Full Title
AN ACT APPROPRIATING ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THE NECESSARY EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS DURING THE FISCAL YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX AND PREVIOUS FISCAL YEARS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Date of Approval
December 3, 1926

Other Details

Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance Type

Official Gazette

Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 25 no. 19 page 517 (2/15/1927)

Full Text of Issuance

[ Act No. 3325, December 04, 1926 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THE NECESSARY EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS DURING THE FISCAL YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX AND PREVIOUS FISCAL YEARS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in additional  compensation of the service of the Philippine Government for the fiscal year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-six:A— THE EXECUTIVESPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS

1. Three per centum ofall sums appropriated for salaries of commissioner, superintendents, and supervisors of private schools, in accordance with the provisions of section 8 of Act No. 3050 P1,038.00
Total available for The Executive, to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses of said Office 1,038.00.

B.— SUPREME COURTMISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

1. Traveling expenses of personnel P50.00
2. Postal, telegraph, telephone, and cable service 372.00
3. Illumination and power service 25.00
4. Maintenance and repair of equipment 25.00
5. Other services 453.00
Total available for the Supreme Court, to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages, miscellaneous expenses, and purchase of equipment 925.00

BUREAUS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERALC.— BUREAU OF CIVIL SERVICEMISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

1. Maintenance and repair of equipment P100.00
Total available for the Bureau of Civil Service, to be taken from any appropriations for miscellaneous expenses of said Bureau 100.00

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIORD. PHILIPPINE CONSTABULARYSALARIES AND WAGESQUARTERMASTER DIVISION, PROPERTY SUBDIVISION, BODEGA SECTION

1. Unskilled laborers employed as mozos in the bodegas at general headquarters, in the Gagalangin corral, in various provinces as launch engineers, for the care of animals, transportation of supplies, and construction and repair of provisional buildings P 3,000.00

MISCELLANEOUS

2. Rental and commutation of quarters for officers 17,000.00

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

3. Illumination and power service 1,500.00
4. Consumption of supplies and materials 10,000.00
5. Rental of buildings and grounds 2,500.00
Total available for the Philippine Constabulary, to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses of said Bureau 34,000.00

E.— PHILIPPINE GENERAL HOSPITALSALARIES AND WAGESALLOWANCES

1. Subsistence of personnel in Manila P6,800.00

 MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

2. Consumption of supplies and materials 27,000.00
Less— sum to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses of said Hospital (20,520.00)   
Total additional appropriation available for the Philippine General Hospital 13,280.00

F.— OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC WELFARE COMMISSIONERSPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS

1. Education, care, and maintenance of children not infected with leprosy from Culion P25,000.00   
Less— sum to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses of said Office (10,000.00)
Total additional appropriation available for the Office of the Public Welfare Commissioner 15,000.00

G.— BOARDS OF MEDICAL, PHARMACEUTICAL, DENTAL, OPTICAL, AND NURSE EXAMINERSSALARIES AND WAGES

1. Fees for the chairmen and members of the Boards of Medical, Dental, Optical, and Nurse Examiners P4,000.00

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

2. Traveling expenses of personnel 60.00
3. Consumption of supplies and materials 110.00
4. Maintenance and repair of equipment 50.00
Less— sum to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses of said Office (220.00)
Total additional appropriation available for the Boards of Medical, Pharmaceutical, Dental, Optical, and Nurse Examiners 4,000.00

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTIONH.— PHILIPPINE HEALTH SERVICESALARIES AND WAGESDIVISION OP COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

1. Vaccinators, including one medical inspector in charge at P4,000 per annum, and chiefs and assistant chiefs of parties at a rate of compensation not to exceed P1,800 per annum each P6,750.00

SAN LAZARO HOSPITALGeneral Service Section

2. For servants, laundrymen, and other attendants and laborers; for emergency employees in case of epidemics; and for commutation of subsistence, quarters, and laundry 2,940.00

CULION LEPER COLONY

3. For servants, laundrymen, musicians, policemen, attendants, and other temporary employees 18,000.00

MISCELLANEOUS

4. Non-medical temporary employees for emergency cases and epidemics, laborers, and allowances herein authorized for subsistence, quarters, and laundry 4,200.00

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

5. Traveling expenses of personnel, including those of local medical officers specifically approved and payable from this fund by the Director and the Secretary of Public Instruction 4,400.00
6. Illumination and power service 1,000.00
7. Consumption of supplies and materials, including first uniform for newly appointed sanitary inspectors and for employees of hospitals and the Culion Leper Colony     113,000.00
 

