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[ Act No. 578, January 03, 1903 ]
AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-TWO AND ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND ONE, PROVIDING FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PORT OF MANILA.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. Act Numbered Twenty-two, providing for the improvement of the port of Manila, and Act Numbered One hundred and one amendatory thereof, are hereby amended so as to authorize and empower the engineer in charge of the improvement of the port of Manila to construct an additional breakwater three thousand feet long to the south of the outer end of the present west breakwater, as projected, and separated therefrom by a suitable interval for the safe entry of vessels, said additional breakwater to be in a general northwest to southeast direction, and in thirty feet depth of water at mean low water, and to be constructed of riprap stone, of the general height and cross section shown by map on file in the office of the engineer in charge of the improvement of the port of Manila, dated October eighteenth, nineteen hundred and two.
SEC. 2. The engineer in charge of the improvement of the port of Manila is hereby authorized and empowered to make a contract for the construction of the aforesaid additional breakwater to an amount not exceeding one million and twenty-nine thousand dollars, money of the United States, in addition to the two million dollars for the contracts provided for in section three of Act Numbered One hundred and one, appropriations for meeting the new contract to be made from time to time to meet obligations incurred under said contract on or before the exhaustion of funds already appropriated by Acts Numbered Twenty-two and One hundred and one: Provided, That the incidental expenses for surveys, advertisements, administration, superintendence, and inspection for the said additional breakwater may he paid directly from funds now available or in be hereafter appropriated.
SEC. 3. The contract provided for in the preceding section shall be made by the engineer in charge of the improvement of the port of Manila, in form and manner as set forth in section five of Act Numbered Twenty-two.
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 twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, January 3, 1903.
SECTION 1. Act Numbered Twenty-two, providing for the improvement of the port of Manila, and Act Numbered One hundred and one amendatory thereof, are hereby amended so as to authorize and empower the engineer in charge of the improvement of the port of Manila to construct an additional breakwater three thousand feet long to the south of the outer end of the present west breakwater, as projected, and separated therefrom by a suitable interval for the safe entry of vessels, said additional breakwater to be in a general northwest to southeast direction, and in thirty feet depth of water at mean low water, and to be constructed of riprap stone, of the general height and cross section shown by map on file in the office of the engineer in charge of the improvement of the port of Manila, dated October eighteenth, nineteen hundred and two.
SEC. 2. The engineer in charge of the improvement of the port of Manila is hereby authorized and empowered to make a contract for the construction of the aforesaid additional breakwater to an amount not exceeding one million and twenty-nine thousand dollars, money of the United States, in addition to the two million dollars for the contracts provided for in section three of Act Numbered One hundred and one, appropriations for meeting the new contract to be made from time to time to meet obligations incurred under said contract on or before the exhaustion of funds already appropriated by Acts Numbered Twenty-two and One hundred and one: Provided, That the incidental expenses for surveys, advertisements, administration, superintendence, and inspection for the said additional breakwater may he paid directly from funds now available or in be hereafter appropriated.
SEC. 3. The contract provided for in the preceding section shall be made by the engineer in charge of the improvement of the port of Manila, in form and manner as set forth in section five of Act Numbered Twenty-two.
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 twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, January 3, 1903.