[ Act No. 2186, June 17, 1912 ]

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY EXPENSES OF THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS OF AGUSAN, NUEVA VIZEAYA, AND THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, FOR INSULAR EXPENSES IN THE SAID PROVINCES AND THE MORO PROVINCE FOR THE PERIOD ENDING DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWELVE.

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 Vizeaya, and the Mountain Province and for Insular expenses in the said provinces and the Moro Province for the period ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twelve, and thereafter until expended.

PROVINCE   OF   AGUSAN."For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at five thousand five 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; one assistant to the provincial governor, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; two assistants to the provincial governor, at one thousand two hundred pesos per annum each; one assistant to the provincial governor at a compensation of six hundred pesos per annum, in addition to pay and allowances as an officer of the Philippine Constabulary; one assistant to the provincial governor, at a compensation of five hundred pesos per annum, in addition to pay and allowances as an officer of the Philippine Constabulary; one assistant to the provincial governor for Bukidnon, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; one assistant to the provincial governor for Bukidnon, at seven hundred and twenty pesos per annum; for per diems of the third member of the provincial board; two-eighths of the salary of the fiscal for the district of Agusan, Misamis, and Surigao, and for 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; one storekeeper at Malaybalay, at thirty pesos per month and a percentage of sales to be fixed by the provincial treasurer, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior; for the payment to Governor Frederick Johnson in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior of six months' leave in accordance with section twenty-five (d) of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and ninety-eight: and for salaries and wages of such employees as may he authorized by resolution of the provincial board, with the approval of the Executive Secretary; for general provincial expenses including actual and necessary traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six; for transportation of supplies; for the purchase of office supplies; printing and binding; postage and telegrams; maintenance of official transportation; for land transportation equipment, including work animals and saddle horses; seeds; alteration, maintenance, and repair of provincial buildings; maintenance of equipment; rents; maintenance and repair of bridges, roads, and trails, and telephone lines, and the removal of obstructions in rivers; maintenance of public animals, including breeding animals loaned by the Bureau of Agriculture; court expenses: maintenance of prisoners; maintenance and operation of launches: sanitary and burial fund for indigent persons; proportionate part of the fees for bonds of officers; 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: twenty-eight 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   GOVEBNMENT   OF    NUEVA   VIZCAYA.For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at four thousand pesos per annum: provincial secretary-treasurer, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; assistant to the provincial governor for work among the llongots, at one thousand six hundred pesos per annum; for the share of Nneva Vizcaya of the salary of the fiscal for the Mountain Province and Nueva Vizcaya; for salaries and wages of such employees as may be authorized by resolution of the provincial hoard, with the approval of the Executive Secretary; seven uniforms for jail guards, forty-nine 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 supplies; postage and telegrams; printing and binding: premiums on surely bonds: rents: maintenance of official transportation: maintenance of prisoners: maintenance of jail guards on Bagabag-lsabela Road: alteration, maintenance, and repair of buildings; for the maintenance of the Padre Juan Villaverde trail: for the maintenance and repair of other roads, bridges, and trails, and telephone lines, and the removal of obstructions in rivers; maintenance of public animals, including breeding animals loaned by the Bureau of Agriculture; court expenses; sanitary and burial fund for indigent persons; for one launch, including purchase, maintenance, and operation; for a fund to be expended by the provincial governor in the mariner funds are provided to be expended by Act Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two under the bead "Provincial government of Lepanto-Bontoc:" and other incidental expenses: nineteen thousand eight hundred and fifty 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; provincial exchange officer, at four thousand pesos per annum; assistant to the provincial supervisor, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Benguet, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; and for an addition to his salary at the rate of one thousand pesos per annum during such time as lie remains in general charge of railroad grading in the subprovince of Benguet; lieutenant-governor of