Appropriating P4,756,780 for the Reconstruction, Repairs and Maintenance of Radio Stations and Installations

November 1, 1945

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 712

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FOUR MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY-SIX THOUSAND AND SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY PESOS FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION, REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE OF RADIO STATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS, AND TELEGRAPH LINES AND STATIONS

SECTION 1. The following sums or so much thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated out of the general funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be spent subject to the provisions hereinafter set forth, for the purposes specified hereunder: AEHTIC

(a) For the replacement of totally destroyed, and for the reconstruction and repairs of partially-damaged radio stations and installations, including maintenance and operation thereof in the following places:

1.	Manila	P210,950.00
2.	Basco	95,500.00
3.	Vigan	22,550.00
4.	Bontoc	56,750.00
5.	Calapan	97,300.00
6.	Boac and Sta. Cruz	30,000.00
7.	Daet	57,550.00
8.	Legaspi	73,780.00
9.	Masbate	67,500.00
10.	Catbalogan	96,750.00
11.	Tacloban and Maripipi, Leyte	113,780.00
12.	Romblon	56,750.00
13.	Pandan-Panganiban, Catanduanes	18,000.00
14.	Cebu	132,750.00
15.	Iloilo	118,750.00
16.	Tagbilaran	25,750.00
17.	Dumaguete	63,800.00
18.	Bacolod	63,800.00
19.	Puerto Princesa	70,750.00
20.	Surigao	57,800.00
21.	Butuan	54,800.00
22.	Malaybalay	18,700.00
23.	Cagayan	57,800.00
24.	Oroquieta	21,750.00
25.	Dansalan	57,800.00
26.	Cotabato	54,800.00
27.	Davao	114,180.00
28.	Zamboanga	109,780.00
29.	Jolo	39,750.00
30.	Cuyo	28,500.00
31.	Borongan-Balangiga Circuit	100,800.00
32.	Virac	30,500.00
33.	Baler, Polillo, Infanta and Casiguran	55,500.00
34.	San Jose, Mindoro	15,500.00
35.	Culion	30,500.00
36.	Baguio	84,800.00
37.	Aparri	67,800.00
38.	For radio apparatus, power plants, accessories
	and spare parts	600,000.00
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	Total	P3,073,820.00
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(b) For the reconstruction of telegraph lines and re-establishment of necessary stations, including maintenance and operation thereof, in the following places:

1.	Dagupan-Laoag Circuit	P228,883.00
2.	Vigan-Bangued Circuit	52,172.00
3.	Cabanatuan-Aparri Circuit	360,153.00
4.	Lucena-Sorsogon Circuit	306,299.00
5.	Tacloban-Baybay Circuit	95,929.00
6.	Cebu-Santander Circuit	112,758.00
7.	Cebu-Daanbantayan Circuit	99,295.00
8.	Iloilo-Capiz Circuit	107,709.00
9.	Iloilo-San Jose (Antique) Circuit	82,465.00
10.	Catbalogan-Laoang Circuit	153,149.00
11.	Borongan-Guiuan Circuit	84,148.00
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	Total	P1,682,960.00
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	Total for the appropriation made in this Act:
	Four million seven hundred fifty-six
	thousand and seven hundred eighty pesos	P4,756,780.00
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SECTION 2. The amount appropriated in this Act necessary for the replacement of totally destroyed, and for the construction and repairs of partially damaged, radio station buildings, shall be spent by the Director of Public Works, and the amount necessary for the reconstruction re-establishment, and repairs of telegraph lines and radio stations, including maintenance and operation thereof shall be spent by the Director of Posts.

SECTION 3. All balances of the appropriation made in this Act remaining unexpended on June thirty, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, shall revert to the National Treasury, and thereafter they shall not be available for expenditure, except upon appropriation by the Congress of the Philippines.

SECTION 4. The sums appropriated in this Act shall, upon the recommendation of the Director of Posts, be distributed by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications.

SECTION 5. The funds herein appropriated shall not be released unless and until the Secretary of Finance and the Auditor General shall have certified to the President that there are existing and available funds in the National Treasury in excess of the sums appropriated in the General Appropriation Law for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and any other appropriations for which by law priorities have been established.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, November 1, 1945.