Making Appropriations for Current Expenses and Public Works and Permanent Improvements of Nueva Vizcaya and Mountain Province

March 7, 1914

ACT NO. 2395

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CURRENT EXPENSES AND PUBLIC WORKS AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS OF THE PROVINCE OF NUEVA VIZCAYA AND THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE AND FOR PUBLIC WORKS AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS OF THE BUREAU OF HEALTH IN THE TERRITORY INHABITED BY MOROS OR OTHER NON-CHRISTIAN TRIBES FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED FOURTEEN

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, for current expenses and public works and permanent improvements of the Province of Nueva Vizcaya and the Mountain Province and for public works and permanent improvements of the Bureau of Health in the territory inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes, for the year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred fourteen. SDAaTC

 

PROVINCE OF NUEVA VIZCAYA
	Current expenses.
(a)	For salaries and wages, including salary of
	provincial governor, at four thousand pesos
	per annum, with quarters; assistant to the
	provincial governor for work among the
	Ilongots, at one thousand six hundred pesos
	per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer,
	at three thousand two hundred pesos per
	annum; share of Nueva Vizcaya of the salary
	of the fiscal for the Mountain Province and
	Nueva Vizcaya; proportionate part of the
	salaries of the clerks to the fiscal and the
	district auditor; salaries and wages of such
	employees as may be authorized by resolution
	of the provincial board, with the approval of
	the Executive Secretary; for general provincial
	expenses, including actual and necessary
	traveling expenses and per diems of officers
	and employees under the provisions of Act
	Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six;
	purchase of supplies; transportation of supplies;
	purchase of equipment, including school, road,
	and transportation equipment; maintenance of
	equipment; office expenses; postage and
	telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance
	of schools; allowance for one pensionado,
	including matriculation fee; purchase and
	transportation of medicines; seeds; premiums
	on surety bonds; insurance on buildings; rents;
	maintenance and operation of official
	transportation; maintenance of prisoners;
	uniforms for jail guards; maintenance of jail
	guards on Bagabag-Isabela road; alteration,
	maintenance, and repair of buildings;
	maintenance of the Padre Juan Villaverde trail;
	maintenance and repair of other roads, bridges,
	and trails, and telephone lines, and the removal
	of obstructions in rivers; maintenance of public
	animals, including breeding animals loaned by
	the Bureau of Agriculture; court expenses;
	sanitary and burial fund for indigent persons;
	maintenance and operation of launch; for a fund
	to be expended by the provincial governor in
	the manner funds are provided to be expended
	by Act Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two
	under the head "Provincial Government of
	Lepanto-Bontoc;" and other incidental expenses	P44,500.00
Public works and permanent improvements.
(b)	For improvement of salt plant at Salinas; for
	improvement of Ilongot trail; for improvement
	and extension of telephone system; for widening
	and improving the Padre Juan Villaverde trail
	from Santa Fe to Imugan; for surfacing ten
	kilometers of Bagabag-Isabela road, including
	the purchase of a rock crusher; and for an
	irrigation project at Calabagan (east coast)	P27,300.00
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	Total for the Province of Nueva Vizcaya	P71,800.00
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MOUNTAIN PROVINCE.
	Current expenses.
(c)	For salaries and wages, including salary of
	provincial governor, at six thousand pesos
	per annum; lieutenant-governor of Benguet,
	at three thousand six hundred pesos per
	annum, and for an addition to his salary at
	the rate of one thousand pesos per annum,
	and for an addition to his salary at the rate
	of one thousand pesos per annum during
	such time as he remains in general charge
	of railroad grading in the subprovince of
	Benguet, to be paid by the railroad company;
	lieutenant-governor of Amburayan and
	Lepanto, at four thousand five hundred pesos
	per annum; assistant to the lieutenant-governor
	of Lepanto, at one thousand eight hundred
	pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Apayao,
	at four thousand pesos per annum; assistant to
	the lieutenant-governor of Apayao, at three
	hundred and sixty pesos per annum; lieutenant-
	governor of Bontoc, at four thousand pesos
	per annum; Provided, That this position shall
	be filled only in the absence of either the
	provincial governor or the secretary-treasurer;
	assistant to the lieutenant-governor of Bontoc,
	at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum;
	lieutenant-governor of Kalinga, at four
	thousand pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor
	of Ifugao, at one thousand six hundred pesos
	per annum, in addition to compensation as an
	officer of the Philippine Constabulary;
	provincial secretary-treasurer, at six thousand
	pesos per annum, provincial supervisor, at four
	thousand pesos per annum, until March fifteenth,
	nineteen hundred fourteen; assistant to the
	provincial supervisor, at three thousand two
	hundred pesos per annum; share of the Mountain
	Province of the salary of the fiscal of the
	Mountain Province and Nueva Vizcaya;
	proportionate part of the salaries of the clerks
	to the fiscal and the district auditor; for salaries
	and wages of such employees as may be
	authorized by resolution of the provincial
	board, with the approval of the Executive
	Secretary; for general provincial expenses,
	including the actual and necessary traveling
	expenses and per diems of officers and
	employees under the provisions of Act
	Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six;
	for sheriff's fees; purchase of supplies;
	transportation of supplies; purchase of
	equipment, including school, road and
	transportation equipment; maintenance of
	equipment; office expenses; postage and
	telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance
	and operation of official transportation;
	maintenance and operation of launches and
	vessels; maintenance of schools; alteration,
	maintenance, and repair of provincial buildings;
	rents; maintenance and repair of bridges, roads
	and trails and telephone lines and removal of
	obstructions in rivers; operation of land
	transportation; maintenance of public animals,
	including breeding animals loaned by the Bureau
	of Agriculture; maintenance of prisoners;
	uniforms of guards; sanitary and burial fund for
	indigent persons premiums on surety bonds; for
	a fund to be expended by the provincial governor
	in the manner funds are provided to be expended
	by Act Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two,
	under the head of "Provincial Government of
	Lepanto-Bontoc;" and other incidental expenses	P140,600.00
	Public works and permanent improvements.
(d)	For the construction of a cut-off on the Baguio-
	Bontoc Road from a point in the vicinity of
	kilometer 88, to Sabangan	10,000.00
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	Total for the Mountain Province	P150,600.00
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BUREAU OF HEALTH
	Bontoc Hospital division.
(e)	For general maintenance, alteration and repair
	of buildings of the Bontoc Hospital Division	1,000.00
	Miscellaneous.
(f)	For the alteration, maintenance and repair of
	buildings in the Mountain Province, Nueva
	Vizcaya, Agusan, and the Department of
	Mindanao and Sulu	2,000.00
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	Total for the Bureau of Health	P3,000.00
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(g)	For a special fund to be expended in the
	discretion of the Secretary of the Interior,
	for such purposes as may be considered
	necessary in establishing and promoting
	friendly relations with non-Christian tribes
	and suppressing head-hunting	6,000.00
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	Total of appropriations by this Act	P231,400.00
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SECTION 2. Subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the provincial boards of Nueva Vizcaya and the Mountain Province may expend on permanent improvement funds appropriated for current expenses.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect as of January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen.

ENACTED, March 7, 1914.