Amburayan, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Lepanto, at three thousand pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Apayao, at four thousand pesos per annum: lieutenant-governor of Bontoc, at four thousand pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Kalinga, at four thousand pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Ifugao, at one thousand six hundred pesos per annum, in addition to compensation as an officer of the Philippine Constabulary; for the share of the Mountain Province of the salary of the fiscal of the Mountain Province and Nueva Vizcaya; 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 land transportation equipment; for the purchase of office supplies; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance of official transportation; maintenance of equipment; maintenance and operation of launches and vessels; alteration, maintenance, and repair of provincial buildings; renls: maintenance and repair of bridges, roads, and trails, and telephone lines and removal of obstructions in rivers; operation of land transportation; maintenance of public animals, including breeding animals loaned by the Bureau of Agriculture; court expenses: maintenance of prisoners; uniforms of guards; 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; sixty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty pesos.BUREAU OF AUDITS.For salaries and wages and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Audits, in the territory inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes, four thousand six hundred pesos.BUREAU   OF   CONSTABULARY.For salaries and wages and duly authorized contingent expenses of the Bureau of Constabulary, including maintenance and repair of Insular buildings, for use in the Moro Province, the Mountain Province, and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya, three hundred and fifty-four thousand two hundred and fifty pesos.BUREAU  OF   HEALTH.Bontoc Hospital Division:One chief of Bontoc Hospital division and district health officer at five thousand pesos per annum, one resident physician and surgeon and assistant district health officer at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum, with subsistence and quarters; one superintendent, cashier and housekeeper at two thousand and forty pesos per annum, one chief nurse at one thousand nine hundred and twenty pesos per annum, two nurses at one thousand four hundred and forty pesos per annum each, two nurses at seven hundred and eighty pesos per annum each, two nurses at seven hundred and twenty pesos per annum each, with subsistence, quarters, and laundry; one pharmacist at one thousand and eighty pesos per annum, two employees at seven hundred and twenty pesos per annum each, one employee at nine hundred and forty pesos: per annum, thirteen employees at twelve pesos per month each, hire of temporary  and  emergency employees  as necessary, with subsistence and quarters.Butuan Hospital Division:One house doctor at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum, two nurses at one thousand four hundred and forty pesos per annum each, with subsistence, quarters and laundry; one pharmacist and clerk at one thousand and eighty pesos per annum, five employees at twelve pesos per month each, one employee at six hundred pesos per annum, hire of temporary and emergency employees as necessary, with subsistence and quarters.District health officer, Nueva Vizcaya, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; district health officer, Agusan, at three thousand six hundred pesos two thousand four hundred pesos per annum each; nine assistant sanitary inspectors at seven hundred and twenty pesos per annum each; one hospital attendant and one nurse at three hundred pesos per annum each; for emergency employees, including hospital employees, inspectors in case of epidemic and laborers; for emergency sanitary inspectors; contingent expenses, including medicines and supplies; for two ice machines, including purchase, freight, and installation: traveling expenses; per diems, and other incidental expenses; in all fifty-four thousand four hundred pesos; Provided,  That the Bontoc Hospital and the Butuan Hospital shall be administered by the Bureau of Health, and rules governing the admission of patients, charges for hospital service, and hospital administration, shall be made by the Director of Health with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.BUREAU   OF   LANDS.For the expenses of survey parties and the expense of making free-patent, homestead, and other public land inspections, in Agusan, Nueva Vizcaya, Mountain Province, and the Moro Province, twelve thousand five hundred pesos.BUREAU  OF  FORESTRY.For salaries and wages of three  foresters, class  live: one forester, class six; one forest nurseryman, class six; one head ranger, Class C; one head ranger, Class F; two rangers, Class H; two rangers, Class I; one clerk, Class II; for hire of laborers and temporary employees; accrued leave of absence;  salary  allowance to employees appointed outside of the Philippine Islands and for contingent expenses, including purchase and repair of office and field equipment and furniture; purchase of office supplies; per diems of officers and employees; traveling expenses and transportation of officers, employees and supplies; cablegrams; postage and telegrams; per diems of fifty centavos each, in lieu of cost of forage for horses to be furnished