An Act Authorizing the Insular Purchasing Agent to Employ Emergency Clerks and Grant Overtime Pay to a Specified Number of Employees for a Limited Period, and Making an Appropriation to Cover the Salaries of Such Emergency Employees and the Overtime Pay Authorized

September 22, 1903

ACT NO. 896

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE INSULAR PURCHASING AGENT TO EMPLOY EMERGENCY CLERKS AND GRANT OVERTIME PAY TO A SPECIFIED NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES FOR A LIMITED PERIOD, AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO COVER THE SALARIES OF SUCH EMERGENCY EMPLOYEES AND THE OVERTIME PAY AUTHORIZED

SECTION 1. The Insular Purchasing Agent is hereby authorized to employ three emergency clerks for a period not exceeding one month, at a salary of one hundred dollars, United States currency, per month each, and to employ five clerks of the Insular Government outside of their regular office hours for three hours each day for a period not exceeding thirty days, and grant pay to such employees for such overtime services at the rate of sixty cents, United States currency, each per hour, the provisions of Act Numbered One hundred and forty-eight to the contrary notwithstanding to enable said official to prepare and furnish forthwith to the Insular Auditor a return of public civil property covering the period from April first to September fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, both dates inclusive, accompanied by an abstract of property sold and which remains as yet unpaid for.

SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and seventy dollars, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of paying the salaries of the emergency clerks herein authorized and the overtime pay which may become due by virtue of this Act.

SECTION 3. 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, are hereby made applicable to the withdrawal of moneys appropriated under this Act.

SECTION 4. 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 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, September 22, 1903.