Less&mdash sum to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses of said Office 

(51,390.00)
Total additional appropriation available for the Philippine Health Service 98,900.00

      I.— BUREAU OF QUARANTINE SERVICE      MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES                

1. Traveling expenses of personnel P 1,500.00
2. Freight, express, and delivery service 200.00
3. Postal, telegraph, telephone, and cable service 350.00
4. Other services 150.00
Total available for the Bureau of Quarantine Service, to be taken from any appropriations for miscellaneous expenses of said Bureau 2,200.00

      DEPARTMENT OF FINANCEBUREAU OF CUSTOMSMISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

1. Traveling expenses of personnel P500.00
2. Postal, telegraph, telephone, and cable service 1,000.00
3. Sundry expenses in connection with the secret service 2,000.00
4. Other services 4,000.00
Total available for the Bureau of Customs, to be taken from any appropriations for miscellaneous expenses of said Bureau 7,500.00

K.— BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUESALARIES AND WAGESMISCELLANEOUS

Temporary employees and storekeepers P4,800.00

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

2. Illumination and power service 200.00
3. Miscellaneous expenses in connection with the secret service 150.00
4. Other services 2,300.00
5. For expenses in connection with the return to the internal Revenue Commissioner of the United States of obsolete United States internal revenue stamps for cigars 24,000.00
Less— sum to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses of said Office (17,450.00)   
Total additional appropriation available for the Bureau of InternalRevenue 14,000.00

L.— BUREAU OF THE TKEASUBYSALARIES AND WAGESMISCELLANEOUS

1. Temporary employees P300.00

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

2. Printing and binding reports, documents, and publications 100.00

FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT

3. Purchase of furniture and equipment 100.00
Total available for the Bureau of the Treasury, to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses 500.00

M.— BUREAU OF PRINTINGSALARIES AND WAGESMISCELLANEOUS

1. Night and overtime work and temporary employees P9,000.00
Total additional appropriation available for the Bureau of Printing 9,000.00

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICEN.— BUREAU OF JUSTICEMISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

1. Postal, telegraph, telephone, and cable service P1,420.00
2. Illumination and power service 700.00
3. Consumption of supplies and materials 1,260.00
4. Maintenance and repair of equipment 790.00
Total available for the Bureau of Justice, to be taken-from any appropriations for miscellaneous expenses of said Bureau 4,170.00

O.— COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE AXD JUSTICE OFTHE PEACE COURTSSALARIES  AND WAGESJUSTICE OF THE PEACE COURTS 

1. Salaries of justices of the peace and auxiliary justices of the peace outside of the City of Manila P52,000.00

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

2. Consumption of supplies and materials P3,130.00
Total available for Courts of First Instance and Justice of the PeaceCourts, to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses of said Office 55,130.00

P.— GENERAL LAND REGISTRATION OFFICEMISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

1. Postal, telegraph, telephone, and cable service P900.00
2. Illumination and power service 600.00
3. Maintenance and repair of equipment 800.00
Total available for the General Land Registration Office, to be takenfrom any appropriations for miscellaneous expenses of said Office 2,300.00

      Q.— PHILIPPINE LIBRARY AND MUSEUMMISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

1. Postal, telegraph, telephone, and cable service P200.00
2. Maintenance and repair of equipment 9.00
3. Other services 170.00
Total available for the Philippine Library and Museum, to be taken from any appropriations for miscellaneous expenses of said Office 379.00

R.— BUREAU  OF PRISONS-PRISON DIVISIONMISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

1. Freight, express, and delivery service P5,000.00
2. Consumption of supplies and materials including meals for prisoners, families of penal colonists, and officers and employees of the Prison rendering not less than 12 hours service daily: Provided, That the amount for such subsistence shall not exceed the sum allowed by section 300 of the Revised Administrative Code 48,000.00
3. Traveling expenses of persons not Government employees 7,500.00
Less— sum to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses (10,000.00)
Total additional appropriation available for the Bureau of Prisons 50,500.00

S.— PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSIONMISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

1. Postal, telegraph, telephone, and cable service P440.00
2. Maintenance and repair of equipment 330.00

FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT               

3. Purchase of furniture and equipment 1,010.00
Total available for the Public Utility Commission, to be taken from anyappropriations for miscellaneous expenses of said Office 1,780.00