by forest officers or owned by the Bureau as means of official transportation; purchase of specimen forest products; preparation and installation of a forest museum at Zamboanga; transportation and refund of traveling expenses of employees from the United States to Manila after expiration of contract service; construction of temporary and permanent buildings to be used as quarters and offices for forest officers; rents; salaries, traveling expenses and per diems of such forest officers who may from time to time be temporarily detailed to the above-mentioned provinces; and for other incidental expenses; for the salary of a forest nurseryman to assist in the establishment of a forest park and to supervise tree planting in the city of Baguio, and for reimbursement of expenditures made for such purpose by the city of Baguio; and for the payment of the salaries and expenses herein authorized for the Bureau of Forestry, there is hereby appropriated an amount equal to five per centum of the receipts from forest products for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve.BUREAU   OF   EDUCATION.For salaries and wages of one division superintendent, at four thousand pesos per annum; one-third-of the salary of one division superintendent, at four thousand pesos per annum: one division superintendent, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; one-third of the salary of one division superintendent, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, Class D; one clerk, Class H; one clerk, Class J: two teachers, class six; six teachers, class seven; six teachers, at three thousand pesos per annum each: six teachers, class eight; three teachers, at two thousand six hundred pesos per annum each; five teachers, class nine; one teacher, at one thousand nine hundred and ninety-two pesos per annum; two teachers, Class G; fourteen teachers, Class H; twenty-four teachers, Class I; four teachers, at five hundred and forty pesos per annum each; twenty-seven teachers. Class J; nine teachers, at four hundred and twenty pesos per annum each; twenty-six teachers, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each; twenty-one teachers, at three hundred pesos per annum each; thirty-one teachers at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each; accrued leaves and allowances: Provided, That the Director of Education, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, may designate certain teachers for continuous duty throughout the school vacation periods in cases where the good of tin1 service makes this action advisable, such teachers to be entitled to the leave privileges provided in section twenty-three (a) of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and ninety-eight in lieu of the vacation privileges granted to teachers in section twenty-three (d) of said Act: for contingent expenses, including the purchase of books, tools, and miscellaneous supplies; traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees traveling on official business; transportation of supplies: maintenance and clothing of pupils; allowances and traveling expenses of ten students to be selected from the Mountain Province and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya to pursue a course in training for teaching, subject to the provisions contained in Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and eighty-three of the Philippine Legislature: Provided, That such students shall not be subject to the scholarship requirement of said Act and may receive the training hereby provided for in any school of the Philippine Islands selected by the Director of Education; and other incidental expenses; one hundred and seventeen thousand eight hundred and fifty pesos.BUREAU  OF  AGRICULTURE.For salaries and wages of two employees, class six, Mountain Province: one employee, class six, Province of Nueva Vizcaya; one employee, class seven, Province of Agusan; one-half salary of the superintendent of Trinidad Garden; for hire of inspectors, laborers and other temporary employees, including labor on the farms; contingent expenses, including per diems and traveling expenses of employees; seeds, plants and fertilizers, including seeds for distribution: tools and implements; for the establishment of cooperative demonstration work at Bayombong, Quiangan, Banaue, Lubuagan, Cervantes, and other points in the Mountain Province and in the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Agusan; and for other incidental expenses; total, twenty-five 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 headhunting, three thousand pesos.Total of appropriations for all purposes except for Bureau of Forestry, six hundred and eighty-five thousand and four hundred pesos.

SEC. 2. Subject to approval of the head of the proper Department, provincial boards or chiefs of Bureau or Offices may expend on permanent improvements funds appropriated for current expenses.SEC. 3. Nothing in this Act shall he construed as removing the administrative jurisdiction of the Insular Auditor, the Director of Constabulary, the Director of Health, the Director of Lands, the Director of Forestry, the Director of Education, or the Director of Agriculture over their respective Bureaus in any of the Provinces mentioned in this Act.SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, except as herein otherwise provided.Enacted, June  11, 1912.

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