An Act Amending Act Numbered One Hundred and Forty-Six, As Amended

August 4, 1903

ACT NO. 820

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX, AS AMENDED

SECTION 1. Section six of Act Numbered One hundred and forty-six, as amended by Act Numbered Two hundred and thirty-one, is hereby further amended by striking out said section and substituting therefor the following:

"SEC. 6.(a) Each head of a Department of the Insular Government or of the city of Manila, and each provincial supervisor, shall make written requisition from time to time upon the Insular Purchasing Agent for all property or supplies he may require, and for the payment of which he has an appropriation available.

"(b) Payment for all articles and supplies so furnished shall be made to the Insular Purchasing Agent at the actual cost thereof in the city of Manila, including freight and all other expenses incident to the delivery in the warehouse of the Insular Purchasing Agent at Manila, and ten per centum additional upon such cost for freight, storage, book-keeping, breakage, and other proper charges, by the Department, Bureau, or Office, or provincial or city government receiving the same, from its available appropriations.

"(c) All requisitions for property or supplies of any kind made upon the Insular Purchasing Agent shall first be submitted for the approval or disapproval of the Secretary of the Department having jurisdiction over the official making such requisitions, and the Insular Purchasing Agent shall not honor any requisition unless the same is first approved as herein provided.

"(d) The Executive Secretary for the Philippine Islands shall have jurisdiction over and approve or disapprove all requisitions for property or supplies of every kind made upon the Insular Purchasing Agent by any provincial or municipal official, by the Philippine Civil Service Board, and by all other officers of the Insular Government not by law specifically placed under the jurisdiction of one of the Executive Departments: Provided, however, That this provision shall not apply to the city of Manila, in which case the certificate of the Municipal Board approving the requisition shall be sufficient.

"(e) No property or supplies of any kind purchased or procured under any requisition, as herein provided, shall be forwarded by the Insular Purchasing Agent to any province or provincial officer or municipality until after he has received a certificate signed by the provincial treasurer or municipal treasurer, as the case may be, that there is sufficient money in the provincial or municipal treasury to pay for such property or supplies, including all proper expenses, and that the necessary sum of money has been set aside by the provincial board or municipal council and is reserved for making such payment."

SECTION 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.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, August 4, 1903. ATICcS