[ Act No. 2059, February 03, 1911 ]
AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC WORKS.
By authority of the United States, be it exacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:
BUREAU OF HEALTH.
For the construction of buildings at Culion, fifty thousand pesos.
For the construction of permanent buildings at Ilagan, Isabela, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, twenty thousand pesos; for permanent buildings, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, thirty thousand pesos: Provided, That of this amount ten thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be immediately available for the construction of a strong room for the storage of arms and ammunition in the Oriente Building in Manila; in all, fifty thousand pesos.
BUREAU OF PUBLIC WORKS.
For the construction, improvement, and, where necessary, maintenance of roads and bridges in those provinces which shall accept the provisions of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and fifty-two, and which shall by resolution of the provincial board guarantee, by continuing annual appropriations, the establishment of such a conservation system as may be necessary in the judgment of the Director of Public Works on all first-class roads now or hereafter constructed and declared to be such by the Director of Public Works, including the construction, improvement, and maintenance of roads and bridges in the Provinces of Mindoro, Palawan, and Batanes. to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, one million five-hundred thousand pesos: Provided, That of the sum appropriated, in this section twenty thousand pesos are declared available to be loaned, with the approval of the Governor-General and subject to the conditions prescribed by him, by the Secretary of Commerce and Police to the provincial board for improvements, sanitation, and public works in the municipality of Antipolo. Said provincial board in the performance of this duty is hereby vested with all the authority and duties conferred upon the committee created by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-three, as amended.
For the repair and construction of the wagon road between Baliuag and San Miguel, Bulacan, including the necessary bridges and culverts, and for the maintenance of grounds, buildings, additional baths, extension of streets, construction of additional bridges and culverts, and additional funds for the sanitarium, all within the zone reserved in Sibul Springs, to be expended by the committee created by Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and eighty-one, fifty
thousand pesos.
For the determination of existing water rights, to be expended by the Director of Public Works, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, forty.thousand pesos.
For the drilling of artesian wells and for the construction of water-supply systems, to*be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, five hundred thousand pesos.
For river control, investigation, and construction, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, taking into consideration the necessities of the provinces and municipalities, two hundred thousand pesos.
Subject to approval by the Secretary of Commerce and Police, work may be executed by the Bureau of Public Works for private parties, the total charges thereof to be collected and deposited to the credit of appropriations for current expenses of the Bureau of Public Works and become available therefor: Provided, That the provisions of this paragraph shall be retroactive in effect, to include operations for the period from July first, nineteen hundred and ten, to .lime thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven.
The Insular Treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to advance from time to time to the Bureau of Public Works an amount not exceeding ninety per centum of the amount owing to the Bureau of Public Works by the provinces, and to apply the money received from the provinces in payment of said claims to the repayment of the sum thus advanced the Bureau.
Employees of the Bureau of Public Works shall be entitled to medicines and medical attendance while engaged on any authorized public works at places where usual medical attendance is not accessible, and the Director of Public Works may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, appoint such physicians, at fixed monthly salaries, as may be in his judgment for the best interest of the service, when such medical attendance and supplies can not be furnished by the Bureau of Health or the Bureau of Constabulary.
In all, two million two hundred and ninety thousand pesos.1aшphi1
BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.
For the improvement of ports and dredging of navigable rivers and canals, opening of new canals, construction of breakwaters, sea walls, dams, and containing walls, for the prevention of inundations, including the continuation of the sea wall in the port of Cebu and for the improvement of the port of Iloilo, and further investigations at the ports of Dagupan, Aparri, and Calbayog, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, five hundred thousand pesos: Provided, That, in case of the approval by Congress of a law authorizing the sale of bonds for public improvements and the approval of a law by the Legislature appropriating part of the proceeds from the sale of such bonds for the improvement of ports, this appropriation shall be of no force or effect.
For the purchase of launches and the improvement of cutters for the purpose of fitting them up for new work, forty thousand pesos.
For the construction, repair, and maintenance of lights and buoys, including dwellings for the light-keepers, and so forth, as approved by the Light-house Board, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, two hundred and fifty thousand pesos.
For the construction and equipment of a shallow-draft steel hull for the stem-wheel engine and boiler at present owned by the Bureau, for use on the Cagayan River, thirty thousand pesos.
For the reconstruction of the cutter "Corregidor," to be used as a buoy vessel, for the placing and overhauling of buoys, and the construction of beacons, fifty thousand pesos.
In all, eight hundred and seventy thousand pesos.
BUREAU OF POSTS.
For the purchase of submarine cable to replace the present cable, two hundred and twenty thousand pesos; for the establishment of new telegraph lines and the repair and maintenance of existing lines, fifty thousand pesos. Total for the Bureau of Posts, two hundred and seventy thousand pesos.
BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE.
For the completion of the Pandacan cattle quarantine station, including office building, additional sheds, concrete and other fences, concrete docks and runway, revetment along river front, fill, surfacing of roads, concrete silos, industrial railway, and adobe masonry river wall at forage factory, twenty thousand pesos.
COURT OF LAND REGISTRATION.
For the construction of a vault, five thousand pesos; for the construction of an electric elevator, one thousand and five hundred pesos; in all, six thousand and five hundred pesos.
BUREAU OF EDUCATION.
For Insular school buildings, to be allotted by the Secretary of Public Instruction, five hundred thousand pesos.
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES.
For the construction of a building for the use of the University of the Philippines, two hundred and fifty thousand pesos; for the construction, for the College of Agriculture at Los Baños, of a stable, eight thousand pesos; irrigation system, fourteen thousand pesos; in all, two hundred and seventy-two thousand pesos.
PHILIPPINES LIBRARY.
For the purchase of book stacks and appurtenances thereto, eleven thousand pesos; for the purchase of books, fifteen thousand pesos; in all, twenty-six thousand pesos.
Total appropriations for public works and permanent improvements, four million three hundred and fifty-four thousand and five hundred pesos.
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 Insular Treasury and shall not be available for withdrawal or disbursement thereafter, but shall be carried to the general revenues of the Islands.
Enacted, February 3, 1911.
