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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 necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in part compensation for the service of the provincial governments of Agusan, Nueva Vizcaya, and the Mountain Province, for the period ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and thereafter until expended;

PROVINCE OF AGUSAN.
For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum: lieutenent-governor for the subprovince of Bukidnon, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; assitsnt to provincial governor

at Bumawan, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; assistant to provincial governor for western Bukidnon, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; assistant to provincial governor in the Umayam district, at two hundred and eighty pesos per annum, in addition to his salary as a Constabulary officer; for per diems of the third member of the provincial board; for two-eighths of the salary of the fiscal for the district of Agusan, Misamis, and Surigao, two-eighths of the salary of the clerk to said fiscal, two-eighths of the salary of the district health officer, and for a proportionate part of the salaries of clerks to the district auditor; and 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 the transportation of supplies; for the purchase of office furniture and supplies and permanent equipment; postage and telegrams: printing and binding: maintenance of official transportation; alteration, maintenance and repair of provincial buildings; rents; construction, maintenance and repair of bridges, roads, and trails, and removal of obstructions in rivers; equipment and maintenance of telephone lines: maintenance of public animals, including breeding animals loaned by the Bureau of Agriculture; court expenses; subsistence of prisoners; sanitary and burial fund for indigent persons; for the construction of a provincial government building, at a cost not to exceed twenty thousand pesos: Provided, however, That no part of this amount shall be expended on said building without the approval of the Governor-General first had: for a fund to lie 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 Lepanoo-Bontoc ;" and other incidental expenses; sixty thousand one hundred and seventy pesos: Provided, That the provision of sections two and three of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and forty-five are hereby extended to and made applicable to the third member of the provincial board of the Province of Agusan but all resolutions of the provincial board fixing the per diems to be paid such third member shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Inferior.

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF NUEVA VIZCAYA.
For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum : provincial secretary-treasurer, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; district health officer, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; 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 the transportation of supplies; for the purchase of office furniture and supplies and permanent equipment; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance of official transportation; alteration, maintenance and repair of provincial buildings; rents; for the maintenance of the Padre Juan Villaverde trail from' San Nicolas, Pangasinan. to Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, and for the construction, maintenance and repair of other roads, bridges and trails, and removal of obstructions in rivers; equipment  and maintenance of telephone lines: maintenance of public animals, including brooding animals loaned by the Bureau of Agriculture; court expenses; subsistence of prisoners; sanitary mid burial fund for indigent persons; 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; twenty-nine thousand five hundred and fourteen pesos.

PROVINCIAL  GOVERNMENT  OF  THE  MOUNTAIN  PROVINCE.
For salaries and wages, including salary of provincial governor, at six thousand pesos per annum; provincial secretary-treasurer, at five thousand pesos per annum; provincial supervisor, at four thousand peso per annum : lieutenant-governor of Benguet, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Amburayan. at two thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Lepanio, at three thousand pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Apayao, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum : lieutenant-governor of Bontoc, at three thousand two per annum : lieutenant-governor of Kalinga, at three hundred pesos per annum; lieutenant-governor of Ifugao, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; for a proportionate part of salaries of clerks to 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 trawling expenses and per diems of officers and employees, under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six: for the transportation of supplies; for the purchase of office supplies and permanent equipment; postage and telegram; printing and binding; maintenance of official transportation; alteration, maintenance and repair of provincial buildings; rents; maintenance and repair of bridges, roads, and trails, of obstructions in rivers; equipment and maintenance lines: maintenance of public animals, including breeding animals loaned by the Bureau of Agriculture; court expenses; of prisoners; sanitary and burial fund for indigent a fund to be expended by the provincial governor in 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; ninety-three thousand one hundred and sixty-pesos.

MISCELLANEOUS.
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 mid promoting friendly relations with non-Christian noes and suppressing head-hunting, six thousand pesos.

For the construction of school buildings and the establishment and maintenance of educational work, including subsistence and clothing of pupils in industrial schools, to be expended in the and in the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva e discretion of the Secretary of Public Instruction, seventy-five thousand peso.

Total of appropriations for all purposes : Two hundred and sixty-three thousand eight hundred and forty-four pesos.

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in 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, April 13, 1909.