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[ Act No. 687, March 16, 1903 ]
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE PROVINCIAL BOARD OF ILOCOS SUR TO PAY FOR LABOR ON ROADS AND BRIDGES IN RICE INSTEAD OF IN MONEY, AS THE NECESSITIES OF THE SITUATION MAY DEMAND.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. Whereas the municipality of Cabugao, Province of Ilocos Sur, has been destroyed by fire and large quantities of rice stored by the inhabitants thereof have been destroyed:
The provincial board of the Province of Ilocos Sur is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to expend a proper portion of money, devoted to the repairs of roads and bridges of that province, for the purchase of rice and to pay the wages of laborers in rice instead of in money, as the necessities of the situation may demand, and any action of the provincial board heretofore taken in authorizing the payment of the wages of laborers in rice for the above-mentioned purposes is hereby ratified and confirmed.
SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, March 16, 1903.
SECTION 1. Whereas the municipality of Cabugao, Province of Ilocos Sur, has been destroyed by fire and large quantities of rice stored by the inhabitants thereof have been destroyed:
The provincial board of the Province of Ilocos Sur is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to expend a proper portion of money, devoted to the repairs of roads and bridges of that province, for the purchase of rice and to pay the wages of laborers in rice instead of in money, as the necessities of the situation may demand, and any action of the provincial board heretofore taken in authorizing the payment of the wages of laborers in rice for the above-mentioned purposes is hereby ratified and confirmed.
SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, March 16, 1903.