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

SECTION 1. Whereas Honorato Quisumbing, president of the town of Los Baños, Province of Laguna, was murdered because of his loyalty to the United States and assistance to the military authorities, and his untimely death leaves his wife and seven small children in needy circumstances:

The sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, in local currency is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Insular Treasury no otherwise appropriated, to be paid, in the discretion of the Civil Governor, either to the widow of Honorato Quisumbing or to the commanding officer of the district, to be held and expended by him for her benefit.

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, February 3, 1902.