November 1, 1945

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 718

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF TWO MILLION NINE HUNDRED FORTY-ONE THOUSAND PESOS FROM THE COCONUT OIL EXCISE TAX FUND COLLECTED ON AND AFTER JANUARY FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINE, FOR CERTAIN ACTIVITIES UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated for the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, out of the collections that accrued and shall accrue to the Coconut Oil Excise Tax Fund in the Philippines Treasury on and after January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, for the purposes hereunder specified, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and forty-six:

(a)	Appropriation to continue the agronomical
	survey of the Philippines in accordance
	with the provisions of Commonwealth
	Act No. 418	P168,800.00
(b)	Appropriation for the establishment,
	improvement, development, maintenance,
	and operation of agricultural experiment
	and demonstration stations under the
	provisions of section 1754 of the Administrative
	Code	400,000.00
(c)	Appropriation to continue the
	reforestation and afforestation of
	watersheds, denuded areas, and
	cogon or open lands within forest
	reserves, communal forests, National
	Parks, and timberlands, sand dunes,
	and such other areas already certified
	as public forest lands, in accordance
	with the provisions of Commonwealth
	Act No. 304	540,000.00
(d)	Appropriation to continue the
	classification, survey and subdivision of
	agricultural lands of the public domain
	especially those lying along the National
	highways, the sum of P170,000 to be
	spent by the Bureau of Forestry in
	accordance with Commonwealth Act
	No. 627 and the sum of P1,180,000 to
	be spent by the Bureau of Lands in
	accordance with the said Commonwealth
	Act 627 and Commonwealth Act 630	P1,350,000.00
(e)	For the organization, maintenance and
	operation of a School of Fisheries
	under the Division of Fisheries	333,000.00
(f)	For the creation of a special fund to
	be known as the "Cinchona Plantation
	Revolving Fund" for the establishment,
	cultivation, development, maintenance,
	and operation of cinchona plantations in
	public forest lands to be administered by
	the Bureau of Forestry	150,000.00

 

SECTION 2. So much of the funds herein appropriated as may not be covered by the excess in the sums appropriated in the General Appropriation Law for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and forty-six from the Coconut Oil Excise Tax Fund shall not be released unless and until the Secretary of Finance and the Auditor General shall have certified that there are existing and available amounts from the latter fund.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: November 1, 1845