[ Act No. 3119, November 22, 1923 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED TWENTY THOUSAND PESOS FOR THE PURCHASE OF ANTHRAX SERUM AND VACCINE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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 any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise set aside,  the sum of one hundred  twenty thousand  pesos, for disbursement in the campaign of eradication of anthrax  at present decimating live stock in the  Islands.

SEC. 2. The sum above appropriated shall be disbursed by the Director of Agriculture, with the approval of  the Secretary  of  Agriculture  and Natural Resources, for  the purchase  or manufacture of anthrax  serum and vaccine, the purchase of necessary instrument and utensils, the payment of salaries and traveling expenses of the necessary additional personnel, and  the payment  of the necessary expenses of emergency guards for the  proper enforcement of such  quarantine  measures as may be  prescribed and adopted.

SEC. 3. The Director  of Agriculture  shall  be responsible for the application of the provisions of this Act, and with the approval of the Secretary  of  Agriculture  and Natural  Resources shall prescribe the  necessary measures for  this  purpose.   The  violation of any  of the  measures and provisions prescribed, as in this section provided, shall be punished  in accordance  with section twenty-seven hundred  and  forty-seven  of  Act  Numbered Twenty-seven hundred  and eleven,  commonly known  as  the  Revised Administrative  Code.

SEC. 4.  This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, November 22, 1923.