AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR LIGHTHOUSE STATIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES.

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1144, June 17, 1954 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR LIGHTHOUSE STATIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

Section 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated out of the Port Works Funds" that have accrued under Act Numberd Three thousand five hundred and ninety-two, as amended not otherwise appropriated, to be spent by the Secretary of Public Works and Communications subject to the provisions of this Act for the purposes mentioned hereunder:

(a) For the construction, reconstruction, repair and improvement of installations in the following lighthouse stations, including the purchase of necessary materials and equipment:

Section 2. All sums appropriated under section one of this Act shall be released only after certification by the Secretary of Finance and the Auditor General to the
President of the Philippines that there are sufficient Port Works Funds to warrant such release and that no amount appropriated under this Act shall be set up in the books of the General Auditing Office or otherwise made available for expenditure unless previously authorized by the
President of the Philippines.

Section 3. The Secretary of Public Works and Communications is hereby authorized to spend for the completion of any of the projects above specified any saving that may be effected in the appropriation intended for any other of said projects; Provided, That no part of such saving shall be spent for salaries, wages or traveling expenses of office personnel.

Section 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 17, 1954.