[ Act No. 2859, March 12, 1919 ]

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE THE SUM OF FIFTEEN THOUSAND PESOS FOR FOREST RECONNAISSANCES IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

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 appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources in forest reconnaissances in such regions as the Director of the Bureau of Forestry may recommend, and in the publication of the result of such reconnaissances.

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

Approved, March 12, 1919.