An Act Providing for the Establishment of a Sanitarium at Sibul, San Miguel de Mayumo, Province of Bulacan, and for Other Purposes

April 19, 1910

ACT NO. 1981

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SANITARIUM AT SIBUL, SAN MIGUEL DE MAYUMO, PROVINCE OF BULACAN, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. The construction of a sanitarium at Sibul, near the springs of the same name, situate in the municipality of San Miguel de Mayumo, Province of Bulacan, is hereby authorized and directed for the purpose of providing and maintaining an adequate service and to admit and provide accommodations for public officials and private parties. Subject to the recommendations of the committee hereinafter created, and to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the Consulting Architect shall prepare the plans for the said sanitarium and the Director of Health shall select the site of same. ISHCcT

SECTION 2. There shall be at Sibul a resident physician, who shall be appointed by the Governor-General, with the advice and consent of the Philippine Commission, at a salary not exceeding four thousand pesos per annum. The said physician shall, in accordance with the orders and directions of the Director of Health, manage the bathing establishment, give advice, and if necessary, gratuitous attendance to the indigent sick, and have charge of the sanitarium when the same shall be constructed. The said physician shall designate the duties of the employees authorized and see that they properly perform the same and shall have in his charge, besides the sanitarium buildings of Sibul, such furniture, supplies, and other articles as he may receive for use in the said buildings. Pending the establishment at Sibul of a pharmacy, he shall have in his charge the medicines sent him by the Director of Health and shall fill all prescriptions requested to be filled, for which services he shall collect a minimum charge of fifty centavos, and the proceeds from such services and all other funds that he may receive under this Act, shall be covered by him into the Insular Treasury.

SECTION 3. Provision is hereby made for the immediate continuation of the improvements at Sibul, including the straightening out of the esteros, the construction of the central park and of the public lavatory and closet, the opening and construction of streets, and the erection of the pavilion which it is proposed to build at or near the entrance of the bathing establishment. CAacTH

SECTION 4. A committee is hereby created, to be composed of Donato Teodoro, provincial governor of Bulacan; Hugh Redmond, district engineer; Miguel Siojo, municipal president of San Miguel de Mayumo, Province of Bulacan; and two other members appointed by the Governor-General, to make, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the aforesaid improvements and such others as they may deem advisable. All future vacancies in the committee created by this section shall be filled by appointment by the Governor-General. The said committee shall provide the necessary plans for the construction of the buildings referred to in the next preceding section, trace new streets and extend those of the existing streets that it may see fit, all this within the zone heretofore reserved, and in the exchange of lots, opening or widening of streets, agreements with the property owners, and if necessary, expropriations, the said committee may proceed with the same powers and duties, which are hereby expressly conferred upon it, as those vested in the committee created by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-three: Provided, however, That no decision, order, or resolution of any kind of the committee shall take effect and be executed without the express approval of the Governor-General.

SECTION 5. The wagon road connecting the municipality of Baliuag with that of San Miguel, both in the Province of Bulacan, and likewise the wagon road connecting San Miguel de Mayumo and Sibul, are hereby placed under the control of the committee created in the next preceding section, and their construction and maintenance shall be carried on by said committee with the funds appropriated by this Act, provided that the provincial board of Bulacan passes a resolution, approved by the Governor-General, guaranteeing the construction and maintenance of the wagon road connecting the municipality of Baliuag with that of Polo, both in the Province of Bulacan. IAETDc

SECTION 6. The sum of fifty thousand pesos is hereby appropriated out of any Insular funds not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the unexpended balances of the funds appropriated for improvements at Sibul by Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and fifty-four, which shall be added to this appropriation, and the Governor-General is authorized to make provision for the expenditure of the sum of fifty thousand pesos of the funds available and at the disposition of the said Governor-General under the provisions of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and two. Of the total sum of one hundred thousand pesos authorized in this section, sixty thousand pesos shall be set aside for the construction of the Sibul sanitarium, and the remaining forty thousand pesos shall be set aside, in the discretion of the committee, for other improvements that may be planned under this Act. The Director of Health is hereby authorized to charge the expenses connected with the appointment of the physician at Sibul and that of his employees, and with the initial expenses of the installation of the sanitarium, against the contingent expenses of his Bureau.

SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect on its passage, in accordance with the provisions of section one of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and forty-five, entitled "An Act providing the time at which all Acts of the Philippine Legislature shall take effect.

ENACTED, April 19, 1910. DcHSEa