[ Act No. 832, August 12, 1903 ]

AN ACT ALLOWING TO E. B. BRYAN FIFTY-FOUR DAYS' LEAVE OF ABSENCE AND APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF ONE THOUSAND AND FIFTY DOLLARS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, TO BE PAID TO SAID E. B. BRYAN IN LIEU OF THE LEAVE SO ALLOWED IN ORDER THAT HIS SUCCESSOR AS GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION MAY BE APPOINTED WITHOUT UNNECESSARY DELAY.

Whereas the Civil Governor has accepted the resignation of E. B. Bryan, as General Superintendent of Education, to take effect on August thirteenth, nineteen hundred and three; and

Whereas the said E. B. Bryan has rendered faithful, efficient, and continuous service to the Government since the first day of July, nineteen hundred and one, without vacation during that period; and

Whereas the public good demands the appointment of a successor to the said E. B. Bryan as soon as possible after his resignation takes effect instead of at the termination of any leave which may be allowed to him: Now, therefore,

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

SECTION 1. The sum of one thousand and fifty dollars, in money of the United States, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the said E. B. Bryan in lieu of fifty-four days' leave of absence hereby allowed to him for the full period of his service with the Philippine Government as computed under Act Numbered Eighty.

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, August 12, 1903.