Title
Appropriations for Insular Government FY 1906
Law
Act No. 1416
Decision Date
Dec 1, 1905
Act No. 1416 appropriates funds for the salaries and operational expenses of the Insular Government, including key positions such as the Governor-General and various department heads, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906.
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Executive Bureau Salaries and Contingent Expenses

  • Allocates funds for salaries of various executive bureau officials and clerks.
  • Provides for contingent expenses such as office furniture, supplies, printing, per diems, electric current, and maintenance of official buildings.
  • Authorizes commutation of accrued leave of employees who die or resign.

Bureau of Civil Service

  • Salaries and wages for Directors, Assistant Directors, examiners, clerks, and messengers.
  • Contingent expenses include purchase of office supplies, postage, printing, travel per diems, with cablegram costs to be borne by requesting bureaus.

Bureau of Health

  • Comprehensive appropriations for salaries and wages of medical staff, inspectors, nurses, and employees across various health divisions and hospitals.
  • Contingent expenses cover maintenance and operation of hospitals, suppression of diseases, subsidies for indigent care, medical supplies, and general hospital-related expenses.
  • Special provisions for interne appointments and subsistence allowances.

Bureau of Lands

  • Salaries for Director, Assistant Director, surveyors, clerks, and laborers.
  • Contingent expenses for court fees, drafting supplies, transportation, repair of irrigation dams, and upkeep of "friar lands" estates.
  • Requires separate accounting for expenditures related to specific estates.

Bureau of Science

  • Salaries for Director, laboratory chiefs, employees, including mining division staff.
  • Contingent expenses for scientific instruments, publications, equipment, field expenses, and library purchases.
  • Authorizes contract for additional books.

Bureau of Agriculture

  • Salaries for Directors, veterinarians, clerks, and farm supervisors.
  • Contingent expenses for purchase of plants, animals, agricultural tools, medicines, transportation, and official trips.
  • Provides for expenditure of funds from Congressional relief for combating livestock diseases.

Bureau of Forestry

  • Salaries for foresters, clerks, assistant engineers, rangers, and messengers.
  • Contingent expenses include purchase of specimens, office and field supplies, transportation, printing, and rentals.

Bureau of Quarantine Service

  • Salaries for quarantine officers, engineers, clerks, disinfectors, launch crews, and attendants.
  • Contingent expenses include maintenance of quarantine stations, transportation, communications, uniforms, and incidental costs.

Weather Bureau

  • Salaries for Directors, assistants, observers, clerks, and messengers.
  • Contingent expenses for instrument installation, repairs, transportation, office supplies, and other related costs.
  • Allows for reduction or transfer of stations.

Mining Bureau and Ethnological Survey

  • Salaries and contingent expenses appropriated for mining operations and ethnological research for specific periods.

Philippine Civil Hospital and Civil Sanitarium, Benguet

  • Salaries and contingent expenses for hospital staff, supplies, and maintenance.
  • Special appropriations for contract surgeons and forwarding agents.

Department of Commerce and Police - Bureau of Constabulary

  • Detailed salary appropriations for officers, enlisted men, band personnel, clerks, and secret service.
  • Provides funding for clothing, barracks, quarters, transportation, secret-service fund, telegraph and telephone services, subsistence, and contingent expenses.
  • Authorizes tariffs for stage line transportation and governs forage allowances.

Bureau of Public Works

  • Salaries for engineers, clerks, draftsmen, laborers, and support personnel.
  • Funds for contingent expenses including supplies, rentals, transportation, office expenses, and medical attendance for field employees.
  • Appropriations for public works projects, building maintenance, alterations, and repairs with specific allocations for several key buildings and agencies.

Bureau of Navigation

  • Salaries for directors, clerks, superintendents, engineers, light-house personnel, and other staff.
  • Appropriations for lighthouse service crew and maintenance.

Bureau of Posts

  • Appropriates salaries for Director, Assistant Directors, superintendents, clerks, messengers, mechanics, inspectors, postmasters, and operators.
  • Funding for mail transportation, construction, maintenance, and repair of telegraph and telephone lines.
  • Contingent expenses for office supplies, equipment purchase, per diems, transportation, and printing.

Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey

  • Salaries for clerks, draftsmen, messengers, petty officers, and field laborers.
  • Contingent expenses for maintenance and operation of steamers, medical treatment, supplies, printing, transportation, and fieldwork.

Signal Service

  • Salaries for necessary clerks, mechanics, and other employees.
  • Contingent expenses for construction, maintenance, supplies, printing, and incidentals.

Consulting Architect

  • Salary and expenses allocated for a Consulting Architect including travel and purchase of supplies.

