An Act Authorizing a Temporary Increase in the Number of Employees in the Custom-House at Manila

November 19, 1902

ACT NO. 526

AN ACT AUTHORIZING A TEMPORARY INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES IN THE CUSTOM-HOUSE AT MANILA

SECTION 1. In view of the great number of foreign vessels at present discharging in the harbor of Manila and of the approaching increase in customs business during the next two months, and of the greatly increased work made temporarily necessary in the assessment of duties upon Christmas presents arriving in these Islands, the Collector of Customs for the Philippine Archipelago is hereby authorized to appoint temporarily, for a period not to exceed two months from the date of this Act, six fourth-class examiners of class ten, six fourth-class inspectors of Class A, and ten guards of class J, or so much thereof as may be in his judgment necessary.

SECTION 2. The sum of two thousand three hundred dollars, in money of the United States, or its equivalent in local currency at the official rate of exchange, is hereby appropriated, from any funds of the United States in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes of this Act.

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. SDHTEC

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

ENACTED, November 19, 1902.