An Act Returning the Sum of Eight Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty-Four Dollars and Twelve Cents, Local Currency, to Bernardino Monreal, of Sorsogon
Act No. 620, enacted on February 6, 1903, mandates the return of $8,264.12 in local currency to Bernardino Monreal of Sorsogon. The funds were seized in January 1901 by Colonel Walter Howe, who alleged they were insurgent funds due to Monreal's supposed association with insurgents. However, it was established that the funds were Monreal's personal property. The Act appropriates the seized amount from the Insular Treasury and emphasizes the need for expedited passage for public good, taking effect immediately upon enactment.
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- Act No. 620
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- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
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February 6, 1903
ACT NO. 620
AN ACT RETURNING THE SUM OF EIGHT THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR DOLLARS AND TWELVE CENTS, LOCAL CURRENCY, TO BERNARDINO MONREAL, OF SORSOGON
SECTION 1. Whereas the sum of eight thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars and twelve cents, local currency, belonging to Bernardino Monreal, was seized in January, nineteen hundred and one, by Colonel Walter Howe, Forty-seventh Infantry, United States Volunteers, on the ground that said Bernardino Monreal was a collector for the insurgents, and that these were insurgent funds; and
Whereas it is clearly established that these funds were the personal property of Bernardino Monreal:
The sum of eight thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars and twelve cents, local currency, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to Bernardino Monreal, of Sorsogon, Sorsogon, as reimbursement for the same amount of money seized from him as hereinbefore stated.
SECTION 2. 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 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
ENACTED, February 6, 1903.
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An Act Returning the Sum of Eight Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty-Four Dollars and Twelve Cents, Local Currency, to Bernardino Monreal, of Sorsogon, Act No. 620, Feb 6, 1903 (Philippines)
An Act Returning the Sum of Eight Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty-Four Dollars and Twelve Cents, Local Currency, to Bernardino Monreal, of Sorsogon, Act No. 620 (Phil. 1903)
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