[ Act No. 406, May 24, 1902 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED AND SIX THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND TWELVE DOLLARS AND SEVENTY-SIX CENTS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, OR SO MUCH THEREOF AS MAY HE NECESSARY, FOR CERTAIN EXPENSES OF THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT, AND OF THE CITY OF MANILA, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWO.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States 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 hereinafter named, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two: For miscellaneous expenses incurred for the benefit of the Government of the Philippine Islands in the United States, fifty thousand dollars.

UNITED STATES PHILIPPINE COMMISSION.

Expenses of civil employees not otherwise provided for, United States Philippine Commission, nineteen hundred and two: For salaries of employees appointed, in the United States to the Philippine civil service while traveling from the United States to the Philippine Islands, for the actual and necessary traveling expenses and subsistence of such employees while en route, for salaries of provincial officers transferred from one province to another during the time necessarily occupied in making the transfer as provided in Act Numbered Three hundred and twenty, section one (a), three thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF PHILIPPINES CONSTABULARY.

Commissary stores, Bureau of Philippine Constabulary, nineteen hundred and two: For the purchase and transportation of commissary stores, forty-two thousand five hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-two cents.

CITY OF MANILA.

Salaries and wages, Department of Police, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and two: For salaries of special policemen during the cholera epidemic, ten thousand six hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty-four cents.

Total of appropriations for all purposes, one hundred and six thousand two hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-six cents, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necesary.

SEC. 2. The sum of forty-four thousand and fifty-two dollars and eighty-seven cents, being the equivalent of one hundred thousand dollars, local currency, at the ratio of two dollars and twenty-seven cents, local currency, for one dollar in money of the United States, of the reimbursable appropriation for the Insular Purchasing Agent appropriated in Act Numbered Two hundred and sixty-four, is hereby made available for disbursement in United States currency.

SEC. 3. All funds appropriated by this Act shall be disbursed in local currency on the basis of two dollars and twenty-seven cents, local currency, for one dollar in money of the United States, except the sum appropriated for miscellaneous expenses incurred for the benefit of the Government of the Philippine Islands in the United States, and the amount appropriated for the Bureau of Philippines Constabulary, which shall be disbursed in money of the United States.

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, May 24, 1902.