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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, for public works and permanent improvements in the Provinces of Agusan, Nueva Vizcaya, the Mountain Province and the Moro Province:

PROVINCE  OF  NUEVA  VIZCAYA.
For a road and bridge fund for the Province of Nueva Vizcaya, two thousand pesos; permanent equipment, three thousand pesos; construction and equipment of telephone lines, eight hundred pesos; in all, five thousand eight hundred pesos.

PROVINCE  OF  AGUSAN.
For the construction and equipment of a telephone line from the coast to Malay] ml ay in the Province of Agusan, two thousand six hundred pesos.

DEPARTMENT  OF  COMMERCE  AND  POLICE.
For the construction and improvement of roads and bridges, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, one hundred and fifty thousand pesos.

For the drilling of artesian wells and to obtain water by other means, including the cost of new equipment and pumping plants when necessary, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, ten thousand pesos.

For the construction of irrigation works, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, ten thousand pesos.

BUREAU  OF  PUBLIC  WORKS.
For the creation of a reimbursable fund for the equipment and maintenance of an automobile passenger and freight transportation service in the Mountain Province, one  hundred  thousand
pesos.

BUREAU  OF  CONSTABULARY.
For the construction of barracks and quarters for the Bureau of Constabulary, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, fifty thousand pesos.

BUREAU  OF  AGRICULTURE.
For the construction of a barn at the Trinidad Stock Farm; for fencing and other improvements at said stock farm and at the Trinidad Experiment Station; six thousand  pesos.

BUREAU  OF  EDUCATION.
For aid in the construction of school buildings in the Mountain Province and in the Provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Agusan, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Public Instruction, thirty thousand pesos: Provided, That the buildings constructed under this fund shall be erected upon lands owned by the municipal, township, provincial, or Insular government, or which are donated for school purposes, or upon public lands which have been reserved for such purposes in accordance with the provisions of the Public Land Act: Provided, however, That construction work upon all except public lands may be begun only after registration of the titles of school sites in the Court of Land Registration, or upon authorization of the Secretary of Public Instruction after filing of the application for registration in the said Court of Land Registration: And provided further, That the preparation of the plans and specifications and the execution of the work shall be carried out in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Public Instruction: And provided further, That no building erected wholly or in part from the funds appropriated for this purpose shall be sold, or used for other than school purposes, except with the approval of the Governor-General.

For the construction of buildings and other improvement of the Baguio Teachers Camp, to be allotted in. the discretion of the Secretary of Public Instruction, twenty-five thousand pesos.

Total for the Bureau of Education, fifty-five thousand pesos.

Total appropriations for all purposes, three hundred and eighty-nine thousand four hundred pesos.

SEC 2. The "road and bridge fund" available for expenditure by the provincial board of any province exclusively under the control of the Philippine Commission shall be expendable for the construction or maintenance of roads, trails, and bridges; but adequate provisions shall first be made for the maintenance of existing roads, trails, and bridges, and only the amount available after such maintenance has been provided for shall be expended for new construction.

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 twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

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

Enacted, June 9, 1910.