Section 1
SECTION 1. The road and bridge funds of the provinces .water organized under Act Numbered Eighty-three, known as the Provincial Government Act, are hereby authorized to be used upon appropriation of their respective provincial boards, approved by the Governor-General, for the purpose of subsidizing, or for acquiring, operating, and maintaining, means of water transportation within such provinces and between them and adjacent islands, or to dredge rivers and provide facilities of communication and transportation by river.