund to be expended by the provincial governor in the manner funds are provided to be expended by Act Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two, under the head of "Provincial government of Lepanto-Bontoc;" and other incidental expenses: nineteen thousand eight hundred and ten pesos. cSEDTC

Provincial Government of Nueva Vizcaya

For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; for salaries and wages of such employees as may be authorized by resolution of the provincial board, with the approval of the Executive Secretary; for general provincial expenses including the actual and necessary traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees, under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six; for the transportation of supplies, for the purchase of office furniture and supplies; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; rents; court expenses; subsistence of prisoners; for the maintenance of the Padre Juan Villaverde trail, from San Nicolas, Pangasinan, to Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya; for expenses incident to taking a census of the province; for a fund to be expended by the provincial governor in the manner funds are provided to be expended by Act Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two, under the head of "Provincial government of Lepanto-Bontoc;" and other incidental expenses: nineteen thousand five hundred pesos.

Provincial Government of the Mountain Province.

For salaries, for the period from September sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, including salary of provincial governor, at six thousand pesos per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer, at five thousand pesos per annum; provincial supervisor, at four thousand pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Lepanto, at three thousand pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Ifugao, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Apayao, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; for salaries and wages of such employees as may be authorized by resolution of the provincial board, with the approval of the Executive Secretary; for general provincial expenses, including the actual and necessary traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees, under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six; for the purchase of office furniture and supplies; for the transportation of supplies, including the transfer of office equipment and records from Benguet to Bontoc; for a fund to be expended by the provincial governor, or his representative, in the manner funds are provided to be expended by Act Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two, under the head of "Provincial government of Lepanto-Bontoc;" and other incidental expenses: twenty-eight thousand pesos.

Total of appropriations for all purposes: one hundred and twenty-two thousand and ten 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. SDAaTC

ENACTED, August 21, 1908.