An Act Appropriating the Sum of Two Hundred and Thirty-Eight Thousand Five Hundred and Seventy-Five Dollars for the Purpose of Continuing the Construction of the Benguet Road

August 20, 1903

ACT NO. 835

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONTINUING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BENGUET ROAD

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, for the purpose of continuing the construction of the Benguet road.

For salaries and wages, including the unpaid portion of the salary of N.M. Holmes, chief engineer, from August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, to July first, nineteen hundred and three, at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum; and compensation for services rendered in securing laborers; one hundred and forty thousand dollars.

For subsistence of employees, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For the purchase of materials and supplies, including medicines, medical supplies, and surgical instruments, twenty thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For transportation of officials, employees, and supplies, including the purchase of means of transportation and its maintenance, and the sum of two hundred and seventy-five dollars to reimburse Major L.W.V. Kennon, United States Army, engineer in charge, for traveling expenses and subsistence when absent from his station on official business, forty thousand three hundred dollars.

In all, for the purposes of this Act, two hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars, in currency of the United States.

SECTION 2. The provisions of the first paragraph of section three of Act Numbered Eight hundred and seven, providing the manner in which withdrawals of moneys appropriated under said Act shall be made in other than United States currency or Philippines currency, are hereby made applicable to the withdrawal of moneys appropriated under this Act.

SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, August 20, 1903.