[ Act No. 368, March 04, 1902 ]

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE FURNISHING OF ROOMS FOR THE INSTALLATION OF FIRST AND SECOND CLASS STATIONS OF THE PHILIPPINE WEATHER BUREAU BY PROVINCIAL AND MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS.

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

SECTION 1. In each province where a first or second class station of the Philippine Weather Bureau is provided for by law at the provincial capital, the provincial board shall assign a room, or rooms, adequate for he installation of the meteorological instruments and office equipment of the station, and to afford sleeping accommodation for the observers. The room, or rooms, shall be in the provincial building, if practicable, but if there is no suitable room available in the provincial building, then the board shall provide such a room, or rooms, by rental or by construction, and the expense incurred by reason of such rental or construction shall be a charge upon the funds of the province.

SEC. 2. In each municipality, not a provincial capital, where a first or second class station of the Philippine Weather Bureau is provided for by law, the municipal council shall provide a room, or rooms, adequate for the installation of the meteorological instruments and office equipment of the station, and to afford sleeping accommodations for the observers. The room, or rooms, shall be in the municipal building, if practicable, and if there is no suitable room available in the municipal building, then the council shall provide such a room, or rooms, by rental or by construction, and the expense incurred by reason of such rental or by construction shall be a charge upon the funds of the municipality.

SEC. 3. The question of the adequacy of rooms furnished by provincial or municipal governments under the provisions of sections one and two of this Act shall be determined, in each instance, by the Director of the Philippine Weather Bureau, subject to an appeal to the Civil Governor, whose decision shall be final.

SEC. 4. 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, March 4, 1902.