Department of Finance and Justice

  • Court salaries for Supreme Court Justices, Judges of First Instance, clerks, deputies, and other employees across various districts.
  • Bureau of Justice salaries for Attorney-General, Solicitor-General, assistant attorneys, clerks, and special employees.
  • Contingent expenses for courts and Bureau of Justice including sheriffs' fees, criminal execution expenses, travel per diems, transportation, and printing.

Bureau of Audits

  • Salaries for Auditor, Deputy Auditor, clerks, district auditors, and messengers.
  • Contingent expenses include office supplies, travel expenses, printing, and communication costs.
  • Provides for employment and transfer of provincial clerks under civil service rules.

Bureau of Customs

  • Salaries for Collector, Deputy Collectors, clerks, appraisers, inspectors, and support personnel across various divisions.
  • Contingent expenses cover secret-agent expenses, supplies, launch maintenance, deportation costs, printing, and other incidentals.
  • Special provisions for customs service in Moro Province.

Bureau of Internal Revenue

  • Salaries for Collectors, deputies, clerks, field agents, laborers, and temporary employees.
  • Contingent expenses for secret funds, office supplies, launches, travel allowances, printing, and telecommunication.
  • Authorizes advances for purchase of transportation animals for agents.

Bureau of the Treasury

  • Salaries for Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, clerks, and messengers.
  • Contingent expenses include office supplies, travel expenses, communications, and printing.

Department of Public Instruction — Bureau of Education

  • Salaries for Director, Assistant Directors, division superintendents, teachers across various classes, and support employees.
  • Contingent expenses for purchase of school supplies, equipment, rent, medical attendance for pupils, printing, and student travel abroad.

Bureau of Supply

  • Salaries for Purchasing Agent, assistant, cashiers, buyers, clerks, superintendents, mechanics, and watchmen.
  • Contingent expenses include office supplies, transportation, rentals, repairs, communications, and printing.
  • Funds withdrawn from permanent appropriation; no surcharge on freight cost.

Bureau of Prisons

  • Salaries for Directors, assistant directors, clerks, stewards, guards, interpreters, chaplains, matrons, keepers, foremen, and employed labor.
  • Contingent expenses cover prisoner subsistence, supplies, building materials, laundry, burial, medical expenses, and travel.
  • Manufacturing department salaries and supply funds appropriated separately.

Bureau of Printing

  • Salaries for Director, Assistant Director, craftsmen instructors, clerks, watchmen, and temporary employees.
  • Contingent expenses for machinery, materials, supplies, printing, and emergency work.
  • Reporting exemptions for certain prescribed items.

Bureau of Cold Storage

  • Salaries for Director, clerks, salesmen, engineers, machinists, laborers, water tenders, and watchmen.
  • Contingent expenses for supplies, machinery maintenance, transportation, building care, communications, and printing.
  • Adjustments to prior appropriations authorized.

Bureau of Archives and Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings

  • Salaries and contingent expenses for archival personnel and architectural staff.
  • Public works appropriations for general repairs, maintenance, and specialized construction tasks on government buildings.

Official Gazette and American Circulating Library of Manila

  • Appropriations for salaries, wages, and contingent expenses for publication and library operations.

Custodians and Superintendents of Specific Buildings

  • Salaries and contingent expenses for custodians of Fortin, Intendencia, Oriente, and Santa Potenciana buildings.

Provincial Governments

  • Specific appropriations for salaries, wages, general expenses, maintenance, and transportation for various provincial governments including Benguet, Lepanto-Bontoc, Mindoro, Nueva Vizcaya, Palawan, and Zambales.

Miscellaneous Provisions

  • Authorizes payments and reimbursements for claims, transportation, additional compensation, and emergency expenditures.
  • Establishes salary and expense fund with rules for accrued leave payments.

Per Diem Allowances for Traveling Officers and Employees

  • Establishes graduated per diem rates based on annual salary.
  • Special provisions for field parties, judges, and officers of the U.S. Army or Navy detailed to Insular Government duties.

Appointment and Position Authority

  • Allows filling of vacancies by lower class appointees if total salary does not exceed authorized amount.
  • Authorizes temporary positions and employment to continue until formal appropriations are made.
  • Exempts certain positions from Civil Service Act and requires reporting of appointments and separations.

Compensation for Injuries and Medical Attendance

  • Authorizes continuation of regular pay for unclassified employees injured in the line of duty.
  • Allows payment for medical attendance, transportation, and hospital fees under certain conditions.

Commutation of Leave

  • Governor-General or department heads may commute accrued leave

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