Whereas J. Thomas Hurd, having resigned his position as an employee of class eight in the Department of Engineering and Public Works, city of Manila, is entitled to leave of absence expiring July fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three; and,

Whereas such leave should be apportioned between the Province of Isabela and the city of Manila, in view of the fact that said Hurd was for a portion of his service the provincial supervisor of said province, with a compensation of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and the city of Manila having already granted him its proportionate share of said leave of absence: Now, therefore,

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

SECTION 1. The provincial board of the Province of Isabela is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate the sum of two hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents, in money of the United States, to J. Thomas Hurd, formerly provincial supervisor of said province, in payment for the proportionate part of accrued leave of absence due to said Hurd by said province, such leave being that to which be is entitled under the provisions of Act Numbered Eighty, as amended, and the computation for the appropriation being upon the basis of leave commencing May first, nineteen hundred and three, at a compensation of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. The provincial treasurer of said province is hereby authorized and directed to make payment in accordance with law to said Hurd of such amount, pursuant to appropriation duly made.

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, June 1, 1903.