[ Act No. 2229, February 08, 1913 ]
AN ACT AUTHORIZING CERTAIN MEASURES FOR IMPROVING THE PLANTING, CURING, AND PREPARATION OF TOBACCO.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:
Section 1. It is hereby directed that the Director of the Bureau of Agriculture station in the tobacco-producing provinces employees of his Bureau, experts in the planting and production of tobacco, to make experimental demonstrations in suitable municipalities or places, relative to the adoption and use of modern methods of planting, cultivating, curing, and preparing tobacco and the selection of the soil, the planting and cultivation of foreign tobaccos, and any measures that may be necessary for instructing the tobacco growers.
Section 2. The Director of the Bureau of Agriculture shall, for the purposes of this Act, establish in the province or provinces where he may deem it advisable, an experimental station dedicated especially and exclusively to experiments in tobacco cultivation and production.
Section 3.(awÞhi( The sum of ten thousand pesos is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for carrying out the provisions of this share of expense. Act: Provided, That provinces and municipalities desiring to be benefited by such experimental demonstrations shall participate in the expenditures occasioned by such experimental demonstrations, which shall be assessed pro rata by the Governor-General; but in no case shall the share of the province or municipality exceed two-fifths of the actual cost of such experimental demonstrations: Provided, however, That the share of the municipality shall in no case be equal to or larger than that of the province: And provided further, That the sum appropriated by this Act shall not be applicable to salaries and expenses of the personnel appointed by the Director of Agriculture.
Enacted, February 8, 1913.
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