An Act Appropriating the Sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, in Money of the United States, for Preliminary Expenses in the Purchase of Draft Cattle for the Relief of Agricultural Conditions in the Philippine Islands
Act No. 738, enacted on April 8, 1903, appropriates $100,000 from a larger fund allocated by the U.S. Congress for alleviating agricultural depression in the Philippines. This amount is designated for preliminary expenses related to the purchase of draft cattle, including costs for agents’ travel, immunization against rinderpest, and transportation logistics. The Insular Purchasing Agent is responsible for managing and accounting for these funds. The Act emphasizes the urgency of its passage for the public good and takes effect immediately upon enactment.
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- Act No. 738
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- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
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April 8, 1903
ACT NO. 738
AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR PRELIMINARY EXPENSES IN THE PURCHASE OF DRAFT CATTLE FOR THE RELIEF OF AGRICULTURAL CONDITIONS IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred thousand dollars, in money of the United States, is hereby appropriated out of the three million dollars voted by the Congress of the United States for the relief of agricultural depression in the Philippine Islands and now on deposit in the depository of the Philippine Government in the city of New York to the credit of the Insular Treasury for the preliminary expenses of the Insular Purchasing Agent and other agents of the Insular Government in visiting the ports and countries where draft cattle may be purchased, in paying agents for the procuring of such cattle, in securing the necessary immunization against rinderpest of the cattle purchased, in paying the purchase price for same, in chartering the necessary transportation for their importation into the Philippine Islands, and for all other expenses incident to their purchase and delivery in the Philippine Islands.
SECTION 2. The sum of money by this Act appropriated shall be expended by the Insular Purchasing Agent, and accounted for by him as provided by law.
SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
ENACTED, April 8, 1903.
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An Act Appropriating the Sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, in Money of the United States, for Preliminary Expenses in the Purchase of Draft Cattle for the Relief of Agricultural Conditions in the Philippine Islands, Act No. 738, Apr 8, 1903 (Philippines)
An Act Appropriating the Sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, in Money of the United States, for Preliminary Expenses in the Purchase of Draft Cattle for the Relief of Agricultural Conditions in the Philippine Islands, Act No. 738 (Phil. 1903)
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