[ Act No. 2980, February 21, 1921 ]
AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC WORKS.
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. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be at the disposal of the Director of Public Works for the purposes mentioned hereunder, subject to the provisions hereinafter set forth.
(See Table of ACTS No. 2980 IN PUBLIC LAWS PHILIPPINE LEGISLATURE VOLUME 16 Page 213 to Page 219)
Section 2. All balances of the several appropriations made by this Act the destination of which has not yet been determined by the proper authority on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and all balances of appropriations which remain unexpended on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, shall revert to the unappropriated funds in the Insular Treasury, and thereafter shall not be available for expenditure except upon appropriation by the Legislature.
Section 3. The sums appropriated in paragraphs (f), (h), and (n) of this Act shall be available for immediate expenditure by the Director of Public Works, but those appropriated in the other paragraphs shall be distributed in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications, sunject to the approval of the presiding officers of both Houses of the Legislature. Subject to the same approval, the Secretary of Commerce and Communications is authorized, for the purposes of said distribution, to transfer unexpended portions of any item of appropriation under this Act to any other item hereunder.
Section 4.ℒαwρhi৷ This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, February 21, 1921.
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