[ Act No. 3813, December 08, 1930 ]
AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATION 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, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications and the provisions hereinafter set forth, for the purposes mentioned hereunder:
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Section 2. All balances of the several appropriations made by this Act the destination of which has not been determined by proper authority on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, and all balances of appropriations remaining free or unexpended on July thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, 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 (a), (i), (l), (ll), (m), (p), (q), (s), (u), (v), (x), and (y) shall be distributed in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications, but those appropriated in the other paragraphs shall be available for immediate expenditure by the Director of Public Works.
Section 4. Whenever it shall be determined that the revenues of the Government for the year nineteen hundred and thirty-one fall below the amount estimated in the Budget for that year, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of Finance to bring this fact to the attention of the Governor- General, who is hereby authorized to reduce the appropriations made in this Act for the purpose of making a saving not to exceed ten per centum of the total sum authorized by this Act.1aшphi1
Section 5. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and thirty-one.
Approved, December 8, 1930, with the exception of the following items: Section 1-paragraph (d), items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9; paragraph (f), items 3 and 5; paragraph (d), items 12-b, 22, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, and 43; paragraph (r), special provinces, item 6; paragraph (r), regularly organized provinces, items 5, 13, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, and 35; paragraph (t), items 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20; and paragraph (w).
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