Section 1
SECTION 1. The preliminary steps taken with a view to erecting a monument to the memory of Andres Bonifacio and the idea of erecting, maintaining, and improving national monuments of this character, as expressed in Act Numbered Twenty-four hundred and ninety-four, are hereby confirmed and ratified. For this purpose and in order to expedite as much as possible the realization of the plan s to erect a monument to the memory of Andres Bonifacio, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to appoint a committee or committees for the purpose of taking up popular subscriptions in such manner and subject to such conditions as said Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. The members of these committees shall serve without compensation. The funds so collected shall be expended by the Secretary of the Interior in any manner conducive to the purpose of the subscription, that is, the erection of the monument, which may include the ordinary payment of agents for the collection on a percentage or per diem basis, in the discretion of said Secretary of the Interior.