An Act Making Appropriations for the Maintenance of a Hospital Ship for Use in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, and for Other Purposes
Act No. 2513, enacted on February 5, 1915, establishes annual appropriations for maintaining a hospital ship to serve the isolated inhabitants of the Sulu Archipelago, addressing their urgent medical needs. The law allocates funds for personnel salaries and operational expenses for a five-year period, starting July 1, 1915. It mandates the conversion of a coast-guard cutter into the hospital ship, which will remain government property but operated under local governance. The act stipulates that private philanthropy must contribute at least twenty-five thousand pesos annually for the ship’s maintenance and operation. The act takes effect immediately upon passage.
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- What is An Act Making Appropriations for the Maintenance of a Hospital Ship for Use in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, and for Other Purposes about?
- Act No. 2513, enacted on February 5, 1915, establishes annual appropriations for maintaining a hospital ship to serve the isolated inhabitants of the Sulu Archipelago, addressing their urgent medical needs. The law allocates funds for personnel salaries and operational expenses for a five-year period, starting July 1, 1915. It mandates the conversion of a coast-guard cutter into the hospital ship, which will remain government property but operated under local governance. The act stipulates that private philanthropy must contribute at least twenty-five thousand pesos annually for the ship’s maintenance and operation. The act takes effect immediately upon passage.
- What type of law is Act No. 2513?
- An Act Making Appropriations for the Maintenance of a Hospital Ship for Use in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, and for Other Purposes (Act No. 2513) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
- When was An Act Making Appropriations for the Maintenance of a Hospital Ship for Use in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, and for Other Purposes enacted?
- An Act Making Appropriations for the Maintenance of a Hospital Ship for Use in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, and for Other Purposes (Act No. 2513) was enacted on Feb 5, 1915.
- What is the citation for An Act Making Appropriations for the Maintenance of a Hospital Ship for Use in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, and for Other Purposes?
- An Act Making Appropriations for the Maintenance of a Hospital Ship for Use in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, and for Other Purposes, Act No. 2513, Feb 5, 1915 (Philippines)
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- Act No. 2513
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- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
February 5, 1915
ACT NO. 2513
AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF A HOSPITAL SHIP FOR USE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MINDANAO AND SULU, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Whereas the inhabitants of the Sulu Archipelago, owing to their isolation, have been deprived of adequate medical and social facilities; and
Whereas there is urgent need of extending immediate relief to the two hundred thousand or more people of that district; and
Whereas the local facilities, agencies, and resources have been unable to cope with the situation: Therefore,
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:
SECTION 1. A continuing annual appropriation of the following sums is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the Insular aid of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu for a period of five years, beginning July first, nineteen hundred and fifteen:
For salaries and wages of the personnel of a hospital ship for positions to be created with the approval of the Governor-General — P21,000.00
For contingent expenses for the operation of hospital ship — 29,000.00
SECTION 2. A coast-guard cutter shall be made available to private philanthropy for conversion into a hospital ship, which vessel with added improvements, however, shall remain the property of the Insular Government, and be operated under the general direction of the governor of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, for the purposes of this Act or for such other purposes not inconsistent herewith as the said governor, with the approval of the Governor-General, may prescribe.
SECTION 3. The amounts appropriated in this Act shall become available when private philanthropy shall have converted the coast-guard cutter into a hospital ship and the conditions for the payment of the expenses and the operation of the ship are satisfactory to the Governor-General and the Director of Health, and provided that an amount of at least twenty-five thousand pesos per annum for the maintenance and operation of said hospital ship shall be furnished by private philanthropy during the term of said five years.
SECTION 4. This Act shall become effective upon its passage.
Enacted, February 5, 1915.
Cite This Law
An Act Making Appropriations for the Maintenance of a Hospital Ship for Use in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, and for Other Purposes, Act No. 2513, Feb 5, 1915 (Philippines)
An Act Making Appropriations for the Maintenance of a Hospital Ship for Use in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, and for Other Purposes, Act No. 2513 (Phil. 1915)
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