Section 7
SEC. 7. The following sums, or the part thereof which may be necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any of the general funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for certain public works and permanent improvements, and for other purposes of the Insular Government: BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE. There is hereby created a permanent reimbursable appropriation which shall be designated "Forage supply fund." There shall be payable from this-appropriation all expenses incident to the maintenance, operation, and improvement of the forage manufacturing plant, the purchase and installation of which was authorized and provided for by Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and seventy-three; and there shall be deposited to the credit of this appropriation all moneys received on account of forage sold and for other services and supplies incidental to the purposes of the undertaking. The operation of the forage plant, together with the receipt and disbursement of funds pertaining to this appropriation, shall pertain to the Bureau of Agriculture. The employment of services, the purchase of supplies, and such other questions as may arise in connection with the administration of this undertaking which are not otherwise provided for by law shall be determined by the Director of Agriculture under the direction, of the Secretary of the Interior. To furnish the necessary funds for the prompt settlement of obligations notwithstanding delays necessarily incident to collection of funds which will accrue to this appropriation, there is hereby appropriated the sum of fifty thousand pesos. There is hereby created a permanent reimbursable appropriation " which shall he designated "Cattle quarantine stations fund." There shall be payable from this appropriation all expenses incident to the care and maintenance of cattle held at cattle quarantine stations under the control of the "Bureau of Agriculture; and there shall be in the credit of this appropriation all moneys received of the care and maintenance of cattle so held at such station. To furnish the necessary funds for the prompt settlement of obligations notwithstanding delays necessarily incident to collection of funds which will accrue to this appropriation, there is hereby appropriated the sum of twenty thousand pesos. There is hereby created a permanent reimbursable appropriation which shall be designated "The plow fund," the purpose of which shall be to enable the Bureau of Agriculture to plow and harrow lands for persons desiring such service, and by a practical demonstration to familiarize agriculturists with the advantages accruing from the substitution of motor for animal power in field work. There shall be payable from this appropriation all expenses incident to the purchase, maintenance, and operation of steam, petroleum, or other motor plows and harrows as contemplated for the purposes aforementioned : and there shall be deposited to the credit of this appropriation all funds received on account of services rendered. To furnish the necessary funds for the prompt settlement of obligations notwithstanding delays necessarily incident to collection of funds which will accrue to this appropriation, there is hereby appropriated the sum of thirty thousand pesos. Total tor the Bureau of Agriculture, one hundred thousand pesos. BUREAU OF LANDS. For the purchase of a tract of laud, said to contain a superficial area of two thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight and ninety-six hundredths square meters, lying south of the projected Calle Ayala and west of Calle Carlos IV, near the present City Hall of Manila, and included in the section reserved under the Burnham Plan for public buildings and parks and forming part of the present layout of the proposed educational center, eight thousand one hundred and sixty 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, or which shall be subject to the annual road and public works tax imposed by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six, and which shall by resolution of the provincial board guarantee by continuing animal 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, to be allotted in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, one million two hundred thousand pesos: Provided, That with the prior approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police not more than one hundred thousand pesos of the above sum may be used to assist provinces which have appropriated money from provincial funds to help in the construction of important roads in their respective provinces. On recommendation of the Secretary of Commerce and Police and the Director of Public Works, the Governor-General may direct that not more than fifty per centum of the road and bridge fund of any province shall be used in the improvement of waterways and the construction of wharves. For construction and repair of interior roads on friar lands estates, twenty thousand pesos. For drilling of artesian wells in the provinces, including cost of new equipment and pumping plants where necessary, to be allotted by the Secretary of Commerce and Police, fifty-two thousand five hundred pesos. For construction of a building for silk culture. Bureau of Science, two thousand nine hundred pesos. For the construction of buildings at, the Alabang station of the Bureau of Agriculture, as follows: One reenforced concrete warehouse to receive freight, and so forth; Twenty light material houses for laborers; One hog shed; One combined pump house, feed mill, and storeroom; One machinery shed for steam plows and other heavy farm machinery; Eighteen thousand pesos. For construction of buildings, fences, and so forth, at the tobacco experimental station at Ilagan, Isabela, six thousand pesos. For improvements and additions to the San Lazaro inoculating station, ten thousand seven hundred pesos. For steam and hot-water piping for the Medical College buildings and the General Hospital, thirty thousand five hundred pesos. Total for Bureau of Public Works, one million three hundred and forty thousand six hundred pesos. BUREAU OF HEALTH. For equipment for General Hospital, one hundred thousand pesos. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. For the purchase and equipment of a cableship, for service in connection with the up-keep of cables of the Bureau of Posts and for other work, two hundred thousand pesos. For the improvement of existing lights; for the substitution of iron and concrete towers for the present wooden ones, and of permanent concrete houses for nipa ones: for the conversion of hexagonal and octagonal lanterns into cylindrical ones by the substitution of curved panes; for the purchase and establishment of buoys and appurtenances, and for the purchase of materials for and the construction of beacons; and for the purchase and installation of minor lights, forty thousand pesos. For the construction of a small wharf and storage sheds at Balabac and for restoring the custom-house building at that point, four thousand six hundred pesos. For a boat for the Province of Batanes, ten thousand pesos. Total for the Bureau of Navigation, two hundred and fifty-four thousand six hundred pesos. BUREAU OF POSTS. For the construction of new telegraph lines and for the purchase of post-office boxes and cabinets, additional street letter boxes, telegraph instruments, typewriters, office furniture, safes, and other fixtures, fifty thousand pesos. BUREAU OF PRISONS. For the construction of two new reenforced concrete buildings at Bilibid Prison to replace two old unserviceable pavilions, twenty thousand live hundred pesos. For reconstruction of pavilion number nine at Bilibid Prison, six thousand four hundred pesos. For gravel top dressing for prison grounds, six thousand pesos. IWAHIG PENAL COLONY. For power plant, agricultural machinery, and sawmill, fifteen thousand one hundred pesos. For permanent quarters and warehouses, twenty-four thousand pesos. For the purchase of new water transportation and replacing water transportation destroyed by floods, six thousand nine hundred pesos. For the purchase of work cattle for the Iwahig penal colony, four thousand five hundred pesos. Total for the Bureau of Prisons, eighty-three thousand four hundred pesos. PROVINCE OF PALAWAN. For the purchase and installation of a forty-five horse-power motor in the boat belonging to the provincial government of Palawan: Provided, That "the proceeds of the sale of the twenty-two horse-power motor now in use shall be available on this account, foui1 thousand pesos.