[ Act No. 1486, May 11, 1906 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PESOS FROM THE FUNDS REALIZED FROM THE SALE OF BONDS AUTHORIZED BY ACT NUMBERED THIRTEEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTING SEWERS IN THE CITY OF MANILA AND TO FURNISH IT WITH AN ADEQUATE SEWER AND DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND SUPPLY OF WATER.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. The following sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of the funds realized from the sale of bonds authorized by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and twenty-three, for the construction of the proposed sewer and water-supply systems in the city of Manila:

DEPARTMENT OF SEWER AND WATERWORKS CONSTRUCTION.

For payments on duly authorized contracts, one hundred thousand pesos: Provided, That the action of the Commission in a resolution dated January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and six. authorizing the Municipal Board, city of Manila, to contract, without advertising, for the construction of a sewer through the new Luneta Extension is hereby confirmed, the provisions of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 2. The funds appropriated by this Act shall be expended in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and twenty-three.

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, May 11, 1906.