[ Act No. 1259, November 12, 1904 ]
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF CERTAIN SUMS OF MONEY TO THE PRESENT SULTAN OF SULU AND HIS PRINCIPAL ADVISERS, AND MAKING PERMANENT APPROPRIATION THEREFOR.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out, of any moneys in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to make the following annual payments, which shall continue during the pleasure of the Commission, from and after March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four:
To the present Sultan of Sulu, six thousand pesos. Philippine currency; to Hadji Butu, one thousand eight hundred pesos; to Hadji Taib, nine hundred pesos; to Hadji Mahomet, nine hundred pesos; to Hadji Abdallah, nine hundred pesos to Hadji Bandahalla, one thousand two hundred pesos; to Datio Toakanain, nine hundred pesos and to Datto Kalbi, nine hundred pesos.
SEC. 2. Payment at the rate prescribed in section one hereof shall be made to each of the persons therein mentioned from and after March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, the date upon which, payments under the so-called Bates Treaty were stopped, to and including November thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, upon the first day of December, nineteen hundred and four, and monthly thereafter on the last day of each month. Payment of the sums herein specified shall be made by the treasurer of the Moro Province, and the money heroin appropriated shall he withdrawn from the Insular Treasury upon proper requisition by him and shall be accounted for by him as provided by law.
SEC. 3. 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.
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, November 12, 1904.
SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out, of any moneys in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to make the following annual payments, which shall continue during the pleasure of the Commission, from and after March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four:
To the present Sultan of Sulu, six thousand pesos. Philippine currency; to Hadji Butu, one thousand eight hundred pesos; to Hadji Taib, nine hundred pesos; to Hadji Mahomet, nine hundred pesos; to Hadji Abdallah, nine hundred pesos to Hadji Bandahalla, one thousand two hundred pesos; to Datio Toakanain, nine hundred pesos and to Datto Kalbi, nine hundred pesos.
SEC. 2. Payment at the rate prescribed in section one hereof shall be made to each of the persons therein mentioned from and after March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, the date upon which, payments under the so-called Bates Treaty were stopped, to and including November thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, upon the first day of December, nineteen hundred and four, and monthly thereafter on the last day of each month. Payment of the sums herein specified shall be made by the treasurer of the Moro Province, and the money heroin appropriated shall he withdrawn from the Insular Treasury upon proper requisition by him and shall be accounted for by him as provided by law.
SEC. 3. 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.
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, November 12, 1904.