Appropriating the Sum of $6,634,253.50 in Part Compensation for the Service of the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1903

January 13, 1903

ACT NO. 595

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF SIX MILLION SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE, DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, OR SO MUCH THEREOF AS MAY BE NECESSARY, IN PART COMPENSATION FOR THE SERVICE OF THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THREE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. The following sums, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in part compensation for the service of the Insular Government and of the city of Manila, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, this appropriation being for the last half of said fiscal year, unless otherwise stated. The appropriations, herein made, except for fixed salaries for the last half of said fiscal year, shall be available for obligations of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three.

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Total of appropriations for all purposes, six million six hundred and thirty-four thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifty cents, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SECTION 2. All appropriations herein made for public works such as the construction and repair of public buildings, docks, wharves, and roads, and for harbor improvements, shall be available for withdrawal and disbursement until the said public works are completed. All balances remaining unexpended when any public works so appropriated for are completed shall be returned at once to the Insular Treasury and shall not be available for withdrawal or disbursement thereafter, but shall be carried to the general revenues of the Islands.

SECTION 3. Section two of Act Numbered Five hundred and sixty-three is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following is substituted, which is also made applicable to this Act:

"SEC. 2. The appropriations herein made shall be withdrawn from the Treasury in local currency at the ratio authorized at the time of the withdrawal; and payments in local currency of all obligations of the Insular Government properly expressed in United States currency shall be at the ratio in force at the time of payment, except salaries, which shall be paid at the ratio existing on the next to the last day of the month for which they are paid; and in any case where a deficiency thereby arises in an appropriation for salaries, the appropriation of such further sums as may be necessary to meet the authorized salary payments in such branch of the Insular Government is hereby made."

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, January 13, 1903. cSEDTC