Proceedings of the first Independence congress : held in the city of Manila, Philippine islands, February 22-26, 1930 / Published under the direction of Dean maximo M. Kalaw, executive secretary, University of the Philippines.

258 INDEPENDENCE CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS

(c) Utility and extension of the benefits it would bring,
taking into account the sections which would be developed with
its opening: and
(d) Its connection with the ports and principal highways
of other limiting provinces.
This road will connect with those of the other provinces
to form part of the national system already mentioned.
Secondly, the same convention will decide also that other
highways of secondary importance should be so constructed as
to unite different municipalities among themselves and connect
them with the national highway. S
Thirdly, the same assembly should equally show and recommend what roads and highways should be considered as most
important in all municipalities and should be made to connect
some barrios with others and join them with other provincial
highways and finally with the cited national or insular highway.
It has already been said that in this study should be included
not only the highways and bridges but also other improvements for the fostering of commerce and material development
of the country as the posts and terminals, especially in isolated
provinces which have no direct connection with free and open
ports for the exterior commerce.
Once the convention has decided about the extremes, all the
papers about the case should be sent to the office of public works
for the study of the details, this coordination, and in short,
the total perfectionment of the plan.
Thus, the question might be reduced to simple and concrete
terms in this form: The insular or annually voted funds by A
the Legislature would be applied to the construction of highways which would form the main trunk of the insular or
national system, the provincial annual funds should be used
for provincial roads to unite municipalities; and the municipal
funds should be spent only for roads within the municipality
connecting its barrios or connecting them with their neighbors.
With a plan thus formed, the Department of Commerce and
Communications may then dedicate to the study of all projects