[ 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

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

Approved, December 20, 1918.

Batas Pinas