Question & AnswerQ&A (Republic Act No. 9121)
The primary purpose of Act No. 1960 is to appropriate funds for sundry expenses of various bureaus such as the Bureau of Constabulary, Bureau of Health, Bureau of Agriculture, Bureau of Forestry, and Bureau of Education in the Moro Province, Mountain Province, and the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910.
The bureaus allocated funds under this act are the Bureau of Constabulary, Bureau of Health, Bureau of Agriculture, Bureau of Forestry, and Bureau of Education.
Seven hundred thousand pesos was appropriated for the salaries, wages, and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Constabulary for use in the specified provinces.
The district health officer in Mountain Province is to receive four thousand pesos per annum, and the district health officer in Nueva Vizcaya is to receive three thousand six hundred pesos per annum.
Yes, sanitary inspectors in various provinces and subprovinces receive specific annual salaries ranging from four hundred eighty pesos to one thousand eight hundred pesos, depending on location.
The act appropriates salaries for two veterinarians in Mountain Province at three thousand six hundred pesos each per annum, and two veterinarians in the Provinces of Agusan and Nueva Vizcaya at three thousand two hundred pesos each per annum.
No. Section 2 of the act explicitly states that nothing in the act shall be construed as removing the administrative jurisdiction of the Directors of Constabulary, Health, Agriculture, Forestry, or Education over their respective bureaus in the mentioned provinces.
The total appropriations for all purposes under this Act amount to eight hundred seventy-five thousand pesos.
The act is retroactive and takes effect as of July first, nineteen hundred and nine.
Section 3 provides that the Act's enactment is expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September 26, 1900, due to the public good requiring speedy enactment.