Act No. 2689 | Senate of the Philippines Legislative Reference Bureau

.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. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for public works and permanent improvements in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu during the fiscal year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications, as follows:

(a)	For the construction of trails on the islands of Mindanao and Sulu, and for cleaning navigable rivers and channels ................................	P230,000.00
(b)	For the construction and improvement of bridges on the islands of Mindanao and Sulu.......................................................................	50,000.00
(c)	For the construction and improvement of roads on the islands of Mindanao and Sulu......................................................................	60,000.00
(d)	For the improvement and maintenance of the Zamboanga-San Ramon road..................................................................................	15,000.00
(e)	For the improvement and maintenance of the Iligan-Dansalan road	25,000.00
(f)	For the construction of two hundred and fifty kilometers of telephone lines, at an average cost of P200 per kilometer...............	50,000.00
(g)	For the construction of a simple type of sanitary public market in various municipal districts..............................................................	P25,000.00
(h)	For the construction, reconstruction, improvement, and investigation of ports, wharves, piers, retaining walls and breakwaters, and dredging in the several provinces of the Department......................	75,000.00
(i)	For the drilling of artesian wells and the survey and construction of municipal waterworks....................................................................	50,000.00
(j)	For improving by drainage, etc., the sanitary conditions of provincial capitals other than Zamboanga where provincial and municipal funds are in adequate....................................................	20,000.00

	Total .............................................................	600,000.00

SEC. 2. In view of the peculiar conditions of a transitory character prevailing in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, and in order to give the government of said department the necessary facilities for properly confronting any emergency that may arise, the administrative council of the department is hereby authorized, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to transfer any of the appropriations herein before specified wholly or partially from one item to any other item herein specified.SEC. 3. All balances of the several appropriations made by this Act unexpended on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall be reverted to the unappropriated funds in the Insular Treasury, and thereafter shall not be available for withdrawal or expenditure except upon appropriation by the Legislature.SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.Approved, March 9, 1917.

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