[ Act No. 239, September 25, 1901 ]
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT, OUT OF THE INSULAR TREASURY, OF TRAVELING EXPENSES OF DULY APPOINTED TEACHERS AND OTHERS TO THEIR PLACES OF DUTY IN THE ISLANDS.
By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. Teachers in the Department of Public Instruction and other persons appointed to office under the insular or a provincial government, who reach Manila from the United States, shall have their traveling expenses paid out of the Insular Treasury from Manila to the point in the Islands where their duties are to be performed. In cases where such teachers and other persons appointed have been duly authorized to bring their families at public expense from the United States to Manila, the expenses allowed under this Act shall include the traveling expenses not only of such teachers and other persons but of their respective families.
SEC. 2. In case of persons stationed or residing in the Archipelago who are appointed to office under the Insular or a provincial government, the duties of which are to be discharged in some other part of the Islands, the reasonable traveling expenses of such persons from their former station or residence in the Islands to the place in which their future duties are to be performed shall be paid out of the Insular Treasury.
SEC. 3. Payments of actual and necessary traveling expenses of the character described in the preceding sections Unit have been made by direction of the head of any Bureau, Department, or the Civil Governor, prior to the passage of this Act, are hereby authorized.
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, September 25, 1901.
SECTION 1. Teachers in the Department of Public Instruction and other persons appointed to office under the insular or a provincial government, who reach Manila from the United States, shall have their traveling expenses paid out of the Insular Treasury from Manila to the point in the Islands where their duties are to be performed. In cases where such teachers and other persons appointed have been duly authorized to bring their families at public expense from the United States to Manila, the expenses allowed under this Act shall include the traveling expenses not only of such teachers and other persons but of their respective families.
SEC. 2. In case of persons stationed or residing in the Archipelago who are appointed to office under the Insular or a provincial government, the duties of which are to be discharged in some other part of the Islands, the reasonable traveling expenses of such persons from their former station or residence in the Islands to the place in which their future duties are to be performed shall be paid out of the Insular Treasury.
SEC. 3. Payments of actual and necessary traveling expenses of the character described in the preceding sections Unit have been made by direction of the head of any Bureau, Department, or the Civil Governor, prior to the passage of this Act, are hereby authorized.
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, September 25, 1901.