An Act to Provide for an Exposition of Philippine Products in the City of Manila, in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen

February 6, 1913

ACT NO. 2224

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR AN EXPOSITION OF PHILIPPINE PRODUCTS IN THE CITY OF MANILA, IN THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN

SECTION 1. There shall be held in the city of Manila, in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, at a date to be fixed by the board of directors hereinafter provided for an exposition of Philippine products, which shall be known as the Philippine Exposition, to which the provinces and others shall be invited to send exhibits showing their products, industries, and resources.

SECTION 2. This exposition shall be under the direction and control of a board of directors; to be known as the Philippine Exposition Board, and which shall be composed of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, who shall be the president; the chairman of the Committee on Industry and Commerce of the Philippine Assembly, who shall be the vice-president; and three members who shall be appointed by the Governor-General. Of the members appointed by the Governor-General, one shall be a member of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and another a member of the Manila Merchants' Association.

The board of directors shall serve as such without pay and shall charge of the assembling and display of exhibits received and the expenditure of the funds appropriated for the purposes of the Philippine Exposition. It shall appoint such subordinate officers and employees as may be necessary and fix the salaries thereof: Provided, That the total expenditures for salaries shall not exceed six thousand pesos in any one year: Provided further, That if requested by the president of the Board, the Governor-General may detail such officers and employees of the Insular, provincial and municipal governments, or of the city of Manila, as may be considered necessary, who shall serve without additional compensation.

SECTION 3. The aforesaid board of directors shall present to the Philippine Legislature a detailed report of its work specifying the disbursements made and the condition of its fund and accounts, within the first fifteen days of the general legislative session immediately following the close of the exposition.

SECTION 4. The said board of directors is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to purchase the most desirable articles exhibited or offered for exhibition, and to retain the same for the purpose of developing the existing Philippine Museum.

SECTION 5. Any and all amounts received from the granting of concessions or the sale of privileges shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation appropriated for the purposes of this Act and shall be available for expenditure in the same manner as the original appropriation: Provided, That no admission or entrance fee shall be charged to any building in which is exhibited any Insular, provincial or municipal exhibit.

SECTION 6. Provincial and municipal governments are hereby authorized to appropriate moneys from their respective general funds, to be deposited with the provincial treasurer to the credit of a special fund to be known as the "provincial exhibition fund." Such fund shall be subject to the control of the provincial board and shall be utilized in its discretion for local provincial expositions or to enable the province to make a creditable exhibit at the Philippine Exposition hereinbefore provided for, or both.

SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, February 6, 1913.