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fully settled, incurred on account of the widening and extension of

streets.

For the erection of permanent street monuments, one thousand pesos.

In all for public works, forty-two thousand one hundred and fortyeight pesos and eighty centavos.

Total of appropriations for all purposes, three million twenty-eight thousand one hundred and forty-eight pesos and eighty centavos: Provided, That with the approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice, the Municipal Board may direct the Auditor to transfer funds from the appropriation for salaries and wages to that for contingent expenses, and vice versa, within any department when the public service so demands.

SEC. 2. In all cases in which provision for a position or employment heretofore provided by law is not made by this Act, such position or employment is hereby authorized from July first, nineteen hundred and six, until not later than fifteen days after the passage of this Act, and any funds appropriated for salaries and wages for the department or office to which the position or employment pertains are hereby made available for payment of the services rendered.

SEC. 3. Upon the approval of the Municipal Board first had, a vacancy in a position of any class may be filled by the appointment of one person or more of a lower class: Provided, That the aggregate of salaries paid is not greater than the salary authorized by law for that position.

SEC. 4. All positions and employments authorized by this Act, the compensations of which are not stated at a per annum rate, shall be in the unclassified service, and no privileges provided by Act Numbered One thousand and forty shall accrue to appointees to such positions: Provided. That all appointments and separations above the grade of semiskilled laborer under the provisions of this section shall be reported to the Bureau of Civil Service by the proper chief of department or office in case of discharge, stating reasons therefor: And provided further, That unless otherwise authorized by law, no payment shall be made for overtime work.

SEC. 5. The Secretary of Finance and Justice may, in his discretion, commute accrued leave of absence to persons ons entitled thereto, and authorize payment of the amount so accrued in a gross sum from the appropriation from which their salaries should properly be paid. SEC. 6. The appropriations hereinbefore made for each department or office shall be available for payment of authorized commutations of accrued leave of absence of the officers and employees thereof, and for payment of such expenses as may accrue to such departments and offices by reason of the operations of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and nine.

SEC. 7. Unclassified employees of the municipal government, including laborers, who are injured in clear line of duty, may, in the discretion of the Municipal Board and with the approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice, continue to receive their regular compensation during the period of disability, not exceeding ninety days: Provided, That the Secretary of Finance and Justice may, in his discretion, authorize payment of medical attendance, necessary transportation, and hospital fees for officers and employees injured

in clear line of duty, but such payment shall not be made from the appropriation for "general purposes" when the department or office concerned has an available appropriation for contingent expenses or public works, as the case may be, from which such payment can be made, nor shall the provisions of this section be construed to cover sickness as distinguished from physical wounds.

SEC. 8. All balances remaining unexpended when any public works or permanent improvements appropriated for by this Act are completed and accounts settled shall be returned at once to the Treasury of the Philippine Islands and shall not thereafter be available for withdrawal or disbursement under this Act.

SEC. 9. The provisions of the first paragraph of section three of Act Numbered Eight hundred and seven, providing the manner in which withdrawals of moneys appropriated in said Act shall be made, are hereby made applicable to the withdrawal of money appropriated under this Act.

SEC. 10. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this appropriation 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. 11. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, October 20, 1906.

[No. 1547.]

AN ACT Appropriating the sum of one million eight hundred and thirty-four thousand pesos from the funds realized from the sale of bonds authorized by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and twenty-three, for the purpose of constructing sewers in the city of Manila and to furnish it with an adequate sewer and drainage system and supply of water.

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 the funds realized from the sale of bonds authorized by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and twenty-three, for the construction of the proposed sewer and watersupply systems in the city of Manila:

DEPARTMENT OF SEWER AND WATERWORKS CONSTRUCTION.

For salaries and wages of the chief engineer, at twelve thousand pesos per annum; two principal assistant engineers, at eight thousand pesos per annum each; two assistant engineers, at six thousand pesos per annum each; two assistant engineers, at four thousand pesos per annum each; four assistant engineers, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum each; one chief draftsman, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; two levelmen, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum each; two draftsmen, at eight hundred and forty pesos per annum each; one clerk, Class F; hire of temporary inspectors as may be necessary; reimbursement at the rate of three thousand nine hundred pesos per annum to the appropriation "Salaries and wages, Municipal Board," city of Manila, on account of

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services rendered by the disbursing office, city of Manila; hire of labor as may be necessary; and for contingent expenses, including the purchase and repair of field equipment, furniture, instruments, supplies, and tools; advertising; cablegrams; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; official transportation; maintenance of road along pipe line; expropriation of property for sites of sewer pumping stations; payments on contracts for sewer construction; payments on contracts for waterworks construction; customs duties; and incidental expenses; one million eight hundred and thirty-four thousand pesos.

SEC. 2. The provisions of sections two, three, four, five, six, and seven of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and forty-six are hereby made applicable to the department of sewer and waterworks construction.

