[ Acts No. 1831, May 21, 1908 ]

AN ACT DECLARING THE FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR CURRENT EXPENSES OF THE ASSEMBLY AVAILABLE FOR CERTAIN EXPENSES OF THE ASSEMBLY THAT ARE NOT SPECIFIED IN THE CURRENT APPROPRIATION BILL.

By authority of the United States, be, it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:

SECTION 1.  Any unexpended funds heretofore appropriated for made available current expenses of the Philippine Assembly are hereby made available for the following purposes, namely: For the payment of i traveling expenses or per diems, or fractional parts thereof, of members, officers, and employees of the Assembly when absent from Manila on official business since October sixteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, in accordance with, and at the rate fixed by section two of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and seventy-nine; the payment of additional compensation io officers and employees in' other branches of the Government who, at the request of the Assembly, or the Speaker, and with the consent of their chief, may have rendered or shall render services to the Assembly in addition ¦to their regular duties; and for the payment of a per diem of thirty pesos to each member of the Committee on Appropriations and to the Secretary of the Assembly for each day on which said committee was in session between the fifth and twenty-fifth days of April, nineteen hundred and eight.

SEC. 2. The payments herein contemplated are hereby authorized and directed.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, May 21, 1908.