Act No. 2783, December 21, 1918

[ Act No. 2783, December 21, 1918 ]

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE DISBURSEMENT OF THE SURPLUS FROM THE FUNDS APPROPRIATED BY THE APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN, FOR CERTAIN NECESSARY EXPENDITURES OF THE GOVERNMENT DURING- SAID YEAR.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of the surplus funds remaining from the appropriations made by Act Numbered Two thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven for the general expenses of the Insular Government during the fiscal year ending December thirty-first, nineteen. hundred and eighteen, the following sums to cover the deficits in the apropriations pertaining to said year made for certain Bureaus of the Insular Government:

EXECUTIVE.

Expenses of the Council of State

P5,000.00

Expenses of the Council of National Defense..

40,000.00

Consumption of supplies and materials.

1,500.00

Purchase of furniture and equipment.....

7,700.00

_________

Total

54,200.00

SUPREME COURT.

Postage and telegraph service

250.00

Illumination and power service

250.00

Consumption of supplies and materials

400.00

Plant and equipment repair service

100.00

Purchase of furniture and equipment

600.00

_________

Total

1,600.00

CIVIL SERVICE BUREAU.

Consumption of supplies and materials

1,600.00

_________

Total

1,600.00

BUREAU OF NON-CHRISTIAN TRIBES.

Aid to the Mountain Province

P27,870.00

_________

Total

27,870.00

PHILIPPINE HEALTH SERVICE.

Temporary and emergency employees

22,000.00

Traveling expenses of personnel

12,500.00

Freight, express, and delivery service

8,600.00

Postal, telegraph, telephone, and cable service

1,700.00

Printing and binding

3,400.00

Consumption of supplies and materials

162,000.00

Other services

4,100.00

_________

Total

209,300.00

BUREAU OF QUARANTINE SERVICE.

Subsistence of employees

900.00

Consumption of supplies and materials

6,000.00

_________

Total .

6,900.00

BUREAU OF CUSTOMS.

Illumination and power service..

3,500.00

Plant and equipment repair service

70,000.00

Other services

7,000.00

Purchase of furniture and equipment .........

5,500.00

_________

Total

86,000.00

BUREAU OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Traveling expenses of personnel

3,000.00

Postal, telegraph, telephone, and cable service

3,500.00

Consumption of supplies and materials

48,000.00

Other services

7,200.00

_________

Total

61,700.00

BUREAU OF PRINTING.

Consumption of supplies and materials

110,000.00

_________

Total

110,000.00

BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE.

Traveling expenses of personnel

14,248.00

Postal, telegraph, telephone, and cable service

523.00

Contributions and gratuities

16,880.00

_________

Total

81,651.00

BUREAU OF FORESTRY.

Traveling expenses of personnel...............

P3,000.00

Plant and equipment repair service

300.00

Consumption of supplies and materials

7,000.00

Printing and binding

2,000.00

_________

Total

12,300.00

BUREAU OF LANDS.

Illumination and power service

500.00

Consumption of supplies and materials

37,000.00

Plant and equipment repair service

1,000.00

Purchase of furniture and equipment

1,500.00

_________

Total

40,000.00

BUREAU OF SCIENCE.

Printing and binding

14,725.00

Other services

2,000.00

Purchase of furniture and equipment

4,000.00

_________

Total

20,725.00

BUREAU OF POSTS.

Illumination and power service

7,500.00

Consumption of supplies and materials

45,000.00

Printing and binding

9,000.00

_________

Total

61,500.00

BUREAU OF SUPPLY.

Consumption of supplies and materials

35,312.00

Total

_________ 35,312.00

BUREAU OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

Consumption of supplies and materials

85,000.00

Plant and equipment repair service..

220.000.00

Other services ;

15,000.00

_________

Total :....

320,000.00

BUREAU OF LABOR.

Interisland migration..

60,000.00

Total

_________ 60,000.00

_________

Total of the appropriations made by this Act

1,140,658.00

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, December 20, 1918.