[ Act No. 735, April 08, 1903 ]

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE SUPERINTENDENT OF GOVERNMENT LABORATORIES TO SELL CERTAIN PUBLIC ANIMALS WHEN THEY ARE NO LONGER REQUIRED FOR USE IN THE SERUM LABORATORY.

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

SECTION 1. The Superintendent of Government Laboratories is hereby authorized to sell at public or private sale to butchers for food purposes, or to others, animals originally purchased for use in connection with the operation of the Serum Laboratory, when the said animals are no longer adapted to the use of the said Laboratory, but are fit for food purposes. Such sales may be made on the best terms obtainable, the provisions of section fourteen of Act Numbered Two hundred and fifteen relative to the sale of public animals to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 2. The sums realized from such sales shall be deposited in the Insular Treasury as "miscellaneous receipts," and an account thereof rendered to the Auditor, the same to be accompanied by a list or abstract showing the number of animals sold, the name of each purchaser, and the price received for each animal.

SEC. 3. 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, April 8, 1903.