Section 1
SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one million pesos, which shall not be set up on he books of the Insular Auditor until released for expendure by the Governor-General, with the approval of the council of State, as aid to regularly organized provinces the construction, equipment, and maintenance of hospitals in said provinces: Provided, however, That in order to be entitled to the aid herein authorized, the province concerned shall contribute a sum of not less than one-half the sum which the Insular Government is ready to expend in said province, which money it shall either appropriate out of its own funds or raise by subscription on the part of the municipalities concerned or of private citizens, or in any other manner which shall not be a direct or indirect aid on the part of the Insular Government; and shall also bind itself to defray such portion of the cost of maintenance as the Insular Government may assign to it.