An Act Making Certain Authorizations without Appropriation for Sundry Expenses of the Insular Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Eight, and for Other Stated Purposes

June 3, 1908

ACT NO. 1848

AN ACT MAKING CERTAIN AUTHORIZATIONS WITHOUT APPROPRIATION FOR SUNDRY EXPENSES OF THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHT, AND FOR OTHER STATED PURPOSES

Executive Bureau

SECTION 1.

The unexpended balance of funds appropriated under this head is hereby made available for the payment to the estate of the late Arthur W. Fergusson, Executive Secretary, of the money value of six months' leave of absence, said payment being authorized in partial recognition of the distinguished services rendered to this Government by the deceased during the period March thirty-first, nineteen hundred, until January thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and particularly during the organization and establishment of the civil regime; and for the portion corresponding to the Insular Government of the expenses incident to an improvement of the cipher code in use jointly by the Federal Government and the Government of these Islands.

Miscellaneous.

The Governor-General is hereby authorized to pay to Calixto Rollo and others mentioned in Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and twenty-seven, in a lump sum, the amounts still due them from the appropriation for their relief contained in said Act.

The payment of salary to Celestino Aragon, a temporary employee of the provincial government of Pangasinan from provincial funds, for services rendered prior to March fifth, nineteen hundred and eight, as approved by the provincial board of Pangasinan, is hereby authorized and confirmed, the provisions of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding.

The Governor-General is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to approve the payment of fees to justices of the peace from public funds in cases occurring prior to January first, nineteen hundred and eight, in which the justice of the peace by reason of holding other public office was not entitled to receive such fees. SHacCD

The unexpended balance of funds heretofore appropriated for the improvement of the port of Cebu is hereby made available for expenditure, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, for the improvement of the so-called "burnt-area" in the municipality of Cebu, in addition to the purposes heretofore authorized, including payment for real estate taken for public purposes and for services contemplated by section two of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and fourteen.

The penalty imposed upon W. W. Robinson for delay in furnishing piling and planks under contract with the Government (Circular Proposal No. 261) is hereby remitted, it appearing that the Government has suffered no inconvenience or loss through failure to make delivery within the specified time.

J. B. Green, provincial treasurer of Tayabas, is hereby relieved from accountability for public funds amounting to six hundred and fifteen pesos, Mexican currency, which were stolen from a safe in his office during July, nineteen hundred and six, by Anastasio Bacer, for which crime the latter was tried and convicted by the Court of First Instance.

SECTION 2. The appropriation for current expenses of the various Bureaus and Offices of the Government shall be available for the payment, to the credit of the Fidelity Bond Premium Fund, of two-thirds of the premium fixed, in pursuance of section three of Act Numbered Seventeen hundred and thirty-nine, on behalf of Insular officials and employees pertaining to the respective Bureaus and Offices. HSDCTA

SECTION 3. The Insular Treasurer is hereby authorized to invest, with the approval of the Governor-General, in interest-bearing bonds secured by first mortgages upon improved real estate in the city of Manila, moneys pertaining to the sinking funds created for the payment of bonds of the Insular Government upon maturity.

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

ENACTED, June 3, 1908. aCSTDc