An Act Appropriating the Sum of Five Hundred and Eighty-Four Thousand Four Hundred and Five Dollars and Forty Cents, in Money of the United States, or so Much Thereof as May be Necessary, in Part Compensation for the Service of the Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Two, and for Other Purposes

December 4, 1901

ACT NO. 311

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOUR THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE DOLLARS AND FORTY CENTS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, OR SO MUCH THEREOF AS MAY BE NECESSARY, IN PART COMPENSATION FOR THE SERVICE OF THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWO, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. The following sums, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in part compensation for the service of the Insular Government and of the city of Manila for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two (the same being the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two), this appropriation being for the second quarter of said fiscal year unless otherwise stated. The appropriations herein made, except for fixed salaries for the second quarter of said fiscal year, shall be available for the obligations of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two.

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Total appropriation for all purposes, five hundred and eighty-four thousand four hundred and five dollars and forty cents, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to return to the provincial governments, now or hereafter organized under the General Provincial Act, all the internal-revenue collections, including forestry collections made between the first of July, nineteen hundred and one, and such time as the provinces in which such collections have been made or shall be made, have been or shall be respectively organized, or until such time as the treasurer of such province shall have taken charge of the collections of internal-revenue for such province. One-half of such refunds shall be paid to the provincial treasurer and the other half shall be paid to the provincial treasurer to be by him distributed to the municipalities in which the same was collected. The authority for payment hereby conferred may be exercised from time to time in partial payments to the provincial treasurers until all that is due 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 Collector of Internal Revenue for the Islands, approved by the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago.

SECTION 3. The provincial board of the Province of Marinduque is hereby authorized to pay the sum of forty-two dollars and fifty cents, in money of the United States, to Victor C. Lewis, former supervisor of Marinduque, in full settlement of all expenses incurred by him in June, nineteen hundred and one, while on a trip from Marinduque to Manila and return, anything in Act Numbered One hundred and twenty-five limiting the traveling expenses of provincial officers while absent from the capital to the contrary notwithstanding.

SECTION 4. All funds appropriated by this Act shall be disbursed in local currency upon the basis of two dollars in local currency for one dollar money of the United States, except funds appropriated in this Act for the Women's Hospital in Manila and the Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant, which shall be disbursed in money of the United States.

The appropriation for the Philippine Civil Hospital in Act Numbered Two hundred and sixty-four is hereby amended so as to allow all such appropriations therein made for the purchase of supplies and furniture from the United States Army to be disbursed in United States currency.

SECTION 5. 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 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, December 4, 1901.