SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Three thousand one hundred and fourteen is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one million pesos, to be released by the Governor-General with the approval of the Council of State as aid to regularly organized provinces for the construction, equipment, operation, and maintenance of hospitals and other dependencies thereof, in said provinces: Provided, however, That in order to be entitled to the aid herein authorized, the province concerned shall contribute a sum not less than forty per cent of the total cost of construction, and equipment of the hospital, if a first-class province, not less than thirty-five per cent if a second-class province, and not less than thirty per cent in the case of other provinces, which money it may either appropriate out of its own funds or raise by subscription on the part of the municipalities concerned or of private citizens, or in any other manner which shall not be a direct or indirect aid on the part of the Insular Government: Provided, further, That the insular aid for the operation and maintenance herein authorized shall be fifty per cent of the total cost of such operation and maintenance for the first year, and shall be decreased by five per cent every year, so that said aid shall automatically be discontinued at the end of the tenth year in which the hospital is in operation. And provided, further, That any subprovince desiring to equip, operate, and maintain a hospital in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be considered a province for the purposes hereof."