An Act Amending Act Numbered Seven Hundred and Eighty-Seven, Entitled "An Act Providing for the Organization and Government of the Moro Province"

August 12, 1903

ACT NO. 833

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN, ENTITLED "AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE MORO PROVINCE"

SECTION 1. Section seven of an Act entitled "An Act providing for the organization and government of the Moro Province" is hereby amended by striking out the clause between the semicolons in the twentieth and twenty-seventh lines of said section and substituting therefor the following: "He shall, on or before the tenth day of each month, render an account of the transactions of his office for the preceding month to the legislative council, hereinafter created, who, by committee, shall examine such accounts and count the cash and if said accounts are found correct so certify on the face of the accounts. He shall forward one copy of each monthly account-current to the Insular Treasurer and one copy of the same to the Insular Auditor, the latter accompanied by supporting vouchers, receipts, and abstracts."

SECTION 2. Said Act is also hereby amended by striking out the following sentence in section eighteen: "He shall render a quarterly account of his collections and disbursements to the provincial treasurer, and shall, as he may be ordered by the provincial treasurer, retain custody of the money which he has collected or forward same or any part thereof to the provincial treasurer," and substituting therefor: "He shall within ten days after the close of each month render accounts-current in triplicate to the provincial treasurer, showing all collections and disbursements made by him during the preceding month as well as all the transfers of money from or to him. Within ten days after receipt of same the provincial treasurer shall forward to the Insular Treasurer a copy of the account-current. At the same time one copy of the account-current, supported by proper vouchers, receipts, and certified copy of the acts and resolutions of the legislative council, shall be forwarded by the provincial treasurer to the Insular Auditor, and one copy shall be retained in the office of the provincial treasurer. Before forwarding to the Auditor an account of a district treasurer, the provincial treasurer shall give the same an administrative examination, transmitting a copy of the result of such examination, for the information of the Insular Auditor, with the account so transmitted. The district treasurer shall, as he may be ordered by the provincial treasurer, retain custody of the money which he has collected or forward the same, or any part thereof, to the provincial treasury.

SECTION 3. All sums appropriated by the Insular Government for the expense of the collection of customs revenues in the Moro Province shall be refunded to the Insular Treasury from the gross amount of the customs receipts collected in said province, on or before the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and four, and each succeeding year.

SECTION 4. 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 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, August 12, 1903.