[ Act No. 2691, March 09, 1917 ]

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR PUBLIC WORKS AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE AND THE PROVINCE OF NUEVA VIZCAYA.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

Section 1. There are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the following sums or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary:

(a) For public works and permanent improvements in the Mountain Province, as follows:
Construction, repair, and maintenance of roads and bridges, in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P130,000.00
Maintenance and repair of the Naguilian Baguio highway . . . . . 45,000.00
Construction and repair of schools, hospitals, and public buildings for provincial governments, and for other purposes, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000.00
(b) For public works and permanent improvements in the Province of Nueva Vizcaya, in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000.00
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275,000.00

Section 2. All balances of the several appropriations made by this Act unexpended on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall revert to the unappropriated funds in the Insular Treasury and thereafter shall not be available for withdrawal or expenditure except upon appropriation by the Legislature.ℒαwρhi৷

Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March 9, 1917.


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