[ Act No. 2028, February 02, 1911 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF TWO THOUSAND PESOS FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE THIRD CENTENARY OF THE INTRODUCTION OF PRINTING INTO THE PHILIPPINES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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

SECTION 1. The sum of two thousand pesos, or so much thereof a6 may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the celebration of the third centenary of the introduction of printing into the Philippines. The funds so appropriated shall be withdrawn from the Insular Treasury upon warrant and disbursed for any expenses of the said centenary celebration by the committee hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. A committee, to be composed of Jaime C. de Veyra, Epifanio de los Santos, Macario Adriatico, Pedro Ramirez, Manuel Artigas, Jose M. Eomero Salas, and Hermenegildo Cruz, is hereby created to arrange for the expenditure of the funds herein appropriated and to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SEC. 3. The celebration of the third centenary of printing is fixed for the nineteenth day of June of nineteen hundred and eleven.

SEC. 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the same shall take effect on its passage, in accordance with section one of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and forty-five of the Philippine Legislature.

Enacted, February 2, 1911.