[ Act No. 755, May 20, 1903 ]

AN ACT EMPOWERING THE PROVINCIAL BOARD OF THE PROVINCE OF ALBAY TO MAKE APPROPRIATION FOR PROPORTIONATE PART OF ACCRUED LEAVE OF ABSENCE EARNED BY LADISLAUS SZILY, LATE PROVINCIAL SUPERVISOR OF SAID PROVINCE, AND APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX DOLLARS AND FIFTEEN CENTS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR PROPORTIONATE PART OF SUCH ACCRUED LEAVE DUE BY THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PORT OF MANILA.

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

SECTION 1. Whereas Ladislaus Szily, late provincial supervisor of the Province of Albay, having resigned his position, is entitled to leave of absence expiring June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and three, and whereas such leave should be apportioned between the Office of the Improvement of the Port of Manila and the Province of Albay, in view of the fact that said Szily was for a portion of his service an employee of the Improvement of the Port of Manila:

The provincial board of the Province of Albay is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate the sum of tour hundred and fourteen dollars and ninety-six cents, in money of the United States, to Ladislaus Szily, late provincial supervisor of said province, in payment for the proportionate part of accrued leave of absence due to said Szily by said province, such leave being that to which he is entitled under the provisions of Act Numbered Eighty, as amended, and the computation for the appropriation being upon the basis of leave commencing March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, at a compensation of two thousand dollars per annum. The provincial treasurer of said province is authorized and directed to make payment in accordance with law to said Szily of such amount, pursuant to appropriation duly made.

SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and forty-six dollars and fifteen cents, in money of the United States, or its equivalent in local currency at the authorized rate of exchange at the date of payment, for payment to Ladislaus Szily of a proportionate part of allowance in lieu of accrued leave of absence due him by the Improvement of the Port of Manila under the provisions of Act Numbered Eighty, as amended, the computation for such appropriation being upon the basis of leave commencing March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and three, at a compensation of two thousand dollars per annum. The Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago is directed to issue his certificate for settlement warrant for this amount, pursuant to this appropriation.

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, May 20, 1903.