[ Act No. 923, October 03, 1903 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF FOUR THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS, UNITED STATES CURRENCY, OR SO MUCH THEREOF AS MAY BE NECESSARY, FOR THE REPAIR OF QUARTERMASTER'S LAUNCH "PHILADELPHIA," ASSIGNED TO THE FORESTRY BUREAU, AND FOR THE MAINTENANCE THEREOF DURING THE PRESENT HALF OF THE FISCAL YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FOUR.

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 sum of four thousand six hundred and fifty dollars in United States currency, or its equivalent in Philippine currency in the discretion of the Insular Treasurer, for the repair of the quartermaster's launch Philadelphia, assigned to the Forestry Bureau, and for the maintenance of said launch during the present half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, said sum to be expended as follows:

Repair and maintenance of quartermaster's launch Philadelphia, nineteen hundred and four: For general repairs, including docking and dock rental, two thousand dollars; for fuel and other supplies, one thousand five hundred dollars; for wages from September first of one master at ninety dollars per month, one quartermaster at twelve dollars and fifty cents per month, four sailors at ten dollars per month each, one chief engineer at forty dollars per month, one assistant engineer at thirty dollars per month, two firemen at eleven dollars per month each, and one cook at fifteen dollars per month, nine hundred dollars; for an allowance for subsistence of fifty cents per day to the master, and fifteen cents per day to each of the other officers and members of the crew, two hundred and fifty dollars.

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, October 3, 1903.