An Act to Authorize a Continuing Annual and Reimbursable Appropriation to Meet the Obligations of the Insular Government Incurred by Reason of Contracts Authorized by Act Numbered Thirteen Hundred and Ten, and of Other Similar Contracts Herein Provided for
Act No. 1715, enacted on September 18, 1907, authorizes a continuing annual appropriation of 230,000 pesos from the Insular Treasury to fulfill obligations arising from contracts previously authorized under Act No. 1310 and other related contracts. This appropriation will remain effective for five years following the execution of the specified contracts, with provisions allowing the Secretary of Commerce and Police to modify or renew these contracts without the need for bids to be advertised in the United States. Additionally, any subsidies provided to contracting steamship companies must not exceed the available funds each year. The Act is designed to ensure the prompt disbursement of funds in accordance with existing laws and will take effect immediately upon passage.
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- Act No. 1715, enacted on September 18, 1907, authorizes a continuing annual appropriation of 230,000 pesos from the Insular Treasury to fulfill obligations arising from contracts previously authorized under Act No. 1310 and other related contracts. This appropriation will remain effective for five years following the execution of the specified contracts, with provisions allowing the Secretary of Commerce and Police to modify or renew these contracts without the need for bids to be advertised in the United States. Additionally, any subsidies provided to contracting steamship companies must not exceed the available funds each year. The Act is designed to ensure the prompt disbursement of funds in accordance with existing laws and will take effect immediately upon passage.
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- An Act to Authorize a Continuing Annual and Reimbursable Appropriation to Meet the Obligations of the Insular Government Incurred by Reason of Contracts Authorized by Act Numbered Thirteen Hundred and Ten, and of Other Similar Contracts Herein Provided for (Act No. 1715) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
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- An Act to Authorize a Continuing Annual and Reimbursable Appropriation to Meet the Obligations of the Insular Government Incurred by Reason of Contracts Authorized by Act Numbered Thirteen Hundred and Ten, and of Other Similar Contracts Herein Provided for (Act No. 1715) was enacted on Sep 18, 1907.
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- An Act to Authorize a Continuing Annual and Reimbursable Appropriation to Meet the Obligations of the Insular Government Incurred by Reason of Contracts Authorized by Act Numbered Thirteen Hundred and Ten, and of Other Similar Contracts Herein Provided for, Act No. 1715, Sep 18, 1907 (Philippines)
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September 18, 1907
ACT NO. 1715
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE A CONTINUING ANNUAL AND REIMBURSABLE APPROPRIATION TO MEET THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT INCURRED BY REASON OF CONTRACTS AUTHORIZED BY ACT NUMBERED THIRTEEN HUNDRED AND TEN, AND OF OTHER SIMILAR CONTRACTS HEREIN PROVIDED FOR
SECTION 1. A continuing annual appropriation of two hundred and thirty thousand pesos is hereby made, from any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying obligations of the Insular Government incurred by reason of contracts authorized by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ten, and defined by resolutions of the Philippine Commission, dated April thirtieth, May fifteenth, July eleventh, and July twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, and August fourteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, and such other contracts as are authorized by this Act: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That this appropriation shall terminate at the expiration of five years after the execution of the contract authorized and executed July twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six, under Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ten. AaCTcI
SECTION 2. The Secretary of Commerce and Police is hereby authorized to modify or renew the aforesaid contracts when necessary, or to enter into new contracts at any time on the general terms and conditions set forth in section one of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ten: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That —
(a) Bids therefor need not be advertised for in the United States;
(b) Such contracts shall be approved by the Governor-General in place of the Philippine Commission;
(c) No contracts shall be entered into or renewed for a period extending beyond July twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eleven.
Such contracts may contain a provision for the payment of subsidies from this appropriation to the contracting steamship companies: PROVIDED HOWEVER, That the total subsidy payments called for by the terms of the contracts entered into under the authority of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ten and the resolutions mentioned in the first section of this Act, and the contracts authorized by this section, shall in no year exceed the funds available under the provisions of this Act.
SECTION 3. This appropriation shall be disbursed in accordance with the general provisions of law Governing the disbursement of Insular funds and Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ten, and shall be reimbursable appropriation to the credit of which shall be deposited all fines or payments to be made by the contractors under the terms and conditions of the contracts; and the unexpended balance in any year shall be credited to the appropriation for the following year.
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, September 18, 1907.
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An Act to Authorize a Continuing Annual and Reimbursable Appropriation to Meet the Obligations of the Insular Government Incurred by Reason of Contracts Authorized by Act Numbered Thirteen Hundred and Ten, and of Other Similar Contracts Herein Provided for, Act No. 1715, Sep 18, 1907 (Philippines)
An Act to Authorize a Continuing Annual and Reimbursable Appropriation to Meet the Obligations of the Insular Government Incurred by Reason of Contracts Authorized by Act Numbered Thirteen Hundred and Ten, and of Other Similar Contracts Herein Provided for, Act No. 1715 (Phil. 1907)
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