Appropriation of Funds for Public Works

June 14, 1948

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 260

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF FIFTY-SIX MILLION TWENTY THOUSAND 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 released by the President of the Philippines 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, hospital and
	market sites in provinces, chartered cities, and
	municipalities, upon the recommendation of the
	President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
	House of Representatives	P26,000,000.00
(b)	For the operation of a revolving fund in connection
	with the installation of rock quarry or quarries,
	including the rehabilitation of the Los Baños Quarry
	and Romblon Marble Quarry	1,000,000.00
(c)	For the operation of a revolving fund in connection
	with the operation and maintenance of the Materials
	Testing Laboratory which was turned over to the
	Bureau of Public Works by the U.S. Public Roads
	Administration in the Philippines	50,000.00
(d)	For the installation of Photolithographic Map
	Reproduction Plant, Bureau of Coast and Geodetic
	Survey	70,000.00
	B.  PUBLIC BUILDINGS
(e)	For the maintenance, alteration, reconstruction, repair
	and construction 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	4,500,000.00
(f)	For the construction, reconstruction, repair and
	improvement of buildings and other facilities for the
	Armed Forces of the Philippines, including the
	acquisition of sites for military areas and the
	purchase of necessary supplies, materials and
	equipment	2,500,000.00
(g)	For the maintenance, repair, improvement,
	construction and reconstruction of barracks,
	schools, dispensaries, hospitals, officers' quarters,
	warehouses, and other facilities for the Philippine
	Constabulary, including the purchase of necessary
	supplies, materials and equipment	2,000,000.00
	C.  HIGHWAYS
(h)	For the survey and construction of national roads,
	including the purchase of necessary supplies, materials
	and equipment	2,000,000.00
(i)	For aid for the construction, repair, reconstruction,
	and improvement of provincial roads and bridges,
	including the purchase of necessary supplied, materials
	and equipment	2,000,000.00
	D.  SANITATION
(j)	For the construction, repair or reconstruction
	of national, provincial, city and municipal hospitals,
	dispensaries and maternities, including the purchase
	of hospital equipment	800,000.00
(k)	For the drilling 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	1,000,000.00
(l)	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	1,000,000.00
	E.  FLOOD CONTROL AND DRAINAGE
(m)	For the investigation, survey, construction, reconstruction,
	repair and improvement of river control and drainage
	works, including the purchase of necessary supplies,
	materials and equipment	4,000,000.00
(n)	For the improvement of drainage and sanitary conditions
	in the North Harbor, Manila	420,000.00
	F.  IRRIGATION
(o)	For the investigation, survey, construction, reconstruction,
	repair and improvement of irrigation systems, including
	the purchase of necessary supplies, materials and
	equipment	4,360,000.00
	G.  INVESTIGATION AND SURVEYS
(p)	For the investigation, survey, construction, repair and
	completion of sea protection works, including the
	purchase of necessary supplies, materials and equipment	1,000,000.00
(q)	For the investigation, survey and adjudication of water
	rights, including the purchase of necessary supplies,
	materials and equipment	25,000.00
(r)	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	45,000.00
	H.  AIRFIELDS
(s)	For the acquisition, construction, improvement,
	maintenance and operation of airfields for commercial
	aviation	2,000,000.00
	Total appropriated from
	General Funds	P54,770,000.00
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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 five hundred 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, are subject to the provisions hereinafter set forth, for the purposes mentioned hereunder: cdt

(a)	For the reconstruction and improvement
	of national ports and the purchase of necessary
	supplies, materials and equipment	P700,000.00
(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	225,000.00
(d)	For the investigation and survey of ports and port
	sites, including the purchase of supplies, materials
	and equipment	25,000.00
	Total appropriated from Port
	Works Fund	P1,250,000.00
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	Grand total appropriated in this
	Act, Fifty-six Million Twenty
	Thousand Pesos	P56,020,000.00
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SECTION 3. All sums appropriated under section one of this Act shall be released only after certification by the Secretary of Finance and the Auditor General to the President of the Philippines that there are sufficient funds derived from current revenues in excess of authorized appropriations for the ordinary operating expenses of the National Government in the Philippine Treasury to warrant such release and that 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.

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

Approved: June 14, 1948

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 44, No. 10, p. 3737 in October 1948