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCEST.— BUREAU OF AGRICULTURESALARIES AND WAGESMISCELLANEOUS

1. Temporary and emergency employees, skilled and semi-skilled laborers, including laborers for rice, corn, sugar-cane, cocoa, coffee, coconut, rubber, and lanzones cultivation stations, commercial citrus orchards, hemp experimental stations, breeding and testing experimental stations, immunizing and quarantine stations, and for the extermination of agricultural pests P6,000.00
Total available for the Bureau of Agriculture, to be taken from anyappropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses of said Bureau 6,000.00

U.— BUREAU OF FORESTRYMISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

1. Traveling expenses of personnel P2,000.00
2. Consumption of supplies and materials 6,350.00
3. Maintenance and repair of equipment 150.00
4. Other services 1,500.00
Total available for the Bureau of Forestry, to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses of said Bureau 10,000.00

V.— BUREAU OF LANDS               SPECIAL APPROPRIATION              

1. Homestead investigation and survey, Act No. 2874 P20,000.00
Total additional appropriation available for the Bureau of Lands 20,000.00

W.— BUREAU OF SCIENCEMISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

1. Traveling expenses of personnel P1,500.00
2. Freight, express, and delivery service 500.00
3. Illumination and power service 200.00
4. Maintenance and repair of equipment 1,000.00
Total available for the Bureau of Science, to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses of said Bureau 3,200.00

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND COMMUNICATIONSX.— BUREAU OF PUBLIC WORKSSALARIES AND WAGESMISCELLANEOUS

1. Skilled and semi-skilled laborers P650.00

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

2. Traveling expenses of personnel 4,000.00
3. Postal, telegraph, telephone, and cable service 3,300.00
4. Illumination and power service 600.00
5. Maintenance and repair of equipment 3,500.00
Total available for the Bureau of Public Works, to be taken from anyappropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses of said Bureau 12,050.00

Y.— BUREAU OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRYMISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

1. Freight, express, and delivery service P600.00
2. Consumption of supplies and materials 1,000.00
3. Traveling expenses of persons not Government employees 400.00
Total available for the Bureau of Commerce and Industry, to be taken from any appropriations for miscellaneous expenses of said Bureau 2,000.00

Z.— BUREAU OF LABORMISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES

1. Postal, telegraph, telephone, and cable service P200.00
2. Illumination and power service 300.00
3. Printing and binding reports, documents, and publications 500.00
4. Maintenance and repair of equipment 200.00
Total available for the Bureau of Labor, to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses of said Bureau 1,200.00

AA.— BUREAU OF SUPPLYMISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES 

1. To cover repayment of penalty imposed upon the Philippine Education Company, Incorporated, for delay in delivering certain supplies requisitioned by the Bureau of Education, through the Bureau of Supply P7,000.00
Total additional appropriation available for the Bureau of Supply 7,000.00

SEC. 2. The following additional sums, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to cover certain expenses of the Insular Government for the years nineteen hundred and twenty-two, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and nineteen hundred and twenty-five:A.— THE EXECUTIVESPECIAL APPROPRIATION

1. For scholarships in the United States or abroad during the year 1925 P10,000.00
Total available for the Executive, to be taken from any appropriations for salaries and wages and miscellaneous expenses of said Office for1926 10,000.00

B.— PHILIPPINE HEALTH SERVICESPECIAL APPROPRIATION

1. Consumption of supplies and materials during 1922 and 1923 in the Culion Leper Colony P33,680.00
Total additional appropriation available for the Philippine HealthService 33,680.00

SEC. 3.  The following sum, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be at the disposition of the Director of Public Works, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and  Communications, as a supplement to the public works funds appropriated in Act Numbered Thirty-two hundred and fifty-eight:A.— COMPLETION AND MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND OTHER UNCLASSIFIED PROJECTS

(a) For the maintenance, alteration, improvement, and repair of public buildings, including adjacent grounds P47,200.00
Total additional appropriation for the completion and maintenance ofpublic buildings and other unclassified projects 47,200.00
Total of appropriations made in this Act 312,560.00

SEC. 4. All unexpended balances of the appropriations for public works made in Acts Nos. 2736, 2786, 2898, 2980, 3044, 3113, 3145, 3213, and 2935 are hereby made available for expenditure up to December 31, 1927, any provision of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding.SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its approval.Approved, December 4, 1926.

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