Appropriation of Fund Derived from Sale of Bonds for Purchase of Friar Lands

October 4, 1904

ACT NO. 1238

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE FUNDS DERIVED FROM THE SALE OF THE BONDS AUTHORIZED BY ACT NUMBERED ONE THOUSAND AND THIRTY-FOUR, FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE SO-CALLED FRIAR LANDS, AND FOR THE PAYMENT OF EXPENSES INCIDENTAL THERETO

SECTION 1. All funds derived from the sale of the bonds issued by the Secretary of War in the name and on behalf of the Government of the Philippine Islands, under the authority contained in section one of Act Numbered One thousand and thirty-four, are hereby appropriated for the purposes set forth in said Act, and for the payment of all expenses incidental to the purchase and transfer of the so-called friar lands, including the cost of resurveys, and any attorney's fees in the excess of the amount appropriated by Act Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty. The funds appropriated by this Act shall be disbursed by and under the direction of the Civil Governor, upon resolutions of the Philippine Commission. cdta

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, October 4, 1904