Section 8
SEC. 8. The following sums or the part thereof which may be Appropriation. 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: Provided, That no expenditure shall be made or obligation incurred under this section without the prior approval of the Governor-General. BUREAU OF PUBLIC WORKS. For drilling of artesian wells, including the cost of new equipment and pumping plants whore necessary, to be allotted by the Secretary of Commerce and Police, one hundred and five thousand pesos. For the. improvement of Baguio town site and the construction streets and buildings, twenty-six thousand seven hundred pesos. For the continuation of public improvements at Sibul Springs, twenty-six thousand seven hundred pesos. For the construction and equipment of an addition to the Government laboratory eminent laboratory of the Bureau of Science, one hundred and five thousand pesos. For the construction of a building for a Philippine Normal School in the city of Manila: Provided, That the funds appropriated under Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and' forty-two for the construction of a domestic science building for the Normal School at Manila, twenty-eight thousand pesos; for a model school for the Normal School in Manila, twelve thousand pesos: and for the construction and equipment of a cosmopolitan school building at Manila, twenty thousand pesos; total sixty thousand pesos; be and the same are hereby also made available for this project in lieu of the purposes for which appropriated, one hundred and eighty-nine thousand pesos. For the construction and surfacing of roads and the construction and repair of culverts and buildings at Alabang, six thousand pesos. For improvements at the Manila cattle quarantine station, including the construction of necessary offices and storerooms, additional cattle sheds, employees quarters, ferry connecting Uli-Uli with station, maladero, fences, improving old residence, and so forth, one hundred and fifty-two thousand two hundred pesos. For the addition of one unit to the power plant of the Bureau of Science in order to supply light and power for the General Hospital and Medical College buildings, thirty-five thousand pesos. For construction of a new laundry at the San Lazaro Hospital, thirty-two thousand pesos. For construction of gas plant at the General Hospital, eighteen thousand pesos. Total for Bureau of Public Works, six hundred and ninety-five thousand six hundred pesos. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. To improve ports, dredge navigable rivers and canals, construction of embankments, dikes, and retaining walls to prevent inundations including the continuation of the work on the wharf of the Port of Iloilo. Port of Cebu up to the northern section of the city, the improvement of the port of lloilo. the improvement and maintenance of navigation in the Cagavan river, the dredging of the Loay and other rivers, six hundred thousand pesos, which shall be distributed in the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce and Police. BUREAU OF CUSTOMS. For the purchase or construction of two fast gasoline launches, forty thousand pesos. For the purchase or construction of one harbor launch for use by the Bureau of Customs at Manila, twenty thousand pesos. Total for Bureau of Customs, sixty thousand pesos. BUREAU OF PRISONS. For four isolation cells, three thousand pesos. BUREAU OF EDUCATION. For the assistance of municipal governments in the construction of buildings for central schools, subject to allotment by the Secretary of Public Instruction, one hundred thousand pesos. Total appropriation for public works and permanent improvements under sections seven and eight of this Act, three million three hundred and ninety-nine thousand three hundred and sixty pesos. Whenever, in the judgment of the Governor-General, the public interest so requires, he may by order direct that any unexpended balance from the moneys received from the sale of public improvement bonds be used to pay for any part of the public works or permanent improvements mentioned in this Act.