An Act Making Certain Permanent Annual Appropriations

February 17, 1902

ACT NO. 357

AN ACT MAKING CERTAIN PERMANENT ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS

SECTION 1. There are hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes hereinafter specified, such sums as may be necessary for the same, respectively; and such appropriations shall be deemed permanent annual appropriations:

To refund moneys received as customs duties exacted or paid in excess of the amounts found due upon final liquidation, and for the refundment of customs fines, penalties, and forfeitures mitigated or remitted by competent authority.

To pay officers and employes of the customs service the amounts collected from importers for overtime service, and to pay the officers in private bonded warehouses the amounts collected from importers to cover such services.

To refund and pay back dues or taxes erroneously or illegally assessed or collected under the internal-revenue laws.

To repay to importers the excess of deposits for unascertained duties.

To refund moneys erroneously received and covered into the Treasury, including all excess amounts deposited by officers as revenue collected.

To restore to any appropriation any loss which may occur to such appropriation through a credit allowed under rule twenty-eight or rule twenty-nine of Act Numbered Ninety when such amounts are necessary to defray expenses properly incurred under appropriations so affected.

To pay, by warrant, postal money orders presented for payment after twelve months from the last day of the month in which issued, from the fund accruing on account of the deposit with the Treasurer of the Islands of amounts received from the sale of such money orders.

SECTION 2. The Auditor for the Archipelago is hereby authorized to transfer, on the books of his office, to the proper revenue or appropriation any moneys improperly or erroneously deposited to the credit of another revenue or appropriation; and the Auditor shall notify the Treasurer of the Archipelago of any transfer of revenue, and the said Treasurer shall thereupon adjust his records accordingly.

SECTION 3. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

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, February 17, 1902.