An Act Appropriating One Million Two Hundred and Twenty-Two Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-Two Dollars and Eighty-Three Cents, or So Much Thereof as May Be Necessary, in Money of the United States, to Pay the Expenses of the Insular Government for the Third Quarter of the Year Nineteen Hundred and One, and Other Designated Periods

July 13, 1901

ACT NO. 163

AN ACT APPROPRIATING ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO DOLLARS AND EIGHTY-THREE CENTS, OR SO MUCH THEREOF AS MAY BE NECESSARY, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, TO PAY THE EXPENSES OF THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT FOR THE THIRD QUARTER OF THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ONE, AND OTHER DESIGNATED PERIODS

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in money of the United States, are hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the expenses of the Insular Government for the third quarter of the year nineteen hundred and one, and other designated periods.

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Total appropriations for all purposes, in money of the United States, one million two hundred and twenty-two thousand seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty-three cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated out of the Insular Treasury from funds not otherwise appropriated a sum sufficient to return to the provincial governments now or hereafter organized under the General Provincial Government Act, all the internal-revenue collections made between the first of January, nineteen hundred and one, and the first of July, nineteen hundred and one in said provinces, in accordance with section thirty-seven of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-three, one-half to be paid into the provincial treasury and the other half to be paid to the provincial treasurer, to be by him distributed to the municipalities in which the same were collected. The authority for payment hereby conferred may be exercised from time to time in partial payments to provincial treasurers until that is due under section thirty-seven of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-three shall be paid. The warrants for the same shall be drawn upon the application of the provincial treasurers in the amounts certified to be correct by the Insular Collector of Internal Revenue, approved by the Insular Auditor. In so far as the manner of payment provided in section thirty-seven of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-three is inconsistent with that herein provided, such section number thirty-seven is hereby modified.

SECTION 3. Disbursing officers are hereby directed to disburse all funds by this Act appropriated, one-half in money of the United States and one-half in local currency, upon the basis of two dollars of local currency for one dollar of money of the United States. Warrants shall be drawn in money of the United States, but disbursing officers are hereby required to procure on the warrants one-half in money of the United States and one-half in local currency, for the purpose of complying with this section.

SECTION 4. 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.

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

ENACTED, July 13, 1901.