The Municipal code and the Provincial government act, being Act no. 82, entitled "A general act for the organization of municipal governments in the Philippine islands", and Act no. 83, entitled "A general act for the organization of provincial governments in the Philippine islands" as amended by the acts of the Philippine commission down to and including May 31, 1905, revised and codified by the Committee on revision and codification appointed by the governor-general. Published by authority of the Philippine commission.

THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT ACT.

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presiding officer of the board. The provincial secretary shall be
the secretary of the board and keep its minutes, but shall not
be a member thereof.
[See note 1 to section 16.]
SEC. 13. It shall be the duty of the provincial board:
(a) To fix the rate per centum of ad valorem taxation to be
imposed upon the real estate of the province for provincial
purposes within the limits hereinafter prescribed.
(b) To provide by construction or purchase or renting suitable
offices for the provincial officers, and a court-house containing
a room or rooms suitable for the holding of court and for offices
for the court officers and a provincial jail in the municipality
fixed by law as the capital of the province.

Duties of board.
Tax rate.
Court-houses.
Jail.

Note.-SECTION 1. In each province where a first or second Weather station
class station of the Philippine Weather Bureau is provided rooms.
for by law at the provincial capital, the provincial board shall
assign a room or rooms adequate for the installation of the
meteorological instruments and office equipment of the station,
and to afford sleeping accommodations for the observers. The
room or rooms shall be in the provincial building if practicable, but if there is no suitable room available in the provincial building, then the board shall provide such a room or
rooms by rental or by construction, and the expense incurred
by reason of such rental or construction shall be a charge
upon the funds of the province.
SEC. 3. The question of the adequacy of rooms furnished by Adequacy of
provincial or municipal governments under the provisions of rooms.
sections one and two of this Act shall be determined in each
instance by the Director of the Philippine Weather Bureau,
subject to an appeal to the Governor-General, whose decision
shall be final.-Act 368, March 4, 1902.
(c) To furnish a suitable vault or safe to the provincial Vault or safe.
treasurer, in which he shall keep the provincial and other public
funds as long as they are in his custody, except as hereinafter
provided.
(d) To order, in its discretion, the construction, repair, or Ro ads a n d
maintenance of roads, bridges, and ferries within the portions of bridges
the province fixed under section ten of this Act as within its
control on the recommendation of the provincial supervisor, and to
approve or reject contracts for such construction and repair, and
the construction and repair of provincial buildings let by the
provincial supervisor.

Note 1.-SECTION 1. The provincial board of any province Purchase of
organized under the Provincial Government Act is hereby wheels.
authorized, out of any funds available for the general purposes
of the provincial government, to purchase not exceeding two
hundred and fifty pairs of wheels, with the corresponding
axles and with tires of a width not less than two and one-half
inches, and to sell the same in the province at the price of
purchase, together with the expense of their transportation
to the province, for the purpose of showing the inhabitants
how Act Numbered Seven hundred and seventy-four [section
43 (j) of the Municipal Code] can be properly complied
with.-Act 902, September 25, 1903.. ',;
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