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

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following-named public works and permanent improvements, and for other purposes of the Insular Government: Provided, That no part of the appropriations herein made shall be available for use in any of the works herein authorized without prior authorization of the Governor-General.

BUREAU OF HEALTH.
For the continuance of the construction of hospital, bodegas, and additional houses to provide accommodations for lepers, fifty  thousand pesos: Provided, That the Bureau of Health is hereby authorized to continue construction work without the intervention of the Bureau of Public Works or the Consulting Architect, existing law to the contrary notwithstanding.

BUREAU OF SCIENCE.
For additional stacks and steel and glass gangway, staircase, and railing for the scientific library, to be transferred to the new wing of the Laboratory Building, seventeen thousand five hundred pesos.

For stables for animals used in investigation of contagious diseases, five thousand pesos.

BUREAU OF CONSTABULARY.
For permanent buildings and sites, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, fifty thousand pesos.

BUREAU OF PUBLIC WORKS.
For the construction, improvement, and, where necessary, maintenance of roads and bridges in those provinces which shall accept the provisions of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and fifty-two, and which shall by resolution of the provincial board guarantee, by continuing annual appropriations, the establishment of such conservation system as may be necessary in the judgment of the Director of Public Works on all first-class roads now or hereafter constructed and declared to be such by the Director of Public Works, including the construction, improvement, and maintenance of roads and bridges in the Provinces of Mindoro, Palawan, and Batanes, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, one million five hundred thousand pesos: Provided, That with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police first had, not exceeding one hundred thousand pesos of the aforesaid sum may be expended to aid provinces which have appropriated money from provincial funds to assist in the construction of important roads in their respective provinces: And provided further, That five hundred thousand pesos of the one and one-half million hereinbefore appropriated shall be considered as a continuing annual appropriation so long as the resolutions of all the provincial boards adopted under Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and fifty-two shall continue the tax authorized in the said Act in favor of and for the exclusive benefit of the provinces and municipalities.

For the construction of specific interprovincial roads, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, three hundred thousand pesos.

For the drilling of artesian wells and to obtain water by other means, including the cost of new equipment and pumping plants, when necessary, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, three hundred thousand pesos.

For the construction of new buildings and the purchase of equipment for the Philippine Normal School, two hundred thousand pesos.

For the improvement and preservation of the old Magallanes Monument on the Island of Mactan, municipality of Opon, and the wagon roads thereof, as well as the road leading to said monument, five thousand pesos.

For the construction of a contagious-disease ward at the San Lazaro Hospital in Manila, forty thousand pesos.

For the construction of an addition to the Ayuntamiento Building, twenty thousand six hundred and thirty pesos.

Total for the Bureau of Public Works, two million three hundred and sixty-five thousand six hundred and thirty pesos.

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.
For the improvement of ports, dredging of navigable river and canals, opening of new canals, construction of breakwaters, sea walls, dams and containing walls for the prevention of inundations, and the taking of soundings and preliminary surveys for such purposes, including the continuation of the construction of the sea wall in the port of Cebu, and the objects provided in Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-three, subject to the terms of the appropriation in Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and for the improvement of the port of Iloilo, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, seven hundred thousand pesos.

For the construction of lights, buoys, and beacons (including keepers' houses, and so forth, as approved by the  Light-house Board), forty thousand pesos.

BUREAU OF POSTS.
For the construction of new telegraph lines, the construction of wireless telegraph stations, and for the purchase of post-office boxes and cabinets, street letter boxes, telegraph instruments, and wireless telegraph instruments, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, fifty thousand pesos.

BUREAU OF EDUCATION.
To aid the municipal governments in the construction of central school buildings, to be allotted by the Secretary of Public Instruction, one hundred thousand pesos.

For the construction of new buildings for the College of Agriculture at Los Banos, ten thousand pesos.

For the purchase and installation of an electric light and power plant for the College of Agriculture, at Los Banos, twelve thousand pesos.

BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE.
For alterations  and improvements,  Iloilo Quarantine  Station, fifteen thousand five hundred pesos.

For the construction of a quarantine station at Cebu, purchase of land claims, and construction of a septic tank and windmill, sixteen thousand pesos.

At Alabang stock farm: For the construction of one isolation ward, one reinforced concrete reservoir, residence for employees of the serum laboratory, one barn, ten laborers' houses of light material, and fencing, sixteen thousand pesos.

BUREAU OF PRISONS.
For placing new reinforced concrete roofs on three cell houses, four thousand five hundred pesos.

For the completion of the installation of the sewer system, five thousand pesos.

Total appropriations for public works and permanent improvements, three million four hundred and fifty-seven thousand one hundred and thirty pesos.

SEC. 2. All balances remaining unexpended  when  any public works or permanent improvements appropriated for by this Act are completed shall be returned at once to the Insular Treasury and shall not be available for withdrawal or disbursement thereafter, but shall be carried to the general revenues of the Islands.

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the same shall take effect on its passage in accordance with section one of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and forty-five of the Philippine Legislature, but the appropriations herein  made shall not be available until July first, nineteen hundred and ten.

Enacted, April 19, 1910.