[ Act No. 1992, June 08, 1910 ]

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY EXPENSES OF THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS OF AGUSAN, NUEVA VIZCAYA, AND THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, FOR INSULAR EXPENSES IN THE SAID PROVINCES AND THE MORO PROVINCE FOR THE PERIOD ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, AND THEREAFTER.

By authority of the United States be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: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, in part compensation for the service of the provincial governments of Agusan, Nueva Vizcaya, and the Mountain Province and for Insular expenses in the said provinces and the Moro Province for the period ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and thereafter until expended:

PROVINCE  OF  AGUSAN.For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor for the subprovince of Bukidnon, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; assistant to provincial governor for western Bukidnon, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; assistant to provincial governor for upper Agusan, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; assistant to provincial governor in the Hibong District, at one thousand two hundred pesos per annum; for clerk to the provincial governor, at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; for per diems of the third member of the provincial board; for two-eighths of the salary of the fiscal for the district of Agusan, Misamis, and Surigao, two-eighths of the salary of the clerk to said fiscal, and for a proportionate part of the salaries of clerks to the district auditor; and for salaries and wages of such employees as may be authorized by resolution of the provincial board, with the approval of the Executive Secretary; for general provincial expenses, including the actual and necessary traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees, under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six; for the transportation of supplies; for the purchase of office furniture and supplies; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance of official transportation; alteration, maintenance, and repair of provincial buildings; rents; maintenance and repair of bridges, roads, and trails, and telephone lines, and removal of obstructions in rivers; maintenance of public animals, including breeding animals loaned by the Bureau of Agriculture; court expenses ; subsistence of prisoners; sanitary and burial fund for indigent persons; proportionate part of the fees for bonds of officers; maintenance of launches; for a fund to be expended by the provincial governor in the manner funds are provided to be expended by Act Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two, under the head of "Provincial government of Lepanto-Bontoc;" and other incidental expenses; forty-seven thousand pesos: Provided, That the provisions of sections two and three of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and forty-five are hereby extended to and made applicable to the third member of the provincial board of the Province of Agusan, but all resolutions of the provincial board fixing the per diems to be paid such third member shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.PROVINCIAL  GOVERNMENT  OF  NUEVA  VIZCAYA.For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; assistant to the provincial governor for work among the Ilongots, at one thousand six hundred pesos per annum; for salaries and wages of such employees as may be authorized by resolution of the provincial board, with the approval of the Executive Secretary; for return traveling expenses of the provincial governor from the United States; twelve uniforms for jail guards, eighty-four pesos; for general provincial expenses including the actual and necessary traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees, under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six; for the transportation of supplies; for the purchase of office furniture and supplies; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance of official transportation; alteration, maintenance, and repair of provincial buildings: rents; for the maintenance of the Padre Juan Villaverde trail from San Nicolas, Pangasinan, to Bayombong, Nueva Yizcaya; for the maintenance and repair of other roads, bridges, and trails, and telephone lines, and the removal of obstructions in rivers; and maintenance of public animals, including breeding animals loaned by the Bureau of Agriculture; court expenses; subsistence of prisoners; sanitary and burial fund for indigent persons; for a fund to be expended by the provincial governor in the manner funds are provided to be expended by Act Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two, under the head of "Provincial government of Lepanto-Bontoe;" and other incidental expenses ; twenty-four thousand pesos.PROVINCIAL  GOVERNMENT  OF  THE  MOUNTAIN  PROVINCE.For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at six thousand pesos per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer, at five thousand pesos per annum; provincial supervisor, at four thousand pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Benguet, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Amburayan, at two thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Lepanto, at three thousand pesos per annum ; lieutenant-governor of Apayao, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Bontoc, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Kalinga, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; for proportionate part of the salary of lieutenant-governor of Ifugao, one thousand two hundred pesos per annum; for a proportionate part of the salaries of clerks to the district auditor; for salaries and wages of such employees as may be authorized by resolution of the provincial board, with the approval of the Executive Secretary; for general provincial expenses, including the actual and necessary traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees, under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six; for sheriff's fees; for the transportation of supplies; for the purchase of office furniture and supplies; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance of official transportation; alteration, maintenance, and repair of provincial buildings; rents; maintenance and repair of bridges, roads, and trails, and telephone lines, and removal of obstructions in rivers; maintenance of public animals, including breeding animals loaned by the Bureau of Agriculture; court expenses; subsistence of prisoners; sanitary and burial fund for indigent persons; premiums on surety bonds; for a fund to be expended by the provincial governor in the manner funds are provided to be expended by Act Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two, under the head of "Provincial government of Lepanto-Bontoc;" and other incidental expenses; one hundred and five thousand pesos.BUREAU  OF  CONSTABULARY,For salaries and wages and duly authorized contingent expenses of the Bureau of Constabulary for use in the Moro Province, the Mountain Province, and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya, seven hundred thousand pesos.BUREAU  OF  HEALTH.For salaries and wages of district health officer, Mountain Province, at four thousand pesos per annum; district health officer, Nueva Vizcaya, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; district health officer, Agusan, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; assistant sanitary inspector, Mountain Province, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum; seven assistant sanitary inspectors, at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum each; for emergency sanitary inspectors; contingent expenses, including medicines and supplies; traveling expenses; per diems; and other incidental expenses; twenty-eight thousand pesos.BUREAU  OF  LANDS.For the expenses of survey parties in Agusan, Nueva Vizcaya, Mountain Province, and the Moro Province, twenty thousand pesos.BUREAU  OF  AGRICULTURE,For salaries and wages of two veterinarians, Mountain Province, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum each; two veterinarians, Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum each; for one-half of the salary of the superintendent, Baguio Experiment Station, Mountain Province; seed distributer, Mountain Province, at nine hundred and sixty pesos per annum; eight inoculators, Mountain Province and Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya, at five hundred and forty pesos per annum each; contingent expenses, including serum and supplies, seeds and plants, traveling expenses and per diems for four veterinarians and eight inoculators; and other incidental expenses; forty thousand pesos.BUREAU  OF  FORESTRY,For salaries and wages of foresters, rangers, and temporary fire wardens; for contingent expenses; in the Moro Province, the Mountain Province, and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya; six thousand pesos.BUREAU  OF  EDUCATION.For salaries and wages and contingent expenses in the Mountain Province and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya, including official transportation; cost of maintenance and clothing of pupils at industrial schools, in the discretion of the Secretary of Public Instruction, two hundred and fifteen thousand pesos.MISCELLANEOUS.For a special fund to be expended, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for such purposes as may be considered necessary in establishing and promoting friendly relations with non-Christian tribes and suppressing head-hunting, six thousand pesos.Total of appropriations for all purposes, one million one hundred and ninety-one thousand pesos.

SEC. 2. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as removing the administrative jurisdiction of the Director of Constabulary, the Director of Health, the Director of Agriculture, the Director of Forestry, or the Director of Education over their respective Bureaus in any of the provinces mentioned in this Act.SEC. 3. 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.Enacted, June 8, 1910.

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