SECTION 1. The following sums, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of continuing the construction of the Benguet road.
For salaries and wages, including the unpaid portion of the salary of N. M. Holmes, chief engineer, from August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, to July first, nineteen hundred and three, at the rate of throe thousand dollars per annum; and compensation for services rendered in securing laborers; one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For subsistence of employees, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purchase of materials and supplies, including medicines, medical supplies, and surgical instruments, twenty thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For transportation of officials, employees, and supplies, including Transportation. the purchase of means of transportation and its maintenance, and the sum of two hundred and seventy-five dollars to reimburse Major L. W. V. Kennon, United States Army, engineer in charge, for traveling expenses and subsistence when absent from his station on official business, forty thousand three hundred dollars.
In all, for the purposes of this Act, two hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars, in currency of the United States.