[ Act No. 2043, February 03, 1911 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF TWENTY THOUSAND PESOS FOR THE PURCHASE OF BOOKS, DOCUMENTS, AND PERIODICALS RELATIVE TO THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, FOR THE DIVISION OF FILIPINIANA OF THE PHILIPPINES LIBRARY.

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

SECTION 1. The sum of twenty thousand pesos is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of books, documents, and periodicals relative to the Philippine Islands, whether printed or manuscript, or in sets or single copies.

SEC. 2. The purchases shall be made subject to the conditions established by Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and thirty-five.

SEC. 3. The works acquired with the funds mentioned in section one shall be incorporated in the division of Filipiniana of the Philippines Library.

SEC. 4. The librarian of the Philippines Library shall, upon the purchase of such works, have the same catalogued and placed at the service of the public as soon as possible.

SEC. 5. 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 3, 1911.