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[ Act No. 563, December 22, 1902 ]
AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX DOLLARS AND SIXTY CENTS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, OR SO MUCH THEREOF AS MAYBE NECESSARY, FOR EXPENSES OF THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT DURING THE FISCAL YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THREE, AND OTHER DESIGNATED PERIODS.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. The sum of one bundled and eight thousand three hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty cents, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes and objects hereinafter named:
For the purchase of the house known as the "Lacalle House," situated at number three hundred and eighty-four Calle General Solano, forty-five thousand dollars.
Construction and Maintenance of telegraph, telephone, and cable lines, Signal Service, nineteen hundred and three: For the purchase of cables for the use of the Philippine Archipelago, thirty-seven thousand six hundred and seventy dollars.
Pay of stenographic reporters and witnesses, Chief Quartermaster, Division of the Philippines: For the pay of stenographic reporters and witnesses during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and two, before military commission in the trial of crimes committed in unorganized territory in the Philippine Archipelago, forty-one dollars and sixty cents.
For commutation of salary of Bernard Moses as Commissioner and Secretary of Public Instruction, for accrued leave of absence for the period of six months, seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For salary for the naval officer in charge of the Nautical School, at one hundred dollars per month, from June first, nineteen hundred and one, to December first, nineteen hundred and one, six hundred dollars.
For the construction of a schoolhouse in the town of Siassi, under the direction of Captain Le Roy Eltinge, Fifteenth United States Cavalry, two hundred and forty dollars.
For the enlargement and repair of the trail from Naguilian, Province of La Union, to the Benguet line, on the road between San Fernando and Baguio, under the direction of the provincial supervisor of the Province of La Union, one thousand dollars.
For the repair of the trail on the rood between San Fernando and Baguio, from the Benguet line to Baguio, under the direction of the provincial governor of Benguet, one thousand dollars.
For the payment of claims during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, against the United States prison at Lingayen, which are properly chargeable to Insular funds, twenty-five dollars.
Insular salary and, expense fund, nineteen hundred and three: For the payment of salaries and expenses of civil officials which are properly chargeable to Insular funds and not otherwise specifically provided for. including half salary and traveling expenses of employees and the United States to Manila, and for the payment to the estates of deceased employees of salaries due such employees for the leaves of absence to which they were entitled at the time of their deaths, in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Four hundred and forty-eight, fifteen thousand dollars.
SEC. 2. The appropriations herein made shall be withdrawn from the Treasury in local currency at the ratio authorized at the time of withdrawal, and payments in local currency of all obligations of the Insular Government properly expressed in United States currency, shall be in the ratio in force at the time of payment.
SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this appropriation 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, December 22, 1902.
SECTION 1. The sum of one bundled and eight thousand three hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty cents, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes and objects hereinafter named:
For the purchase of the house known as the "Lacalle House," situated at number three hundred and eighty-four Calle General Solano, forty-five thousand dollars.
Construction and Maintenance of telegraph, telephone, and cable lines, Signal Service, nineteen hundred and three: For the purchase of cables for the use of the Philippine Archipelago, thirty-seven thousand six hundred and seventy dollars.
Pay of stenographic reporters and witnesses, Chief Quartermaster, Division of the Philippines: For the pay of stenographic reporters and witnesses during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and two, before military commission in the trial of crimes committed in unorganized territory in the Philippine Archipelago, forty-one dollars and sixty cents.
For commutation of salary of Bernard Moses as Commissioner and Secretary of Public Instruction, for accrued leave of absence for the period of six months, seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For salary for the naval officer in charge of the Nautical School, at one hundred dollars per month, from June first, nineteen hundred and one, to December first, nineteen hundred and one, six hundred dollars.
For the construction of a schoolhouse in the town of Siassi, under the direction of Captain Le Roy Eltinge, Fifteenth United States Cavalry, two hundred and forty dollars.
For the enlargement and repair of the trail from Naguilian, Province of La Union, to the Benguet line, on the road between San Fernando and Baguio, under the direction of the provincial supervisor of the Province of La Union, one thousand dollars.
For the repair of the trail on the rood between San Fernando and Baguio, from the Benguet line to Baguio, under the direction of the provincial governor of Benguet, one thousand dollars.
For the payment of claims during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, against the United States prison at Lingayen, which are properly chargeable to Insular funds, twenty-five dollars.
Insular salary and, expense fund, nineteen hundred and three: For the payment of salaries and expenses of civil officials which are properly chargeable to Insular funds and not otherwise specifically provided for. including half salary and traveling expenses of employees and the United States to Manila, and for the payment to the estates of deceased employees of salaries due such employees for the leaves of absence to which they were entitled at the time of their deaths, in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Four hundred and forty-eight, fifteen thousand dollars.
SEC. 2. The appropriations herein made shall be withdrawn from the Treasury in local currency at the ratio authorized at the time of withdrawal, and payments in local currency of all obligations of the Insular Government properly expressed in United States currency, shall be in the ratio in force at the time of payment.
SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this appropriation 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, December 22, 1902.