Confirming and Ratifying All Steps Taken for the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of Andres Bonifacio
Act No. 2760, enacted on February 23, 1918, confirms and ratifies the efforts to erect a national monument honoring Andres Bonifacio, alongside the maintenance and improvement of similar national monuments. It authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish committees for collecting public subscriptions to fund the project, with committee members serving without compensation. Once sufficient funds are raised, the Insular Government will match the amount, and the Secretary will oversee the monument's construction. Additionally, the Act allocates up to twenty-five thousand pesos from the Insular Treasury for this purpose.
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- What is Confirming and Ratifying All Steps Taken for the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of Andres Bonifacio about?
- Act No. 2760, enacted on February 23, 1918, confirms and ratifies the efforts to erect a national monument honoring Andres Bonifacio, alongside the maintenance and improvement of similar national monuments. It authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish committees for collecting public subscriptions to fund the project, with committee members serving without compensation. Once sufficient funds are raised, the Insular Government will match the amount, and the Secretary will oversee the monument's construction. Additionally, the Act allocates up to twenty-five thousand pesos from the Insular Treasury for this purpose.
- What type of law is Act No. 2760?
- Confirming and Ratifying All Steps Taken for the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of Andres Bonifacio (Act No. 2760) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
- When was Confirming and Ratifying All Steps Taken for the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of Andres Bonifacio enacted?
- Confirming and Ratifying All Steps Taken for the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of Andres Bonifacio (Act No. 2760) was enacted on Feb 23, 1918.
- What is the citation for Confirming and Ratifying All Steps Taken for the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of Andres Bonifacio?
- Confirming and Ratifying All Steps Taken for the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of Andres Bonifacio, Act No. 2760, Feb 23, 1918 (Philippines)
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- Act No. 2760
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- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
February 23, 1918
ACT NO. 2760
AN ACT TO CONFIRM AND RATIFY ALL STEPS TAKEN FOR THE ERECTION, MAINTENANCE, AND IMPROVEMENT OF NATIONAL MONUMENTS AND PARTICULARLY FOR THE ERECTION OF A MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF ANDRES BONIFACIO, TO AUTHORIZE THE CREATION OF A COMMITTEE OR COMMITTEES FOR TAKING UP POPULAR SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS THEREFOR
SECTION 1. The preliminary steps taken with a view to erecting a monument to the memory of Andres Bonifacio and the idea of erecting, maintaining, and improving national monuments of this character, as expressed in Act Numbered Twenty-four hundred and ninety-four, are hereby confirmed and ratified. For this purpose and in order to expedite as much as possible the realization of the plan to erect a monument to the memory of Andres Bonifacio, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to appoint a committee or committees for the purpose of taking up popular subscriptions in such manner and subject to such conditions as said Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. The members of these committees shall serve without compensation. The funds so collected shall be expended by the Secretary of the Interior in any manner conducive to the purpose of the subscription, that is, the erection of the monument, which may include the ordinary payment of agents for the collection on a percentage or per diem basis, in the discretion of said Secretary of the Interior.
SECTION 2. As soon as in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior a sufficient sum shall have been raised by popular subscription, the Insular Government shall contribute a like sum for the expenses above mentioned, and said Secretary of the Interior shall forthwith direct the work of the erection of the monument to be begun. The Secretary of the Interior may designate any officer or employee of the Insular Government, the city of Manila, or any provincial or municipal government for duty, either individually or as member of a committee, in connection with any work relative to the erection of said monument or the collection of funds therefor, without additional compensation.
SECTION 3. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-five thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum shall be at the disposal of the Secretary of the Interior for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved: February 23, 1918.
Cite This Law
Confirming and Ratifying All Steps Taken for the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of Andres Bonifacio, Act No. 2760, Feb 23, 1918 (Philippines)
Confirming and Ratifying All Steps Taken for the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of Andres Bonifacio, Act No. 2760 (Phil. 1918)
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