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

SECTION 1. The following sums, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the provincial government of Mindoro, this appropriation being for the first half of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, unless otherwise stated:

For salaries and wages and for general provincial expenses, including maintenance of and repairs to provincial steam launch, purchase of office supplies and stationery, blanks and blank books, sheriff's fees, subsistence of prisoners, transportation of officers and .supplies, maintenance and operation of telephone system, and other incidental expenses during the first half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, eight thousand seven hundred and eighty-two dollars.

For payment of indebtedness for provincial and municipal supplies furnished by the Insular Purchasing Agent during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, nine thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars.

Total of appropriation for all purposes, eighteen thousand six hundred and ninety-nine dollars, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SEC. 2. The provincial supervisor-treasurer is authorized, in the discharge of the duty imposed by law upon him of collecting taxes in the province, to appoint municipal or township treasurers of the various municipalities or townships of the province as deputies and to pay them not exceeding five per centum of the collections made by them as compensation for their work as such deputies. The provincial supervisor-treasurer is authorized to exact separate bonds, to be approved by the provincial board, from such municipal or township treasurers for the faithful accounting by them of all moneys coming into their hands by virtue of this section.

SEC. 3. No moneys appropriated in this Act are available for withdrawal in other than United States currency or Philippines currency, at the option of the Insular Treasurer. In any case where it appears to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Finance and Justice that any obligation of the provincial government of Mindoro, entered into by contract or otherwise, is legally payable only in Mexican or Spanish-Filipino currency, and the appropriation available therefor is in United States currency or Philippines currency, the Secretary of Finance and Justice may authorize the Insular Treasurer to transfer to the provincial supervisor-treasurer of Mindoro the amount of Mexican or Spanish-Filipino currency required for said payment, in exchange for the equivalent amount in United States currency or Philippines currency at the authorized rate of exchange at the time such exchange is made. Notice of such exchange, with the authority therefor, shall be given forthwith to the Auditor by the Insular Treasurer and the provincial supervisor-treasurer of Mindoro.

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, August 4, 1903.