[ Act No. 1076, March 05, 1904 ]

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A LOAN OF TWENTY THOUSAND PESOS, PHILIPPINE CURRENCY, TO THE PROVINCE OF ILOCOS SUR, EIGHT THOUSAND PESOS TO THE PROVINCE OF ROMBLON, AND SIX THOUSAND PESOS TO THE PROVINCE OF ABRA, FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL RELIEF FUND, FOR USE IN THE CONSTRUCTION IN SAID PROVINCES OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF SECONDARY INSTRUCTION.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted the Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, from any funds of the Congressional relief fund not otherwise appropriated, the following sums in Philippine currency, to be loaned to the provinces hereinafter designated, for expenditure under the direction of the respective provincial boards, in the construction of the necessary building or buildings for a secondary school of public instruction in such locality in each of the said provinces as may be selected by the provincial board and approved by the General Superintendent of Education, and for no other purpose:

1. To the Province of Ilocos Sur, twenty thousand pesos to he repaid to the Insular Treasury as follows: Five thousand pesos Philippine currency, within one year from the date of the acceptance of the loan, and five thousand pesos each year thereafter until the full amount of the loan has been satisfied.
2. To the Province of Bomblon, eight thousand pesos, to be repaid to the insular Treasury as follows: Two thousand pesos within one year from the date of the acceptance of the loan, and three thousand pesos each year thereafter until the full amount of the loan has been satisfied.
3. To the Province of Abra, six thousand pesos, to be repaid the Insular Treasury as follows: One thousand two hundred pesos within one year from the date of the acceptance of the loan, and one thousand two hundred pesos each year thereafter until the full amount of the loan has been satisfied.

SEC. 2. The money appropriated by section one of this Act for loans to each of the provinces therein designated shall be paid by the Insular Treasurer to the treasurer of each province concerned, on the presentation to the Insular Treasurer of a certified copy of a resolution of the provincial board of such province accepting the loan and agreeing to repay the same, without interest, in accordance with the provisions of said section one. The moneys so loaned shall, when repaid to the Insular Treasury, be returned to the fund from which appropriated.SEC. 3. The plans and specifications for the construction of the buildings provided for by this Act shall be prepared by the Chief of the Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings, and the buildings when constructed, together with the tracts of land upon which the same are situated, and the schools when established, shall be under the supervisory control of the Department of Public Instruction.SEC. 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.Enacted, March 5, 1904.

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