[ Act No. 1246, October 12, 1904 ]
AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY-FOUR PESOS AND SEVENTY-FIVE CENTAVOS, PHILIPPINE CURRENCY, OR SO MUCH THEREOF AS MAY BE NECESSARY, FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC WORKS, PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS, AND OTHER PURPOSES OF THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
BUREAU OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Public works. Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings: For the alteration, construction, or improvement of the following-named public buildings and grounds:
Bureau of Coast Guard and Transportation: Machine shop on Engineer Island: Alteration of buildings, furnishing and laying railroad track, painting with carbolineum, detached latrine, electric wiring, and electric booth; eleven thousand and eighty-seven pesos.
Bureau of Government Laboratories: For the new laboratory building, including completion of mechanical equipment and construction of desks and fixtures, driveways and walks, filling, grading and parking in the grounds, thirty-three thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine pesos and eight centavos and for the serum laboratory, including monkey storehouse, houses for small animals, cement drains, and stables, twenty-four thousand pesos; total, fifty-seven thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine pesos and eight centavos.
Bureau of Insular Purchasing Agent: For additions and alterations of new corral at San Lazaro, three thousand five hundred pesos.
Bureau of Philippine Constabulary: For construction and repair of offices. quarters, barracks and storehouses for the Constabulary at different stations in the Islands, twenty thousand pesos.
Bilibid Prison: For completion of workshops, fourteen thousand fight hundred and twenty-eight pesos.
Civil Sanitarium and cottages, Baguio, Benguet: Addition to Sanitarium, forty-one thousand eight hundred and twenty pesos; for additions to present cottages, including roofs on cottages and other buildings, nine thousand eight hundred and sixty pesos; total, fifty-one thousand six hundred and eighty pesos.
Intendencia Building: Alterations and repairs, one thousand and sixty-four pesos.
Malacaņan Palace: New roof, ten thousand six hundred and seventy pesos.
In all, for the Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings, one hundred and seventy thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight pesos and eight centavos.
Of the funds appropriated by Act Numbered Eight hundred and thirty-one for twelve medium-sized and one large coal shed, not to exceed an aggregate cost of twenty-eight thousand pesos, the sum of sixteen thousand pesos is hereby made available for the construction of three large coal sheds at, points to be indicated by the Insular Purchasing Agent, and the balance, twelve thousand pesos, shall revert to the Insular Treasury.
The undrawn and unexpended balances of funds as allotted for the various purposes under the appropriations made by Acts Numbered Eight hundred and seven. One thousand and forty-nine, Eleven hundred and eighty-eight, and Twelve hundred and twenty-five for "Public works, Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings" for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and four and nineteen hundred and five are hereby constituted no fiscal year funds and made available for withdrawal, with, the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, and disbursement until the said public works are completed. All balances remaining unexpended when any of the public works appropriated for as above is completed, shall at once revert to the credit of the general fund in the Treasury, available for appropriation.
BUREAU OF COAST GUARD AND TRANSPORTATION
Light-House Service, Bureau of Coast Guard and Transportation: For the construction of light stations at Capitancillo Island, Bajo Apo Islet, and Bagacay Point, and for the construction and completion of other minor stations, the purchase and installation of port lights and lanterns, and necessary surveys: one hundred and seventeen thousand pesos.
For general improvement of Engineer Island, including an artesian well, purchase and installation of hoisting derricks, tramway, track and cars, for filling and cleaning island, hauling sand and gravel, removing debris, and such other small and necessary improvements as may be directed by the Chief of Coast Guard and Transportation; twenty-one thousand pesos.
For construction and equipment of marine railway and machine shop on Engineer Island, one hundred and eighty-five thousand pesos.
In all, for the Bureau of Coast Guard and Transportation, three hundred and twenty-three thousand pesos, under the provisions of Act Numbered Eight hundred and thirty-one.1aшphi1
BUREAU OF PHILIPPINES CONSTABULARY
Telegraph, and telephone service, Philippines Constabulary: For the purchase of five thousand iron telegraph polos, including cost of transportation and distribution, thirty-four thousand five hundred pesos.
BUREAU OF PRISONS
For installation of electric light and power, fifteen thousand pesos.
BENGUET ROAD
For expenses in carrying on the construction of the Benguet road, seven hundred and fifteen thousand pesos.
IMPROVEMENT OF THE PORT OF MANILA
For continuing the improvements of the harbor of Manila, and other public works, as provided in Act Numbered Twenty-two, as amended, one million two hundred thousand pesos: Provided, That the work shall be performed under the, supervision of, and this appropriation disbursed by, the officer in charge of the improvement of the port, and shall be available for expenditure in payment for all work at present under contract for the improvement of the port of Manila and for continuing the improvements to the Pasig River.
NAGUILIAN-BAGUIO WAGON ROAD SURVEY
For payment of Edward L. Heath for services in connection with the completion of the survey of the Naguilian-Baguio wagon road, seven hundred and sixty-six pesos and sixty-seven centavos.
QUARANTINE SERVICE
Qua ran line station, Cebu: "The sum of sixty thousand pesos appropriated by Act Numbered Eight hundred and thirty-one for "Construction of buildings and floating wharf, and purchase of disinfecting machinery" is hereby made available for "Construction of buildings and wharf, and purchase of disinfecting machinery and equipment," in lieu of the purposes above mentioned.
TIMBER WHARF, HARBOR OF CEBU
For the completion of the timber wharf in the harbor of Cebu, Province of Cebu, six thousand four hundred and seventy pesos.
For the purchase by the Insular Government of a certain parcel of land lying between the easterly line of the proposed boulevard known as Calle K, and the easterly boundary of the Exposition Grounds, in the district of Ermita, city of Manila, said to contain forty-two thousand four hundred and fifty-four and four hundreds square meters of land; forty thousand pesos.
Total of appropriations for all purposes, two million five hundred and five thousand four hundred and ninety-four pesos and seventy-five centavos. Philippine currency, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Enacted, October 12, 1904.
