An Act Making Appropriations for Sundry Expenses of the Municipal Government of the City of Manila for the Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Four, and Other Designated Periods

July 23, 1903

ACT NO. 804

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY EXPENSES OF THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF MANILA FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FOUR, AND OTHER DESIGNATED PERIODS

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, in part compensation for the service of the municipal government of the city of Manila for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, these appropriations being for the first half of said fiscal year, unless otherwise stated. The appropriations herein made, except for fixed salaries for the first half of said fiscal year, shall be available for obligations of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, unless otherwise stated:

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In all, for the city of Manila, nine hundred and sixty-nine thousand and fifteen dollars.

SECTION 2. The payment of certain vouchers from the firm of Manuel Earnshaw and Company, covering repairs to the steam launch Washington during the month of March, nineteen hundred and three, amounting to three thousand nine hundred and forty-seven dollars, Mexican currency, and an additional voucher for extra work on said launch amounting to eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and ninety-nine cents, Mexican currency, is hereby authorized: Provided, That the Auditor shall approve the disbursement of these sums, the provisions of sections thirty and thirty-one of Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-three to the contrary notwithstanding in view of the circumstances in this case, which were that the work of repairs had been begun with the information that the cost thereof probably would not reach five hundred dollars, but that the necessity for additional repairs costing more than five hundred dollars was shown when the launch was placed in dry dock and unknown defects then discovered, when it would have involved a large additional expense to delay until bids could be invited in accordance with law.

SECTION 3. In all cases in which provision for the salary of a clerkship or grade heretofore provided by law is not made by this Act, such clerkship or grade is hereby authorized from July first, nineteen hundred and three, until five days after the passage of this Act, and, when necessary, an additional appropriation of the amount required for the payment of such salary is hereby made.

SECTION 4. No moneys appropriated in this Act are available for withdrawal in other than United States currency or Philippines currency, at the option of the Insular Treasurer. In any case where it appears to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Finance and Justice that any obligation of the Philippine Government, entered into by contract or otherwise, is legally payable only in Mexican or Spanish-Filipino currency, and the appropriation available therefor is in United States currency or Philippines currency, the Secretary of Finance and Justice may authorize the Insular Treasurer to transfer to the proper disbursing officer the amount of Mexican or Spanish-Filipino currency required for said payment, in exchange for the equivalent amount in United States currency or Philippines currency at the authorized rate of exchange at the time such exchange is made. Notice of such exchange with the authority therefore shall be given forthwith to the Auditor by the Treasurer and the disbursing officer concerned.

All moneys, appropriated prior to the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, paid out of the Treasury after July first, nineteen hundred and three, shall be payable only in United States currency or Philippines currency, at the option of the Insular Treasurer: Provided, however, That exchange between Mexican or Spanish-Filipino currency and United States or Philippines currency may be had as provided in this section.

SECTION 5. 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 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, July 23, 1903. cSEDTC