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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 respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in part compensation for the service of the municipal government of the city of Manila for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth nineteen hundred and seven, and thereafter until expended, unless otherwise stated:

MUNICIPAL BOARD
Contingent expenses. Municipal Board: The unexpended balance of funds heretofore appropriated under this head is hereby made available for the payment of six hundred pesos as authorized by a resolution of the Commission dated March eleventh, nineteen hundred and seven.

LAW DEPARTMENT.
Salaries and wages, office of the prosecuting attorney: The resolution of the Commission dated May fourteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, transferring the sum of six hundred pesos to this head from that of "Salaries and wages, Municipal Board," is hereby confirmed.

Contingent expenses, office of the prosecuting attorney: The resolution of the Commission dated May fourteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, transferring the sum of one thousand three hundred pesos to this head from that of "Salaries and wages, Municipal Board.'' Im expenditure in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and forty-six, is hereby confirmed.

DEPARTMENT OF CITY SCHOOLS.
Contingent expenses, department of city schools: The unexpended balance of funds heretofore appropriated under this head is hereby made available for liberations and otherwise fitting up for school purposes the premises formerly occupied by the United States Army quartermaster shops, as authorized by a resolution of the Commission dated March twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC WORKS.
Salaries and, wages, department of engineering and public works: The unexpended balance of funds heretofore appropriated under this head is hereby made available for the employment in the division of "water supply and sewers" of one clerk, at five hundred and forty pesos per annum, in lieu of one clerk, Class J, and in the division of "city repair shops" two mechanics, at two thousand one hundred and sixty pesos per annum each, in lieu of two mechanics, class ten, from July first, nineteen hundred and six.

The resolution of the Commission dated December twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six. authorizing the continuance of the city  repair shops to April  first, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby confirmed

DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION AND TRANSPORTATION.
Salaries and wages, department of sanitation and transportation: The unexpended balance of funds heretofore appropriated under this head is hereby made available for the employment of one clerk, class eight, and one cleric. Class D, in lieu of one clerk, class nine, one superintendent of cemeteries, class nine, from February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven.

PUBLIC WORKS.
For straightening and widening of streets as may be necessary, two thousand two hundred and seventy-four pesos and ninety-six centavos.

For two-fifths of the expense of constructing a fireproof vault m the city hall for the Court of Land Registration, as contemplated by a resolution of the Commission dated February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand six hundred pesos

For final payment to H. D. Burnham and Pierce Anderson in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered  thirteen hundred and fifty-six, two thousand two hundred and fifty-five pesos and eighty centavos.

In all, for public works, six thousand one hundred and thirty pesos and seventy-six centavos.

Total of appropriations for all purposes, six thousand one hundred and thirty pesos and seventy-six centavos: Provided, That each chief of department shall certify to the Auditor the amount of his outstanding obligations on account; of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six and prior fiscal years, and the Auditor shall transfery from the appropriations standing on his books, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. to the funds in the Treasury available for appropriation, such amounts as may be in excess of those required to meet such outstanding obligations.

SEC. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, June 27, 1907.