[ Act No. 2933, December 15, 1920 ]

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR A STANDING APPROPRIATION OF ONE MILLION PESOS PER ANNUM FOR THE INDEPENDENCE COMMISSION.

Be it enacted by the Senate and Home of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. A standing appropriation of one million pesos per annum is hereby made out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated to defray the expenses of the Independence Commission, including publicity and all other expenses in connection with the performance of its duties.  This credit shall be considered as included in the annual appropriation for the Senate and the House of Representatives, at the rate of five hundred thousand pesos for each House, although the appropriation acts hereafter approved may not make any specific appropriation for said purpose: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be set up on the books of the Insular Auditor until it shall be necessary to make the payment or payments authorized by this Act.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-one.

Approved, December 15, 1920.