Appropriation of Funds for Hospital Treatment, Subsistence and Allowance of Violators of the Opium Law

February 5, 1915

ACT NO. 2488

AN ACT SUPPLEMENTARY TO ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY-ONE, APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND PESOS FOR THE EXPENSES OF THE HOSPITAL TREATMENT, SUBSISTENCE, TRANSPORTATION, AND ALLOWANCES OF VIOLATORS OF THE OPIUM LAW SENTENCED TO IMPRISONMENT AND MEDICAL TREATMENT IN BILIBID PRISON, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING ON DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN

SECTION 1. The sum of twenty-five thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the cost of transportation to Manila, treatment in the hospital, subsistence, clothing, bedding, tobacco, mess kits, soap, barber supplies, laundry, shoes, allowance, and transportation to their homes, of prisoners not charges of the Insular Government, convicted and sentenced to imprisonment and medical treatment in Bilibid Prison, for violation of the laws prohibiting the use of opium.

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect as of January first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and the funds hereby appropriated shall be available for reimbursement to the Bureau of Prisons of the expenses enumerated or described in section one hereof, beginning with said date.

Enacted, February 5, 1915.