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[ Act No. 130, May 20, 1901 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING NINETEEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY DOLLARS AND FORTY-THREE CENTS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR EXPENSES INCURRED AND SALARIES EARNED, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ONE.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. The Chief Quartermaster of the Division of the Philippines is hereby authorized to expend from unexpended appropriations in his hands five hundred dollars for the official telegraphing over commercial lines by the following officers:

The Civil Commissioners and the Secretary of the Commission; the Auditor; the Treasurer; the General Superintendent of Public Instruction; the Collector of Internal Revenue for the Islands; the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the Director-General of Posts; the Chief of the Forestry Bureau; the Chief of the Bureau of Mining; the Captain of the Port at Manila; the collectors of customs of the various ports; members of the provincial board of each province on provincial business.

SEC. 2. The following sums, in money of the United States, are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay expenses incurred and salaries earned not provided for in the General Appropriation Act for the second quarter of the year nineteen hundred and one:

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL AND DEPARTMENTS REPORTING TO HIM.

Department of Receipts and Disbursements:

For the employment of an additional clerk class nine, hereby authorized, from May tenth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.

Department of Prisons:

For the purchase of cloth for suits for criminals in Bilibid Prison and the Carcel Publica, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

Department of City Public Works:

For the construction of necessary booths and conveniences in the Herran Street Market, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight dollars and sixteen cents.

Quartermaster of the provost guard:

For rent of civil police barracks, as follows: Number one hundred and forty-four Calle Barcelona, from January first to March thirty-first; number twenty Calle Isla del Romero, from December nineteenth, nineteen hundred, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one; number nineteen Calle Herran, from January sixth to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one; number four hundred and thirty-seven Calle Santa Mesa, from December sixteenth, nineteen hundred, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one; number one hundred and eighty Calle Nueva, from December first, nineteen hundred, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one; number three hundred and twenty-seven Calle Real, Malate, from January first to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one; number three hundred and eighteen Calle Real, Malate, from January thirteenth to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one; nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and ninety-eight cents.

For rooms at Hotel Universal from January sixteenth to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one sixty dollars: for rooms at Hotel Oriente used as quarters for Army officers detailed for police duty, from January first to February fifth, nineteen hundred and one, forty-three dollars and seventy-five cents.

For converting Fort Santiago into a prison, eight hundred dollars; for one iron kettle for use in cooking for prisoners, one hundred and eight dollars; for constructing cement drains at Santa Mesa military police station, six hundred and fifty dollars; for supplies for native police department as follows: Minding books, printing forms, one thousand dollars; eight hundred and fifty-six police badges, two hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty cents; eight hundred and fifty-six police clubs, two hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty cents; two thousand uniforms for native police, seven hundred and twenty caps, and five hundred pairs of shoes, seven thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty cents.

For rent of schoolhouse. number five hundred and twenty-five Calle Lemeri, from January first to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one, three hundred dollars; for increased rents in six schoolhouses, from January first to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents; for increased rent in five houses used as police stations, from January first to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and fifty-eight dollars; for increased rent of number two hundred and ten Calle Marcelino, quarters of officers detailed for military police duty in Manila, for February and March, twenty dollars; for installation and maintenance of lights in the Administration Building, Exposition Grounds, twenty-nine dollars and thirty-one cents; repairs to the Cuartel de España, two hundred dollars; for awnings for the Provost-Marshal-General's office, seventy-five dollars; for forage and shoeing of native horses, two hundred and sixty-five dollars; in all, twelve thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars and ninety-four cents.

In all, for the office of the Provost-Marshal-General and departments reporting to him seventeen thousand and three dollars and seventy-seven cents.

GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

For rent of three rooms at number three hundred and forty Calle Palacio, from April twentieth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, three hundred and fifty dollars.

TREASURER OF THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO.

For salary of the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago, from April sixteenth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; for one driver for department conveyance for the second quarter of the year nineteen hundred and one, thirty dollars.

In all, for the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago, one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.

COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE AT IMUS, CAVITE.

For reimbursement for rent for quarters for February and March, five dollars; for rent of building for office and quarters for the Internal Revenue Department at Imus, Cavite, for the months of May and June, nineteen hundred and one, thirty-five dollars.

In all, for the collector of internal revenue at Imus, Cavite, forty dollars.

DISBURSING OFFICER OF THE UNITED STATES PHILIPPINE COMMISSION.

For reimbursement for sums advanced to Richard W. Young, president of the criminal branch of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Philippine Islands, resigned and returning to his home, by direction of the Commission, as follows: One hundred dollars for traveling expenses, and four hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents in lieu of month's salary; in all, five hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents.

Total of all appropriations, in money of the United States, nineteen thousand one hundred and ninety dollars and forty-three cents.

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, May 20, 1901.
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