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

SECTION 1. The following sums, in Philippine pesos, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds m the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in part compensation for the service of the municipal government of the city of Manila for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, these appropriations being for the first halt of said fiscal year, unless otherwise stated The appropriations herein made, except for fixed salaries for the first half of said fiscal year, shall be available for obligations of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, unless otherwise stated:

CITY OF MANILA.

Salaries and wages, Municipal Board, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and four: One member, at four thousand five hundred dollars  per annum, and one clerk, Class A, from October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three, authorized by Act Numbered Nine hundred and thirty-six; and fees of the board of tax revision in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Five hundred and eighty-one, as amended, from September sixteenth to October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three, not to exceed two thousand six hundred and twenty-two pesos; four thousand nine hundred and two pesos.

Contingent expenses, Municipal Board, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and four: For contingent expenses, including subsistence and care of civil prisoners confined in Bilibid Prison, and other incidental expenses, eighteen thousand pesos.

Salaries and wages, Department of Engineering and Public Works, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and four: For the hire of labor in the sub-departments of street cleaning and collecting of garbage, parks, city crematories, cemeteries, transportation, water supply, street construction and bridges, rock quarries, and buildings and illumination; for the payment of salaries and wages authorized In Act Numbered Eight hundred and four; and one engineer in charge of sewer system, at four thousand five hundred dollars per annum., from September twenty-third, nineteen hundred and three; ninety-four thousand four hundred and fifty pesos.

Public Works, Department of Engineering and Public Works, city  of Manila, nineteen hundred and four: For the purchase of moans of transportation; repairs to Santolan road ; repairs to water system and purchase of miscellaneous supplies; hire of transportation for hauling materials, water system; cleaning of reservoir and care of grounds, water system; purchase of forage for animals; repairs to city bridges; purchase of coal and supplies for and repairs to launches and barges; repairs to harness, carts, wagons, and so forth trading and improvement of grounds at repair shops; repairs to markets and municipal buildings; and extension and development of rock quarry, ninety-one thousand four hundred and twenty pesos.

Contingent expenses, Department of Engineering and Public Works city of Manila, nineteen hundred and four: For contingent expenses, including hire of vehicles in Manila on official business when such transportation can not be furnished by the Insular Purchasing Agent, not to exceed one thousand seven hundred pesos; burial of pauper dead; and other incidental expenses; four thousand nine hundred pesos.

Salaries and wages, Department of Assessments and Collections, city of Manila   nineteen hundred and four: For the payment of salaries and wages authorized by Act Numbered Eight hundred and four; and for the payment of ten emergency inspectors at twenty dollars per month each, from October sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, not to exceed an aggregate of two hundred dollars; eight thousand four hundred pesos.

Tax refunds Department of Assessments and Collections  city of Manila, nineteen hundred and four: For the  refund of industrial and other taxes, refund of which has been or may duly authorized in accordance with law, seven hundred and ninety three pesos and twenty-four centavos: Provided, That refunds made in pursuance of this appropriation shall be charged in whole to city of Manila.

Contingent expenses, Department of Assessments Collections, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and four: For the hire of vehicles in Manila on official business when such Transportation can not be furnished by the Insular Purchasing Agent, seventy pesos.

Salaries and wages. Law Department,  city Manila, nineteen hundred and four:

Office of the City Attorney:

One Tagalog interpreter and translator. Class A. from September first, nineteen hundred and three, six hundred pesos.
Salaries and wages, Department of City School, city of Manila, nineteen hundred, and four:

Night schools:

Twenty-six teachers from November first, nineteen hundred and three, at one dollar and fifty cents per night, not to exceed four thousand three hundred and sixty-eight pesos.

Contingent expenses, Department of City Schools, city of Manila, nineteen hundred, and four: For contingent; expenses, including the care, purchase, and transportation of school supplies; reimburse­ment of G. A. O'Reilly, City Superintendent of Schools, for transportation on official business on July third and fourth, nineteen hundred and three, thirty-two pesos and forty centavos: transportation of teachers of special subjects, rental of pianos for use in kindergartens, from October first, nineteen hundred and three; printing and binding; and other incidental expenses; two thousand three hundred and thirty-two pesos and forty centavos.
In all, for the city of Manila, two hundred and thirty thousand two hundred and thirty-five pesos and sixty-four centavos. ;

SEC. 2. The provisions of the first paragraph of section three of Act Numbered Eight hundred and seven, providing the manner in which withdrawals of moneys appropriated under said Act shall be made, are hereby made applicable to the withdrawal of moneys appropriated under this Act.

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 27, 1903.