Section 1
SECTION 1. Pending the final approval of the appropriations for public works recommended by the President of the Philippines in his message to the National Assembly dated February first, nineteen hundred and thirty-eight, the President is authorized to release and order the expenditure of a sum, not exceeding forty per centum of the sum of ninety-two millions two hundred seventy-one thousand and eight hundred pesos, which is the total amount stated in the bill attached to the aforementioned message and made a part thereof, for the purpose of enabling the Government to commence at once the execution of the projects, whether national or local, listed in said bill.