Whereas Captain George D. Guyer, Sixteenth United States Infantry, while acting as a disbursing officer for the Government of the Philippine Islands, was accountable for the sum of two thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-seven cents, United States currency, which sum was stolen at Ilagan, Province of Isabela, on June twenty-first, nineteen hundred, and it appears from the evidence in the case that the loss occurred without fault on the part of said Captain Guyer: Therefore,

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

SECTION 1. Pursuant to the provisions of rule twenty-eight of Act Numbered Ninety, the Auditor for the Philippine Islands is hereby authorized to credit the account of Captain George D. Guyer, Sixteenth United States Infantry, by the sum of two thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-seven cents, United States currency, on account of said loss by theft.

SEC. 2. 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. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, October 27, 1903.