[ Act No. 616, February 03, 1903 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF FORTY=TWO DOLLARS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, TO B. F. REAMY, FORMER TREASURER OF THE PROVINCE OF ABRA.

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

SECTION 1. Whereas it appears that B. F. Reamy, former treasurer of the Province of Abra, expended the sum of forty-two dollars, United States currency, in traveling from Nueva Caceres, Ambos Camarines, to Bengued, Abra, by changing station, and whereas the vouchers for this amount were lost in the mail between Bangued, Abra, and Manila, the sum of forty-two dollars, United States currency, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated in full compensation for all traveling expenses incurred by B. F. Reamy in changing station.

SEC. 2. The money herein appropriated shall be withdrawn from the Insular Treasury in local currency at the rate authorized by the Government at the time of withdrawal.

SEC. 3. 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. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, February 3, 1903.