Establishment of Government Rice Farm in Pampanga

Section 1 establishes a Government rice farm in the Province of Pampanga to demonstrate to the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands the practical advantages of modern methods of:
- cultivating rice,
- harvesting rice, and
- threshing rice.

Section 1 requires that the Government rice farm be established under the Bureau of Agriculture.
Section 1 fixes the farm’s purpose as a demonstration of modern rice cultivation and processing methods to local inhabitants.

Section 2 authorizes the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture to secure land by rental.
Section 2 limits the rented land to not exceeding two upon. thousand acres in extent in the Province of Pampanga.
Section 2 sets the rental basis as one-fourth of the unhulled rice produced on the rented land paid to the owner or owners of the land.

Section 3 authorizes the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture, with the approval of the Civil Governor, to sell rice.
Section 3 permits sale at such time as the Chief may deem desirable.
Section 3 requires that sale be at the current market price at the time of sale.
Section 3 limits what may be sold: any rice remaining after:
- payment of the annual rental, and
- the rice not required by the Insular Government.

Section 4 appropriates the following amounts in money of the United States from the Insular Treasury (out of money not otherwise appropriated) for expenditure by the Bureau of Agriculture for the Government rice farm:
- One hundred mules — $25,000.
- Agricultural machinery, implements, tools, wagons, harness, twine, and sacks — $9,218.
- Buildings — $5,000.
- Salaries and wages, including:
  - one superintendent at $1,800 per year,
  - one overseer at $1,000 per year,
  - one overseer at $900 per year,
  - five laborers at $60 per month each,
  - thirty laborers at $8 per month each,
  - seventy-five laborers for thirty days at thirty cents per day,
  - total salaries and wages item — $10,855.
- Oats, hay, and coal — $13,148.
Section 4 directs that these appropriations be expended “by the Bureau of Agriculture” for the purposes named.

Section 5 requires that appropriations be withdrawn from the Treasury in local currency at the ratio authorized at the time of withdrawal.
Section 5 provides that payments in local currency for obligations properly expressed in United States currency shall be at the ratio in force at the time of payment.
Section 5 requires that salaries be paid at the ratio existing on the next to the last day of the month for which they are paid.
Section 5 authorizes an adjustment: if a deficiency arises in an appropriation for salaries, further sums necessary to meet authorized salary payments are appropriated.

Section 6 declares that the public good requiring speedy enactment authorizes expedited passage 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.
Section 7 provides that Act No. 634 takes effect on its passage.
Section 7 fixes the effective date rule without a publication requirement.