Public Act No. 2760 - February 23, 1918
AN ACT TO CONFIRM AND RATIFY ALL STEPS TAKEN FOR THE ERECTION, MAINTENANCE,
AND IMPROVEMENT OF NATIONAL MONUMENTS AND PARTICULARLY FOR THE ERECTION OF A
MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF ANDRES BONIFACIO, TO AUTHORIZE THE CREATION OF A
COMMITTEE OR COMMITTEES FOR TAKING UP POPULAR SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND TO
APPROPRIATE FUNDS THEREFOR.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Philip/pines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:
SECTION 1. The preliminary steps taken with a view to erecting a
monument to the memory of Andres Bonifacio and the idea of erecting,
maintaining, and improving national monuments of this character, as
expressed in Act Numbered Twenty-four hundred and ninety-four, are
hereby confirmed and ratified. For this purpose and in order to expedite
as much as possible the realization of the plan s to erect a monument to
the memory of Andres Bonifacio, the Secretary of the Interior is
authorized to appoint a committee or committees for the purpose of
taking up popular subscriptions in such manner and subject to such
conditions as said Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. The members
of these committees shall serve without compensation. The funds so
collected shall be expended by the Secretary of the Interior in any
manner conducive to the purpose of the subscription, that is, the
erection of the monument, which may include the ordinary payment of
agents for the collection on a percentage or per
diem basis, in the discretion of said Secretary of
the Interior.
SEC. 2. As soon as in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior a
sufficient sum shall have been raised by popular subscription, the
Insular Government shall contribute a like sum for the expenses above
mentioned, and said Secretary of the Interior shall forthwith direct the
work of the erection of the monument to be begun. The Secretary of the
Interior may designate any officer or employee of the Insular
Government, the city of Manila, or any provincial or municipal
government for duty, either individually or as member of a committee, in
connection with any work relative to the erection of said monument or
the collection of funds therefor, without additional compensation.
SEC. 3. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-five thousand
pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum shall be at the
disposal of the Secretary of the Interior for the purposes of this Act.
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, February 23, 1918.