[ Act No. 1479, April 23, 1906 ]
AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED PESOS FROM THE FUNDS REALIZED FROM THE SALE OF PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT BONDS AUTHORIZED BY ACT NUMBERED FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC WORKS AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS OF THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The following sums in Philippine currency, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of the funds realized from the sale of public improvement bonds authorized by Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and forty-four for certain public works and permanent improvements of the Insular Government:
BUREAU OF PUBLIC WORKS.
For the extension of the stone causeway and construction of a new timber wharf at Puerto Princesa, ten thousand pesos.
For the completion of the Calamba-Los Banos-Bay wagon road, thirty-five thousand six hundred pesos.
In all for the Bureau of Public Works, forty-five thousand six hundred pesos.
BUREAU OF PORT WORKS.
For continuing the improvement of the port of Manila, including the construction of two steel wharves and expenses incidental thereto, nine hundred thousand pesos.
BENGUET IMPROVEMENTS.
For the construction of a wagon road from Baguio to Trinidad, two thousand five hundred pesos.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The funds appropriated by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and seven for the construction of a road between the towns of Wright and Taft, Province of Samar, are hereby made available for the payment, of additional compensation at the rate of one thousand pesos per annum from March third, nineteen hundred and five, to the treasurer of the Province of Samar for services as disbursing officer of said appropriation, the provisions of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Total of appropriations for all purposes, nine hundred and forty-eight thousand one hundred pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary.1aшphi11aшphi1
Section 2. All balances remaining unexpended when any public work or permanent improvement appropriated for by this Act is completed shall be returned at once to the Treasury of the Philippine Islands and shall not be available for withdrawal or disbursement thereafter, but shall be carried to the account of funds realized from the sale of public improvement bonds.
Section 3. 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 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, April 23, 1906.
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