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

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not appropriated for other purposes, in compensation of the service of the Philippine Government for the fiscal year ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twenty-four, unless otherwise stated.

See Printed Copy Volume 19 Public Laws Page 6 to 143 

SEC. 2. At the request of any Department head, the  Emergency Board may authorize the transfer of any unexpended balance of the appropriations for "salaries and wages" to any item under "miscellaneous expenses" of the same Bureau or Office, if the interests of the public service so require it, any provision of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding. 

SEC. 3. Any provision of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding, no person shall be employed under contract by the Insular Government unless this be authorized by an appropriation in this Act. 

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and twenty-four. 

Approved, February 12, 1924, with the exception of the appropriations for the Executive, the Treasury Bureau, and the Bureau of Commerce and Industry, which have been vetoed in their entirety.