[ Act No. 1201, July 21, 1904 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING AN ADDITIONAL SUM OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONTINUING THE EXHIBIT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION.

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the additional sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in money of the United States, to be expended by order of the Exposition Board in the maintenance of the Philippine exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, for the purposes and under the restrictions set forth in Act Numbered Five hundred and fourteen, as amended by Act Numbered Seven hundred and sixty-five, and for the purpose of meeting the expenses provided in Act Numbered Seven hundred and sixty-five, for the general purpose of carrying on the exhibit, including the care and custody of the exhibits, and for the general expenses authorized to be incurred by virtue of Act Numbered Five hundred and fourteen, as amended: Provided, That of this appropriation of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars the sum of ninety-four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used in the payment of freight charges now due and pending. The sum hereby appropriated shall be expended by order of the Exposition Board and in accordance with existing law.

SEC. 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.

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

Enacted, July 21, 1904.