Appropriation of Additional Funds for the Necessary Expenses of the Government of the Philippine Islands for 1926

December 7, 1925

ACT NO. 3260

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THE NECESSARY EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not appropriated for other purposes, to supplement certain expenses of the service of the Philippine Government during the fiscal year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-six:

(a)	Per diems of the members of the Senate Committees
	created by resolution of the Senate or of both Houses
	of the Legislature, acting during the recess of the same,
	at the rate of ten pesos for each session attended: Provided.
	That no member other than the chairman of the Committee
	on Accounts shall be paid such per diems unless he shall
	attend the sessions of the Committee concerned or unless
	such Committee shall designate him to render outside of
	his district services related with the work of such Committee,
	in which case the member so designated shall be entitled
	to the payment of ten pesos for each day of work actually
	performed in the discharge of his duties	P10,000.00
(b)	Per diems of the members of the House Committees
	created by resolution of the House or of both Houses
	of the Legislature, acting during the recess of the same,
	at the rate of ten pesos for each session attended: Provided,
	That no member other than the chairman of the Committee
	on Accounts shall be paid such per diems unless he shall
	attend the sessions of the Committee concerned or unless
	such Committee shall designate him to render outside of
	his district services related with the work of such Committee,
	in which case the member so designated shall be entitled
	to the payment of ten pesos for each day of work actually
	performed in the discharged of his duties	P30,000.00
(c)	Additional Insular contribution to the expenses of the City
	of Baguio	P25,000.00
(d)	Additional appropriation of P2,000 hereby authorized for
	traveling expenses of the personnel of the Bureau of Audits,
	to be taken from any sum appropriated or that may hereafter
	be appropriated for the consumption of supplies and materials
	of said Bureau.
(e)	Additional compensation of the chief of the fiber division and
	chief fiber inspector of the Bureau of Agriculture	P500.00
(f)	Additional appropriation to allow the contract for the entire
	year nineteen hundred and twenty-six of the present incumbent
	of the position of chief of the division of investigation of the
	Bureau of Forestry	P1,000.00
(g)	Additional appropriation to allow the contract for the entire
	year nineteen hundred and twenty-six of the present incumbent
	of the position of bacteriologist in the division of biology of
	the Bureau of Science	1,500.00
(h)	Additional appropriation to allow the contract for the entire
	year nineteen hundred and twenty-six of the present incumbent
	of the position of chief of the division of organic chemistry of
	the Bureau of Science	P1,000.00
(i)	Additional appropriation to allow the contract for the entire
	year nineteen hundred and twenty-six of the present incumbent
	of the position of mycologist in the division of botany of the
	Bureau of Science	1,500.00
(j)	Additional appropriation to allow the contract for the entire
	year nineteen hundred and twenty-six of the present incumbent
	of the position of architect in the division of architecture of
	the Bureau of Public Works	1,000.00
(k)	Appropriation in addition to the P1,500 authorized or that
	may be authorized to allow the contract, at P12,000 per annum,
	for the entire year nineteen hundred and twenty-six, of an
	engineer at present holding the office of designing engineer
	in the designing division of the Bureau of Public Works	4,500.00
(l)	Additional appropriation to allow the contract for the entire
	year nineteen hundred and twenty-six of two engineers at
	present holding the positions of designing engineers in the
	designing division of the Bureau of Public Works	3,000.00
(m)	Additional appropriation to allow the contract for the entire
	year nineteen hundred and twenty-six of the present incumbent
	of the position of mechanical and electrical engineer in the
	designing division of the Bureau of Public Works	1,500.00
(n)	Salary of one mechanical and electrical engineer
	in the designing division of the Bureau of Public Works	4,500.00
(o)	Additional appropriation to allow the contract for the entire
	year nineteen hundred and twenty-six of the present incumbent
	of the position of constructing engineer in the constructing
	division of the Bureau of Public Works	1,000.00
(p)	Additional appropriation to allow the contract for the entire
	year nineteen hundred and twenty-six of the present incumbent
	of the position of designing engineer in the irrigation division
	of the Bureau of Public Works	1,000.00
(q)	Additional appropriations for the salaries authorized or that
	may be authorized for the following employees of the Office
	of the Private School Commissioner: For one general
	supervisor, P1,000; for one assistant general supervisor,
	P400; for one second assistant general supervisor, P600;
	for one third general supervisor, P400 ; for one fourth general
	supervisor, P600	3,000.00
(r)	Additional appropriations for the salaries authorized or that
	may be authorized for the following employees in the Bureau
	of Lands: For twenty junior computers in the division of
	surveys, P2,400; for the chief of the law division, P500	2,900.00
(s)	Appropriation for ten junior surveyors in the Bureau of Lands	6,000.00
(t)	Appropriation for salaries, miscellaneous expenses, and
	equipment, to be allotted by the Secretary of Finance, for a
	customs office in the port of Davao	20,000.00
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	Total of appropriations made in this Act	118,900.00
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SECTION 2. Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the Director of Public Works is hereby authorized to pay out of the funds for public works projects: (a) a compensation of not more than three pesos per hour of actual service, not exceeding ten hours daily, to the pile-driver superintendent of the piers, until August thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, only, and (b) a salary of not more than seven thousand pesos per annum to one engineer of the constructing division in charge of the construction of the building for the Legislature, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six, only. EAHcCT

SECTION 3. Any sum appropriated or that may be appropriated for the year nineteen hundred and twenty-six for the repair of certain coastguard cutters of the Bureau of Commerce and Industry may, if necessary, be expended for the repair of any other coastguard cutter or cutters of said Bureau, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications.

SECTION 4. Any appropriation authorized or which may be authorized by law for contracting an employee at a salary greater than the regular compensation assigned to his position shall be considered as valid solely and exclusively for the employee holding such position at the time the budget recommending such additional compensation is submitted to the Legislature, and shall not be used hereafter for the payment in the future of any person succeeding him in said office after said date.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-six.

Approved, December 7, 1925, with the exception of section four which has been vetoed.