Appropriations for Current Expenses and Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu for the Fiscal Year Ending December Thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred Fifteen

December 3, 1914

ACT NO. 2423

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CURRENT EXPENSES AND PUBLIC WORKS AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MINDANAO AND SULU FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED FIFTEEN

SECTION 1. The following sums or so much thereof as may be necessary are hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated as Insular aid to the Department of Mindanao and Sulu for the fiscal year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred fifteen, subject to detailed appropriation by the administrative council under the supervision of the Philippine Commission as provided by section six (a) of Act Numbered Twenty-four hundred and eight:

For the expense of the department government, including the
offices of the governor and members of the administrative
council, and otherwise as the public service may require:
Provided, That the Governor-General may require the
department secretary or an assistant to the department
governor to perform the duties of department treasurer
or department attorney as in his discretion may be to the
greatest advantage to the public service	P212,000.00
For aid in the current expenses of the provincial government
of Agusan and the newly organized Provinces of Bukidnon,
Cotabato, Davao, Lanao, Sulu, and Zamboanga	365,000.00
For superintendence, maintenance, and other expense of
primary schools including educational work among adults
in elementary civics, agriculture, and household industries	225,000.00
For superintendence, maintenance, and other expense of
dispensary stations, public hospitals, and health service	130,000.00
For aid in the provision by artesian wells or otherwise
of potable water for municipalities; for the construction and
improvement of bridges, roads, and trails; provision of
landing facilities in the form of piers, wharves, and otherwise
at minor ports; removal of obstructions to navigation; and
the extension of telephone lines; for the maintenance of
wharves and mooring buoys at the ports of Jolo and
Zamboanga and the reconstruction of the wharf at
Zamboanga, including the repayment to Insular trust
funds of the sum of thirty-two thousand pesos and
interest thereon, which was loaned to the Moro
Province and expended for the improvement of
that port of entry   ISTCHE	300,000.00
For the payment to Insular trust funds of the loan of fifteen
thousand pesos with interest thereon, and refund to the
municipal government of Dapitan of payments made on
these accounts, for the Insular project of the Rizal
Memorial at Dapitan	16,000.00
For the installation and operation of small radio stations,
telegraph lines, marine cables, and other extensions of the
Insular telegraph service to be expended by the Director
of Posts under the supervision of the Secretary of Commerce
and Police	25,000.00
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Total of appropriations by this Act	1,273,000.00
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SECTION 2. Authority is hereby granted Lieutenant A.K. Buck, Philippine Constabulary, acting as assistant to the governor of the Province of Agusan for the district of Gibung-Simulao, for the period January first to August thirty-first, to receive compensation in addition to his pay and allowances as an officer of the Philippine Constabulary notwithstanding the provisions of Act Numbered One hundred and forty-eight, Philippine Commission.

The provisions of the last paragraph of section seven of Act Numbered Twenty-four hundred and eight are hereby made applicable to the Provinces of Agusan and Bukidnon as of date January first, nineteen hundred fourteen.

SECTION 3. The unexpended and unappropriated balances of funds pertaining to the treasury of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred fourteen, shall be available for reappropriation by the administrative council subject to the supervision of the Philippine Commission as provided by section six (a) of Act Numbered Twenty-four hundred and eight. DAEaTS

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, December 3, 1914.