Whereas during the month of July, nineteen hundred, Captain Merrill E. Webb, Thirtieth Regiment, United States Volunteer Infantry, acting under orders from competent authority, sold a quantity of copra belonging to the municipality of Atimonan, in the present Province of Tayabas, and received therefor the sum of two thousand four hundred and forty-six pesos. Mexican currency, with the understanding that the money so received should be temporarily deposited in the insular Treasury at Manila, to be later returned and used by the municipality of Atimonan in the construction of a municipal school building; and

Whereas the said money was so deposited, and the municipal council of the present municipality of Atimonan has requested that the money be returned, and the said request has been approved by the provincial board of the Province of Tayabas: Now, therefore,

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

SECTION 1. For the purpose of reimbursing the municipality of Atimonan for the above-stated sum there is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand four hundred and forty-six pesos, Mexican currency, to be used by said municipality in the construction of a municipal school building, as hereinbefore specified, and for no other purpose.

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, September 10, 1903.