Appropriation of Funds for Public Works

June 14, 1947

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 143

AN ACT APPROPRIATING TWENTY-FIVE MILLION PESOS FOR PUBLIC WORKS

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 at the disposal of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications and subject to the provisions hereinafter set forth, for the purposes mentioned hereunder:

 

	A.  MISCELLANEOUS
(a)	For the investigation, survey, construction,
	reconstruction, repair, improvement, extension,
	and completion of public works projects,
	including the purchase of school sites in provinces,
	chartered cities, and municipalities, to be
	distributed among the Representative
	Districts	P12,500,000.00
	B.   PUBLIC BUILDINGS
(b)	For the maintenance, alteration, reconstruction
	and repair of national public buildings and
	monuments, including necessary repairs and
	alterations of private buildings and lots rented
	by the National Government, and upkeep of
	adjacent grounds, and of the mausoleum of
	Filipino heroes and martyrs at the "Cementerio
	del Norte" of the City of Manila, in an amount
	not to exceed P200, including the purchase of
	necessary supplies, materials and
	equipment	3,700,000.00
	C.  HIGHWAYS
(c)	For aid for the construction, repair,
	reconstruction, and improvement of provincial
	and city roads and bridges, including the
	purchase of necessary supplies, materials and
	equipment	500,000.00
	D.  SANITATION
(d)	For the construction, repair or reconstruction
	of national, provincial, city and municipal
	hospitals, dispensaries and maternities	800,000.00
(e)	For aid in the construction, reconstruction,
	repair and improvement of artesian and
	draft-pump wells, reconditioning and/or repair
	of drilling machines, maintenance of well drilling
	tools and equipment, including the purchase of
	necessary supplies, materials and
	equipment	400,000.00
(  f )	For aid in the investigation, survey, construction,
	repair, reconstruction, extension and improvement
	of water supply systems, including the purchase of
	necessary supplies, materials and
	equipment	375,000.00
	E.  FLOOD CONTROL AND DRAINAGE
(g)	For the investigation, survey, construction,
	reconstruction, repair and improvement of river
	control and drainage works, including the
	purchase of necessary supplies, materials
	and equipment	600,000.00
	F.  IRRIGATION
(h)	For the investigation, survey, construction,
	reconstruction, repair and improvement of
	irrigation systems, including the purchase
	of necessary supplies, materials and
	equipment	800,000.00
	G.  INVESTIGATIONS AND SURVEYS
(i)	For the investigation, survey, construction,
	repair and completion of sea protection works,
	including the purchase of necessary supplies,
	materials and equipment	250,000.00
( j)	For the investigation, survey, and adjudication
	of water rights including the purchase of
	necessary supplies, materials and
	equipment	25,000.00
(k)	For making hydrographic investigation in
	connection with the study of water supply,
	irrigation, water power and river control projects,
	including the purchase of necessary supplies,
	materials and equipment	50,000.00
	H.  AIRFIELDS
(l)	For the acquisition, construction, improvement,
	maintenance and operation of airfields for
	commercial aviation	4,000,000.00
		—————
	Total appropriated from General Funds	P24,000,000.00

SECTION 2. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated out of the "Port Works Fund" under Act Numbered Three thousand and ninety-two, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and thirty, not otherwise appropriated, to be at the disposal of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, and subject to the provisions hereinafter set forth, for the purposes mentioned hereunder:

(a)	For the reconstruction and improvement
	of national ports including the purchase of
	necessary supplies, materials and
	equipment	500,000.00
(b)	For the reconstruction and improvement
	of lighthouses and other aids to navigation,
	including the purchase of necessary
	supplies, materials and equipment	300,000.00
(c)	For aid in the reconstruction and improvement
	of municipal ports, including the purchase of
	necessary supplies, materials and
	equipment	200,000.00
		—————
	Total appropriated from Port Works Fund	P1,000,000.00
	Grand total appropriated in this Act,
	Twenty-five Million Pesos	P25,000,000.00

SECTION 3. No amount appropriated in this Act shall be set up in the books of the General Auditing Office or otherwise made available for expenditure unless previously authorized by the President of the Philippines.

SECTION 4. The President of the Philippines is authorized to suspend or otherwise stop the expenditures of any amount herein appropriated for any purpose, or any portion thereof, whenever in his opinion the public interest so requires, or when funds shall not be available for the purpose, and thereupon the funds affected by such action shall become available for any other public works expenditure authorized herein as the President may determine. acd

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 14, 1947.

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 43, No. 7, p. 2587 in July 1947