[ Act No. 2069, July 27, 1911 ]
AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY EXPENSES OF THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS OF AGUSAN, NUEVA VIZCAYA, AND THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, FOR INSULAR EXPENSES IN THE SAID PROVINCES AND THE MORO PROVINCE FOR THE PERIOD ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWELVE, AND ADDING TO THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH THE MONEY APPROPRIATED BY SECTION FIVE OF ACT NUMBERED TWO THOUSAND AND SIXTY-TWO MAY BE USED.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
PROVINCE OF AGUSAN.
For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor for the subprovince of Bukidnon, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; one assistant to the provincial governor, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; two assistants to the provincial governor, at one thousand two hundred pesos per annum each; one assistant to the provincial governor at a compensation of six hundred pesos per annum, in addition to pay and allowances as an officer of the Philippines Constabulary; one assistant to the provincial governor, at a compensation of five hundred pesos per annum, in addition to pay and allowances as an officer of the Philippines Constabulary; one assistant to the provincial governor for Bukidnon, at three thousand and two hundred pesos per annum; one assistant to the provincial governor for Bukidnon, at seven hundred and twenty pesos per annum; for per diems of the third member of the provincial board; two-eighths of the salary of the fiscal for the district of Agusan, Misamis, and Surigao, and for two-eighths of the salary of the clerk to said fiscal, and for a proportionate part of the salaries of clerks to the district auditor; one storekeeper at Malaybalay, at thirty pesos per month and a percentage of sales to be fixed by the provincial treasurer, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior; and 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 actual and necessary traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six; for transportation of supplies; for the purchase of office supplies; printing and binding; postage and telegrams; maintenance of official transportation; for land transportation equipment, including work animals and saddle horses: seeds; alteration, maintenance and repair of provincial buildings; maintenance of equipment; rents: maintenance and repair of bridges, roads, 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: maintenance of prisoners; maintenance and operation of launches; sanitary and burial fund for indigent persons; proportionate part of the fees for bonds of officers: 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; fifty-one thousand two hundred pesos: Provided, That the provisions of sections two and three of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and forty-five are hereby extended to and made applicable to the third member of the provincial board of the Province of Agusan, but all resolutions of the provincial board fixing the per diems to be paid such third member shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF NUEVA VIZCAYA.
For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; assistant to the provincial governor for work among the Ilongots, at one thousand six hundred pesos per annum; for the share of Nueva Vizcaya of the salary of the fiscal for the Mountain Province and Nueva Vizcaya; for salaries and wages of such employees as may be authorized by resolution of the provincial board, with the approval of the Executive Secretary; twenty uniforms for jail guards, one hundred and forty pesos; 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 the transportation of supplies; for the purchase of office supplies; postage and telegrams; printing and binding: premiums on surety bonds; rents; maintenance of official transportation; maintenance of prisoners; maintenance of jail guards on Bagabag-Isabela Road; alteration, maintenance, and repair of buildings; for the maintenance of the Padre Juan Villaverde trail; for the 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; 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; twenty-seven thousand seven hundred pesos.
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE,
For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at six thousand pesos per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer, at five thousand pesos per annum; provincial supervisor, at four thousand pesos per annum; provincial exchange officer, at four thousand pesos per annum; assistant to the provincial supervisor, at trfree thousand two hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Benguet, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Amburayan, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Lepanto, at three thousand pesos per annum lieutenant-governor of Apayao, at four thousand pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Bontoe. al four thousand 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 Philippines Constabulary: for the share of the Mountain Province of the salary of the fiscal of the Mountain Province and Nueva Vizcaya; for a proportionate part of the salaries of clerks to 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; for the transportation of supplies; for land transportation equipment; for the purchase of office supplies; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance of official transportation; maintenance of equipment; maintenance and operation of launches and vessels; 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; court expenses; 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; one hundred and thirty-one thousand nine hundred pesos.
BUREAU OF AUDITS.
For salaries and wages and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Audits, in the territory inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes, nine thousand two hundred pesos.
