[ Act No. 2395, March 07, 1914 ]

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CURRENT EXPENSES AND PUBLIC WORKS AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS OF THE PROVINCE OF NUEVA VIZCAYA AND THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE AND FOR PUBLIC "WORKS-AND PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS OF THE BUREAU OF HEALTH IN THE TERRITORY INHABITED BY MOROS OR OTHER NON-CHRISTIAN TRIBES FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED FOURTEEN.

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, for current expenses and public works and permanent improvements of the Province of Nueva Vizcaya and the Mountain Province and for public works and permanent improvements of the Bureau of Health in the territory inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes, for the year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred fourteen.

PROVINCE OF NUEVA VIZCAYA.
Current expenses.
(a) For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at four thousand pesos per annum, with quarters; assistant to the provincial governor for work among the Ilongots, at one thousand six hundred pesos per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; share of Nueva Vizcaya of the salary of the fiscal for the Mountain Province and Nueva Vizcaya; proportionate part of the salaries of the clerks to the fiscal and the district auditor; 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 actual and necessary traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six; purchase of supplies; transportation of supplies; purchase of equipment, including school, road, and transportation equipment; maintenance of equipment; office expenses; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance of schools; allowance for one pensionado, including matriculation fee; purchase and transportation of medicines; seeds; premiums on surety bonds; insurance on buildings; rents; maintenance and operation of official transportation; maintenance of prisoners; uniforms for jail guards; maintenance of jail guards on Bagabag-Isabela road; alteration, maintenance, and repair of buildings; maintenance of the Padre Juan Villaverde trail; 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; maintenance and operation of launch; 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 "Provincial Government of Lepanto-Bontoc;" and other incidental expenses	44,500.00
Public works and permanent improvements.
(b) For improvement of salt plant at Salinas; for improvement of Ilongot trail; for improvement and extension of telephone system; for widening and improving the Padre Juan Villaverde trail from Santa Fe to Imugan; for surfacing ten kilometers of Bagabag-Isabela road, including the purchase of a rock crusher; and for an irrigation project at Calabgan (east coast)	27,300.00
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Total for the Province of Nueva Vizcaya	71,800.00
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Current expenses.
(c) For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at six thousand 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 thotisand pesos per annum during such time as he remains in general charge of railroad grading in the sub-province of Benguet, to be paid by the railroad company; lieutenant-governor of Amburayan and Lepanto, at four thousand five hundred pesos per annum; assistant to the lieutenant-gov-'ernor of Lepanto, at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Apayao, at four thousand pesos per annum; assistant to the lieutenant-governor of Apayao, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Bontoc, at four thousand pesos per annum; Provided, That this position shall be filled only in the absence of either the provincial governor or the secretary-treasurer; assistant to the lieutenant-governor of Bontoc, at three hundred and sixty 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; provincial secretary-treasurer, at six thousand pesos per annum; provincial supervisor, at four thousand pesos per annum, until March fifteenth, nineteen hundred fourteen; assistant to the provincial supervisor, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; share of the Mountain Province of the salary of the fiscal of the Mountain Province and Nueva Vizcaya; proportionate part of the salaries of the clerks to the fiscal and 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; purchase of supplies; transportation of supplies; purchase of equipment, including school, road and transportation equipment ; maintenance of equipment; office expenses; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance and operation of official transportation; maintenance and operation of launches and vessels; maintenance of schools; 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; operation of land transportation; maintenance of public animals, including breeding animals loaned by the Bureau of Agriculture; 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	140,600.00
Public works and 'permanent improvements.
Bontoc Hospital division.
(d) For the construction of a cut-off on the Baguio-Bontoc Road from a point in the vicinity of kilometer 88, to Sa-bangan	10,000.00
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Total for the Mountain Province	150,600.00
BUREAU OF HEALTH
Miscellaneous.
Bontoc Hospital division.
(e) For general maintenance, alteration and repair of buildings of the Bontoc Hospital Division	1,000.00
(f) For the alteration, maintenance and repair of buildings in the Mountain Province, Nueva Vizcaya, Agusan, and the Department of Mindanao and Sulu	2,000.00
(g) 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	6,000.00
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Total for the Bureau of Health	3,000.00
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Total of appropriations by this Act	231,400.000

SEC. 2. Subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the provincial boards of Nueva Vizcaya and the Mountain Province may expend on permanent improvements funds appropriated for current expenses.SEC. 3, This Act shall take effect as of January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen. Enacted, March 7, 1914.

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