SEC. 3. The funds appropriated by this Act shall be expended in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and twenty-three.

SEC. 4. 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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, October 20, 1906.

[No. 1548.]

AN ACT To amend the Provincial Government Act, by increasing the power of provinces in the matter of appropriation of provincial funds.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commisison, that:

SECTION 1. Section thirteen of the Provincial Government Act, Numbered Eighty-three, is hereby amended by striking out paragraph (nn) and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"(nn) To appropriate, in its discretion, moneys from any of its funds in excess of all just debts and liabilities falling due within the fiscal year, except those funds the use of which is otherwise specifically fixed by law, for loans to municipalities of the province, under such conditions as to the use of the funds loaned and as to the repayment of the loans with interest at three per centum per annum, as may be fixed by the provincial board: Provided, That the entire indebtedness of any municipality to which a loan is made shall not, inclusive of such loan, exceed five per centum of the assessed valuation of the property in said municipality;

"To provide, in its discretion, for the payment from provincial funds of their regular compensation during the period of their disability, not exceeding ninety days, to unclassified employees of the provincial government, including laborers, when said employees or laborers are injured in the clear line of duty; the necessary expenses of medical attendance, transportation, and hospital fees for such injured employees or laborers, and in case of their death from said injuries, their reasonable burial expenses may likewise, in the discretion of the provincial board, be paid from provincial funds;

"To appropriate moneys accruing to the provincial road and bridge fund for the purpose of providing and maintaining wharves, piers, and docks in accordance with plans and specifications furnished by the Bureau of Port Works, and removing obstructions to navigation within the limits of the province;

"To appropriate moneys from any of its funds, except those the use of which is otherwise specifically fixed by law, for other purposes having in view the general welfare of the province and its inhabitants;

"Provided, That no appropriation made pursuant to the provisions of this subsection shall be valid or take effect until it shall have been approved by the Governor-General, or unless and until thirty days after the receipt of due notice thereof by the Governor-General shall have passed without the disapproval of the Governor-General having been given."

SEC. 2. 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. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, October 24, 1906.

[No. 1549.]

AN ACT Increasing the number of municipalities in the Province of Batangas from sixteen to seventeen, by separating from Taal the former municipality of Lemery, reconstituting the latter as a municipality, and giving the same the territory which it comprised prior to the passage of Act Numbered Seven hundred and eight.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. The sixteen municipalities of the Province of Batangas, as established by Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and fourteen, shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be increased to seventeen, by separating the former municipality of Lemery from the present municipality of Taal. The municipality of Taal shall consist of its present territory minus that of Lemery, which is hereby reconstituted a municipality and shall consist of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of Act Numbered Seven hundred and eight.

SEC. 2. The municipal election for the reconstituted municipality of Lemery shall be held at the time of the next regular municipal elections in the Province of Batangas in accordance with the rules contained in Act Numbered Seven hundred and thirty, as amended by Act Numbered Nine hundred and twenty-eight, but the officers thus elected shall not take office nor shall the said reconstituted municipality come into existence until the first Monday in January following said election. The changes herein provided for shall in no way interfere with the number of officers to be elected or with the holding in the regular manner of the municipal election in the municipality of Taal, unless through the operation of this Act the class of said municipality, as fixed under section four of the Municipal Code, is raised or lowered, in which case the number of councilors elected shall be as prescribed in Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and thirty-three.

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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, October 25, 1906.

[No. 1550.]

AN ACT Consolidating the present municipality of Casiguran with the municipality of Baler, both in the Province of Tayabas, and annexing the barrios of Cabulihan, San Roque, and Calantas with the sitios of Anos and Tubas, of the municipality of Gumaca, to the municipality of Pitogo, in the same province.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission that:

SECTION 1. The municipality of Casiguran, in the Province of Tayabas, is hereby annexed to and consolidated with the municipality of Baler, in the same province, with the seat of municipal government at the present municipality of Baler.

SEC. 2. The barrios of Cabulihan, San Roque, and Calantas, with the sitios of Anos and Tubas, now a part of the municipality of Gumaca, Province of Tayabas, are hereby annexed to and consolidated with the municipality of Pitogo, in the same province.

SEC. 3. The municipal elections in Baler shall be held in accordance with the rules contained in Act Numbered Seven hundred and thirty, as amended by Act Numbered Nine hundred and twentyeight. When the new municipal officials shall have been elected and shall have qualified, the present organization of each of the municipalities mentioned in section one of this Act shall be thereby abolished, and all offices held by virtue of their present organization shall be vacant and abolished, so that all the present municipal officials shall cease to hold office as soon as the new officials shall have taken the oath of office. Until the officials elected for the newly constituted municipality of Baler, as described in section one, shall have qualified, the present organization of the existing municipalities shall continue. SEC. 4. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. 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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, October 25, 1906.

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