An Act Making Appropriations for Sundry Expenses of the Provincial Governments of Agusan, Nueva Vizcaya, and the Mountain Province, for the Period Ending June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Ten, and Thereafter

April 13, 1909

ACT NO. 1883

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY EXPENSES OF THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS OF AGUSAN, NUEVA VIZCAYA, AND THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, FOR THE PERIOD ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TEN, AND THEREAFTER

SECTION 1. The following sums, 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, Nueva Vizcaya, and the Mountain Province, for the period ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and thereafter until expended:

PROVINCE OF AGUSAN

For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant governor for the subprovince of Bukidnon, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; assistant to provincial governor at Bunawan, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; assistant to provincial governor for western Bukidnon, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; assistant to provincial governor in the Umayam district, at two hundred and eighty pesos per annum, in addition to his salary as a Constabulary officer; for per diems of the third member of the provincial board; for two-eighths of the salary of the fiscal for the district of Agusan, Misamis, and Surigao, two-eighths of the salary of the clerk to said fiscal, two-eighths of the salary of the district health officer, and for a proportionate part of the salaries of clerks to the district auditor; 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 and permanent equipment; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance of official transportation; alteration, maintenance and repair of provincial buildings; rents; construction, maintenance and repair of bridges, roads, and trails, and removal of obstructions in rivers; equipment and maintenance of telephone lines; maintenance of public animals, including breeding animals loaned by the Bureau of Agriculture; court expenses; subsistence of prisoners; sanitary and burial fund for indigent persons; for the construction of a provincial government building, at a cost not to exceed twenty thousand pesos: Provided, however, That no part of this amount shall be expended on said building without the approval of the Governor-General first had; 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; sixty thousand one hundred and seventy 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. ASEcHI

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; district health officer, at three thousand six 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 and permanent equipment; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance of official transportation; alteration, maintenance and repair of provincial buildings; rents; for the maintenance of the Padre Juan Villaverde trail from San Nicolas, Pangasinan, to Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, and for the construction, maintenance and repair of other roads, bridges and trails, and removal of obstructions in rivers; equipment and maintenance of telephone lines; maintenance of public animals, including breeding animals loaned by the Bureau of Agriculture; 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-nine thousand five hundred and fourteen pesos.

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE

For salaries and wages, 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 Benguet, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Amburayan, at two thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Apayao, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Bontoc, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Kalinga, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Ifugao, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; for a proportionate part of the salaries of clerks to the district auditor; 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 and permanent equipment; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance of official transportation; alteration, maintenance and repair of provincial buildings, rents; construction, maintenance and repair of bridges, roads, and trails, and removal of obstructions in rivers; equipment and maintenance of telephone lines; maintenance of public animals, including breeding animals loaned by the Bureau of Agriculture; 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; ninety-three thousand one hundred and sixty pesos.

MISCELLANEOUS

For a special fund to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior for such purposes as may be considered necessary in establishing and promoting friendly relations with non-Christian tribes and suppressing head-hunting, six thousand pesos.

For the construction of school buildings and the establishment and maintenance of educational work, including subsistence and clothing of pupils in industrial schools, to be expended in the Mountain Province and in the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya in the discretion of the Secretary of Public Instruction, seventy-five thousand pesos.

Total of appropriations for all purposes: Two hundred and sixty-three thousand eight hundred and forty-four 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: April 13, 1909.