[ Act No. 3163, March 08, 1924 ]

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF SCOUTING PARTIES TO LOCATE AND FIGHT LOCUSTS IN ISOLATED AND REMOTE PLACES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated annually out" of any funds in the Insular  Treasury not otherwise appropriated,  the  sum of one hundred thousand pesos to be disbursed by the Director of Agriculture with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources for the following purposes:

(a)  For salaries, wages, and traveling expenses, including subsistence, of scouting forces to be organized for the purpose of locating  and destroying locusts  or their eggs  at their  breeding grounds in the unpopulated regions  of the Philippine Islands;

(b)  For the purchase of the necessary chemicals, apparatuses, and other technical  supplies,  material and equipments;  the purchase of field  equipment for the men, such as tents, cooking  utensils, etc.; and

(c)  For  financing research studies for the purpose  of discovering the most efficacious and  economical means  of controlling the locusts: Provided, That any unused portion of this fund  shall revert  to  the Insular  Treasury  at the end of each fiscal year.

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

Approved,  March 8,  1924, for the fiscal year  ending December 31, 1924, only.