[ Act No. 918, October 02, 1903 ]
AN ACT APPROPRIATING TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, OR SO MUCH THEREOF AS MAY BE NECESSARY, FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A WAGON ROAD FROM PASACAO TO NUEVA CACERES, IN THE PROVINCE OF AMBOS CAMARINES.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of so much of the three-million-dollar Congressional relief fund as remains unappropriated in the Insular Treasury, for the purpose of constructing a wagon road from Pasacao to Nueva Caceres, in the Province of Ambos Camarines. The sum hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be disbursed by the provincial supervisor of Ambos Camarines, or by a duly bonded official of the Government to be designated by the Civil Governor.
Section 2. The Civil Governor may direct the payment of such portions of the expenses for labor and material either in money or in money, rice as, in his discretion, may be deemed best for the people doing the labor or furnishing the material.
Section 3. The Consulting Engineer to the Commission shall have general supervision of the work of construction. The provincial supervisor of Ambos Camarines shall have immediate charge of all the work of construction. He may appoint his assistants and fix their rates of compensation subject to the approval of the Consulting Engineer to the Commission. He shall make detailed monthly reports of the progress of the work herein authorized, including an itemized statement of the various expenditures made during each month and the purposes thereof, to the Consulting Engineer to the Commission, who shall forward the same to the Civil Governor through the Secretary of Commerce and Police.
Section 4. The officers and employees provided for in section three of this Act shall not, necessarily, be subject to the provisions of the Civil Service Act and the Acts amendatory thereof; but employees belonging to the classified service may be temporarily transferred to this work without losing their status in the classified service.
Section 5.1aшphi1 The necessary tools, supplies, and material shall be purchased by the provincial supervisor of Ambos Camarines, with the approval of the Consulting Engineer to the Commission, in the manner provided for by law. Such purchases may be made by the provincial supervisor in open market, by contract or otherwise, when in his opinion, such purchases shall become necessary for the economical and expeditious prosecution of the work: Provided, however, That such purchases shall be made only with the approval of the Consulting Engineer to the Commission.
Section 6. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Section 7. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, October 2, 1903.
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