[ Act No. 437, July 31, 1902 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR DOLLARS AND FORTY-FIVE CENTS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, OR SO MUCH THEREOF AS MAY BE NECESSARY, FOR CERTAIN EXPENSES OF THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THREE, AND OTHER DESIGNATED PERIODS.

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

SECTION 1. The following sums, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes and objects herein named, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and other designated periods:

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

BOARD OF HEALTH FOR THE PHILIPPINES.

Installation of the pail system in the city of Manila, Board of Health for the Philippines, nineteen hundred and three: For the purchase of trucks, commodes, and other incidental expenses in connection with the installation of the pail system, thirteen thousand dollars.

The difference between the amount expended for the installation of the pail system in the city of Manila and the amount collected therefor from property owners and deposited in the Insular Treasury, shall be reimbursed to the Insular Government by the city of Manila, and when such reimbursement is fully made all property, such as launches, barges, tracks, commodes, and so forth, purchased in carrying out the provisions of the appropriation, shall revert to and become the property of the city of Manila.

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND JUSTICE.

BUREAU OF THE INSULAR COLD STORAGE AND ICE PLANT.

Salaries and wages, Bureau of the Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant, nineteen hundred and three: For salaries and wages for the first quarter of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, as follows:

Water-transportation department:

One overseer, class eight; one assistant overseer, Class A; one engineer, Class F; one patron, Class H; one assistant engineer, Class H; six patrons, Class I; one boatswain, at two hundred and sixteen dollars per annum; two firemen, at two hundred and sixteen dollars per annum each; six timoneros, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars per annum each; sixteen sailors, at one hundred and eighty dollars per annum each; twenty-four sailors, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars per annum each, three thousand live hundred and three dollars.

The Superintendent of the Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant is hereby authorized, whenever it shall be found impracticable to obtain a qualified electrician to fill the position of electrician, class seven, in the engineering, manufacturing, and cold-storage department, authorized in Act Numbered Four hundred and thirty, to employ, in lieu of the electrician, class seven, one electrician, Class D, and one electrician, Class E.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

BUREAU OF PUBLIC PRINTING.

Contingent expenses, Bureau of Public Printing, nineteen hundred and three: For expenses in grading and laying out the grounds about the Public Printing .Building, including filling and sodding and the hire of laborers in the above work, one thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars and twenty cents.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The following sum, or so much thereof as may be found to be due on settlement of the claim by the Auditor, is hereby appropriated for the purpose specified:

For reimbursement to Captain John T. Knight, United States Army, for a payment for coal purchased in May, nineteen hundred, and erroneously paid by him out of United States funds, four thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars and twenty-five cents.

Total of appropriations for all purposes, twenty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty-five cents, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SEC. 2. The appropriations herein made shall be withdrawn from the Treasury in local currency at the rate authorized at the time of such withdrawal, and so disbursed, except the amount appropriated under the head of miscellaneous expenses for reimbursement to Captain John T. Knight, United States Army, which shall be disbursed in United States currency.

SEC. 3. The General Superintendent of Public Instruction is hereby authorized to expend, out of the funds appropriated for "Contingent expenses, Bureau of Public instruction, nineteen hundred and three," the sum of one thousand dollars, local currency, for the purpose of establishing and equipping in Bontoc, Province of Lepanto-Bontoc, a school for the instruction of Igorrotes in agricultural and other manual work.

The provincial board of the Province of Surigao is hereby authorized to direct the provincial treasurer of that province to pay compensation from provincial funds to Michael Luery, a public school-teacher, for services he has rendered as interpreter for that province from September first, nineteen hundred and one, to date, and hereafter as his services may be required from time to time by the province, at the rate of twenty-five dollars, United States currency or its equivalent in local currency, per month, and the said Michael Luery is hereby authorized to accept such compensation from the province in addition to the salary he receives from the Insular Government as a public school-teacher: Provided, That his services as interpreter shall not in any way interfere with his work as a public school-teacher, and that the permission given him to act in this capacity may be at any time revoked by the General Superintendent of Public instruction.

The funds appropriated in Act Numbered Four hundred and fifteen, under the head of "Contingent expenses, Chief Quartermaster, Division of the Philippines, nineteen hundred and two," are hereby made available for expenditure for the same purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three.

SEC. 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this appropriation 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, July 31, 1902.