BUREAU OF CONSTABULARY.
For salaries and wages and duly authorized contingent expenses of the Bureau of Constabulary, including maintenance and repair of Insular buildings, for use in the Moro Province, the Mountain Province, and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya, seven hundred and eight thousand five hundred pesos.
BUREAU OF HEALTH.
For salaries and wages of district health officer, Mountain Province, at four thousand pesos per annum; district health officer, Nueva Vizcaya, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; district health officer, Agusan, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; two sanitary inspectors, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum each; nine assistant sanitary inspectors, at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum each; for emergency sanitary inspectors; contingent expenses, including medicines and supplies; traveling expenses; per diems; and other incidental expenses; thirty thousand pesos.
BUREAU OF LANDS.
For the expenses of survey parties and the expense of making free-patent, homestead, and other public-land inspections, in Agusan, Nueva Vizcaya, Mountain Province, and the Moro Province, twenty-five thousand pesos.
BUREAU OF FORESTRY.1aшphi1
For salaries and wages of foresters, rangers, guards, and fire wardens, including three thousand pesos to enable the Bureau to maintain a nurseryman at Baguio to assist in the establishment of an arboretum and other work for the beautification of Baguio; for contingent expenses, including transportation, traveling expenses, and per diems of officers and employees traveling on official business; office supplies; postage and telegrams; exploration and other incidental expenses in the Moro Province, the Mountain Province, and the Provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Agusan; twenty-three thousand pesos.
BUREAU OF EDUCATION.
For salaries and wages of one division superintendent, at four thousand pesos per annum; one-third of the salary of one division superintendent, at four thousand pesos per annum; one division superintendent, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; one-third of the salary of one division superintendent, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, Class D; one clerk, Class H; one clerk, Class I; two teachers, class six; six teachers, class seven; six teachers, at three thousand pesos per annum each; six teachers, class eight; three teachers, at two thousand six hundred pesos per annum each; five teachers, class nine; one teacher, at one thousand nine hundred and ninety-two pesos per annum; two teachers, Class G; fourteen teachers, Class H; twenty-four teachers, Class I; four teachers, at five hundred and forty pesos per annum each; twenty-seven teachers, Class J : nine teachers, at four hundred and twenty pesos per annum each; twenty-six teachers, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each; twenty-one teachers at three hundred pesos per annum each; third-one teachers, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each ; accrued leaves and allowances: Provided, That the Director of Education, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, may designate certain teachers for continuous duty throughout the school vacation periods in cases where the good of the service makes this action advisable, such teachers to be entitled to the leave privileges provided in section twenty-three (a) of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and ninety-eight in lieu of the vacation privileges granted to teachers in section twenty-three (d) of said Act; for contingent expenses, including the purchase of books, tools, and miscellaneous supplies; traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees traveling on official business: transportation of supplies; maintenance and clothing of pupils; allowances and traveling expenses of ten students to be selected from the Mountain Province and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya to pursue a course in training for teaching, subject to the provisions contained in Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and eighty-three of the Philippine Legislature: Provided, That such students shall not be subject to the scholarship requirement of said Act and may receive the training hereby provided for in my school of the Philippine-Islands selected by the Director of Education; and other incidental expenses; two hundred and thirty-five thousand seven hundred pesos.
BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE.
For salaries and wages of two veterinarians, Mountain Province, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum each; two veterinarians, Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum each : one-half salary of the superintendent of Trinidad garden: for hire of inspectors, laborers, and other temporary employees, including' labor on the farms; contingent expenses, including per diems and traveling expenses of veterinarians and others; seeds, plants', and fertilizers, including seeds for distribution; tools and implements; experiments in growing Irish potatoes in the Mountain Province and for furnishing seed potatoes to Igorots; and other incidental expenses; forty thousand pesos.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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, six thousand pesos.
Total of appropriations for all purposes, one million two hundred and eighty-eight thousand two hundred pesos.
Enacted, July 27, 1911.
