[ Act No. 460, September 15, 1902 ]
AN ACT APPROPRIATING TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, OR SO MUCH THEREOF AS MAY BE NECESSARY, TO ENABLE THE AUDITOR FOR THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO TO PREPARE FOR THE SECRETARY OF WAR FOR TRANSMITTAL TO CONGRESS AT ITS ENSUING REGULAR SESSION SPECIAL DETAILED REPORTS OF THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ARCHIPELAGO FOR THE FISCAL YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TWO.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten thousand dollars, in money of the United States, or so much thereof united as may be necessary, for the employment of such extra service in the office of the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago as may be required to enable the Auditor to submit to the Secretary of War, for transmittal to Congress during its ensuing regular session, audited detailed statements of the receipts and disbursements of the Government of the Archipelago, and the provincial governments thereunder, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two.
SECTION 2. For the purpose of executing this work within the time required the Auditor is hereby authorized to expend the sum appropriated, in whole or in part, for the payment of such overtime services or work in excess of the number of hours of service now required by law as may be rendered by the regular employees of his Bureau or by the employees of other offices or Bureaus, at such rate of compensation as may seem to him equitable and proper, the provisions of Act Numbered One hundred and forty-eight to the contrary notwithstanding. The Auditor is further authorized to employ such additional emergency clerks as may be required to complete said work, such clerks to be employed by selection from the eligible lists of the Civil Service Board if a sufficient number of competent persons is available. If a sufficient number is not available such clerks may be selected by any test of fitness which may be prescribed by the Auditor and approved by the Civil Service Board.
SEC. 3. The appropriation herein made shall be withdrawn from the Insular Treasury in local currency at the rate authorized at the time of such withdrawal, and so disbursed.
SEC. 4. 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, September 15, 1902.
SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten thousand dollars, in money of the United States, or so much thereof united as may be necessary, for the employment of such extra service in the office of the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago as may be required to enable the Auditor to submit to the Secretary of War, for transmittal to Congress during its ensuing regular session, audited detailed statements of the receipts and disbursements of the Government of the Archipelago, and the provincial governments thereunder, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two.
SECTION 2. For the purpose of executing this work within the time required the Auditor is hereby authorized to expend the sum appropriated, in whole or in part, for the payment of such overtime services or work in excess of the number of hours of service now required by law as may be rendered by the regular employees of his Bureau or by the employees of other offices or Bureaus, at such rate of compensation as may seem to him equitable and proper, the provisions of Act Numbered One hundred and forty-eight to the contrary notwithstanding. The Auditor is further authorized to employ such additional emergency clerks as may be required to complete said work, such clerks to be employed by selection from the eligible lists of the Civil Service Board if a sufficient number of competent persons is available. If a sufficient number is not available such clerks may be selected by any test of fitness which may be prescribed by the Auditor and approved by the Civil Service Board.
SEC. 3. The appropriation herein made shall be withdrawn from the Insular Treasury in local currency at the rate authorized at the time of such withdrawal, and so disbursed.
SEC. 4. 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, September 15, 1902.