An Act Making Appropriations for Sundry Expenses of the Insular Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Five, and Other Designated Periods

August 31, 1904

ACT NO. 1225

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY EXPENSES OF THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE, AND OTHER DESIGNATED PERIODS

SECTION 1. The following sums, 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 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, unless otherwise stated:

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Total of appropriations for all purposes, sixteen million, five hundred and twenty-four thousand nine hundred and forty-one pesos and sixty centavos, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SECTION 2. Upon the approval of the Civil Governor, or proper head of Department first had, a vacancy in a position of any class may be filled by the appointment of more than one person of a lower class: Provided, That the aggregate of salaries paid is not greater than the salary authorized by law for that position.

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 in 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 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 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, August 31, 1904.