Section 1
SECTION 1. The Provincial Board of the Province of Batanes may, with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, spend the amount of thirty-five thousand pesos, which was allotted to the Province of Batanes as an Insular aid for the relief of earthquake sufferers in said province, under the provisions of Act Numbered Two thousand eight hundred fifty-four, and which is now deposited in the Philippine National Bank to the official credit of the Provincial Secretary-Treasurer of Batanes, for the construction or repair of public school buildings in that province, or the Provincial Board may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, spend said amount in the construction or repair of other necessary permanent public improvements, the provisions of Act Numbered Two thousand eight hundred fifty-four to the contrary notwithstanding.