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REPUBLIC ACT NO. 260
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 260  - AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF FIFTY-SIX MILLION TWENTY THOUSAND PESOS FOR PUBLIC WORKS




Section 1.    The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are appropriated out of the General Funds, in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be released by the President of the Philippines and subject to the provisions hereinafter set forth, for the purposes mentioned hereunder:

A.  MISCELLANEOUS

 (a)    For the investigation, survey, construction,
     reconstruction, repair, improvement,
    extension, and completion of public works projects,
    including the purchase of school, hospital and
    markets sites in provinces, chartered cities, and
    municipalities, upon the recommendation of the
    President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
    House of Representatives      P26,000,000.00

(b)    For the operation of a revolving
    fund in connection with the installation of rock
    quarry or quarries, including the rehabilitation of
    the Los Baños Quarry and Romblon Marble
    Quarry    1,000,000.00

(c)    For the operation of a revolving
    fund in connection with the operation and
    maintenance of the Materials Testing Laboratory
    which was turned over to the Bureau of Public
    Works by the U.S. Public Roads Administration
    in the Philippines    50,000.00

(d)    For the installation of Photolithographic
    Map Reproduction Plant, Bureau
    of Coast and Geodetic Survey    70,000.00

B.  PUBLIC BUILDINGS

(e)    For the maintenance, alteration,
    reconstruction, repair and construction of
    national public buildings and monuments,
    including necessary repairs and alterations of
    private buildings and lots rented by the National
    Government, and upkeep of adjacent grounds,
    and of the mausoleum of Filipino heroes and
    martyrs at the "Cementerio del Norte" of the
    City of Manila, in an amount not to exceed
    P200, including the purchase of necessary
    supplies, materials and equipment    4,500,000.00

(f)    For the construction, reconstruction, repair
    and improvement of buildings and other
    facilities for the Armed Forces of the
    Philippines, including the acquisition of
    sites for military areas and the purchase of
    necessary supplies, materials and
    equipment    2,500,000.00

(g)    For the maintenance, repair, improvement,
    construction and reconstruction of
    barracks, schools, dispensaries, hospitals,
    officers' quarters, warehouses, and other
    facilities for the Philippine Constabulary,
    including the purchase of necessary supplies,
    materials and equipment    2,000,000.00

C.  HIGHWAYS

(h)    For the survey and construction of national
    roads, including the purchase of necessary
    supplies, materials and equipment    2,000,000.00

(i)    Ford for the construction, repair, reconstruction,
    and improvement of provincial roads and
    bridges, including the purchase of necessary
    supplied, materials and equipment    2,000,000.00

D.  SANITATION

(j)    For the construction, repair or reconstruction
    of national, provincial, city and municipal
    hospitals, dispensaries and maternities, including
    the purchase of hospital equipment    800,000.00

(k)    For the drilling of artesian and draftpump wells,
     reconditioning and/or repair of drilling machines,
    maintenance of well drilling tools and equipment,
    including the purchase of necessary supplies,
    materials and equipment    1,000,000.00

(l)    Ford in the investigation, survey,
    construction, repair, reconstruction, extension
    and improvement of water supply systems,
    including the purchase of necessary supplies,
    materials and equipment      1,000,000.00

E.  FLOOD CONTROL AND DRAINAGE

(m)    For the investigation, survey,
    construction, reconstruction, repair and
    improvement of river control and drainage
    works, including the purchase of necessary
    supplies, materials and equipment    4,000,000.00

(n)    For the improvement of drainage
    and sanitary conditions in the North
     Harbor, Manila    420,000.00

F.  IRRIGATION

(o)    For the investigation, survey, construction,
    reconstruction, repair and improvement of
    irrigation systems, including the purchase
    of necessary supplies, materials and
    equipment    4,360,000.00

G.  INVESTIGATION AND SURVEYS

(p)    For the investigation, survey, construction,
    repair and completion of sea protection
    works, including the purchase of necessary
    supplies, materials and equipment    1,000,000.00

(q)    For the investigation, survey and adjudication
    of water rights, including the purchase of
    necessary supplies, materials and equipment    25,000.00

(r)    For making hydrographic investigation in
    connection with the study of water supply, irrigation,
    water power and river control projects, including
    the purchase of necessary supplies, materials
    and equipment    45,000.00

H. RFIELDS

(s)    For the acquisition, construction, improvement,
    maintenance and operation ofrfields for
    commercial aviation    2,000,000.00

    Total appropriated from
    General Funds    P54,770,000.00
        ============

Sec. 2.    The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated out of the "Port Works Fund" under Act Numbered Three thousand five hundred and ninety-two, as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and thirty, not otherwise appropriated, to be at the disposal of the Secretary of Public Works and Communications, are subject to the provisions hereinafter set forth, for the purposes mentioned hereunder: 

(a)    For the reconstruction and improvement
    of national ports and the purchase of necessary
    supplies, materials and equipment    P700,000.00

(b)    For the reconstruction and improvement
    of lighthouses and otherds to navigation,
    including the purchase of necessary supplies,
    materials and equipment    300,000.00

(c)    Ford in the reconstruction and improvement
    of municipal ports, including the purchase
    of necessary supplies, materials and
    equipment    225,000.00

(d)    For the investigation and survey of
    ports and port sites, including the purchase of
    supplies, materials and equipment    25,000.00

    Total appropriated from Port
    Works Fund    P1,250,000.00
            ===========
    Grand total appropriated in this
    Act, Fifty-six Million Twenty
    Thousand Pesos    P56,020,000.00
            ============

Sec. 3.    All sums appropriated under section one of this Act shall be released only after certification by the Secretary of Finance and the Auditor General to the President of the Philippines that there are sufficient funds derived from current revenues in excess of authorized appropriations for the ordinary operating expenses of the National Government in the Philippine Treasury to warrant such release and that no amount appropriated in this Act shall be set up in the books of the General Auditing Office or otherwise made available for expenditure unless previously authorized by the President of the Philippines.

Sec. 4.    The President of the Philippines is authorized to suspend or otherwise stop the expenditures of any amount herein appropriated for any purpose, or any portion thereof, whenever in his opinion the public interest so requires, or when funds shall not be available for the purpose, and thereupon the funds affected by such action shall become available for any other public works expenditure authorized herein as the President may determine.

Sec. 5.    This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 14, 1948

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