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.

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Cart and sledge
Act, extensions.
Provincial funds
for roads and
bridges.
Roads through
municipalities.
Payments to
treasurer.
Boundary roads,
agreement.

THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT ACT.

Note 2.-SECTION 1. The provincial boards of the various
provinces of the Islands organized under the provisions of Act
Numbered Eighty-three are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to extend. the time within which may be used carts with
wheels having tires less than two and one-half inches in width
and with wheels rigid with the axles, and all sledges, to a
date not later than the thirty-first day of May, nineteen hundred and four.-Act 1023, December 10, 1903.
[See note 2 to section 43 (j) of The Municipal Code.]
Note 3.-SECTION 1. The provincial board of any province
organized under the Provincial Government Act is hereby
authorized, in its discretion, to expend a portion of the funds
in the provincial treasury for the construction and repair of
roads and bridges in the inhabited parts of the province whenever the board shall determine that the municipality within
the inhabited parts of which such roads and bridges are
situated is financially unable to make the construction or
repairs referred to, and that the construction or repair of
such roads and bridges is of general importance to the province and ought to be made in whole or in part out of provincial funds, anything in existing legislation to the contrary
notwithstanding.
SEC. 2. In case the provincial board shall determine that a
road or bridge of general importance to the province, within
the inhabited portion of a municipality, is in need of repair,
and shall notify the municipal council of the municipality in
which such road or bridge is situated of the necessity of such
repairs, and the municipal council shall fail for thirty days
to proceed to make the repairs required, the provincial board
is hereby authorized to make such repairs out of provincial
funds and to assess the whole or any equitable part of the
expense thus incurred against the delinquent municipality,
taking into consideration in such assessment the ability of the
municipality to bear the whole or any portion of the expense,
and the utility of the road or bridge for the general interests
of the province: Provided, That the authority granted in this
and the preceding section shall not apply to purely local roads
or bridges. It shall be the duty of the municipal treasurer
to pay to the provincial treasurer such sum or sums as may
be assessed against the municipality by virtue of the provisions of this section.-Act 443, August 6, 1902.
(e) To agree, upon the recommendation of the provincial supervisor, with the provincial board of an adjoining province on the
terms within the limitations of law, upon which roads forming the
boundary between the two provinces, and bridges and ferries

crossing streams forming such boundary shall be constructed,
repaired, or maintained under the joint control of the two provincial governments.
Suits. (f) To direct, in its discretion, the bringing or defense of
suits on behalf of the provincial government and to compromise
the same upon the recommendation of the provincial fiscal and
the approval of the judge of First Instance for the province.
Salaries, pay- (g) To order the monthly payment of all salaries provided by
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law and the payment of all lawfully contracted indebtedness, by
directing the issue of warrants upon the provincial treasurer.
Warrants. Every warrant shall be drawn by the governor and countersigned... by the secretary, and shall recite the cause and purpose of,,~
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