[ Act No. 112, March 30, 1901 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING ONE-FOURTH OF THE INTERNAL-REVENUE COLLECTIONS MADE IN THE PROVINCES OF PAMPANGA, PANGASINAN, TARLAC, BULACAN, BATAAN, TAYABAS, ROMBLON, AND MASBATE AFTER JANUARY FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ONE, DOWN TO AND INCLUDING THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ONE, TO BE PAID TO THE RESPECTIVE TREASURERS OF SAID PROVINCES IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION NINE OF THE GENERAL PROVINCIAL ACT.

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from the Insular Treasury, out of funds not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the provincial treasurers of the Provinces of Pampanga, Pangasinan, Tarlac, Bulacan, Bataan, Tayabas, Romblon, and Masbate, respectively, one-fourth of the total amount of internal-revenue collections made in each of said provinces from and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and one, down to and including March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and one, to comply with the requirements of section nine of the General Provincial Act. The amount so to be paid shall be determined by the Collector of Internal Revenue for the Islands, and shall be certified by him to the Military Governor and the Auditor of the Archipelago, and warrants shall be drawn in accordance with the law for the amounts so certified.

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, March 30, 1901.