[ Act No. 174, July 17, 1901 ]

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE DEPOSIT IN THE INSULAR TREASURY, AND AN ACCOUNTING FOR THE SAME TO THE AUDITOR, OF ALL REVENUES DERIVED FROM THE SALES OF PRODUCTS GROWN, OR ARTICLES FABRICATED BY OFFICERS IN CHARGE OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, OR GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS RECEIVING SUPPORT FROM INSULAR REVENUES.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. Hereafter, and from July first, nineteen hundred and one, all officers in charge of Government, property or of Government institutions receiving support from insular revenues and from which revenues are derived from sale of products grown or articles fabricated, or otherwise, shall render to the Auditor for the Archipelago, in accordance with Rule two of Act Numbered Ninety, accounts-current and vouchers covering all of such transactions, in the form and manner prescribed by the Auditor, and deposit such receipts of revenue in full, without any deduction, with the Treasurer of the Islands, as provided by Rules twenty-one and fifty-three of Act Numbered Ninety.SEC. 2. All expenditures made in behalf of such Government Property or institutions, including cost of operating the same, and producing articles for sale, shall be pursuant to appropriations made by the Philippine Commission, as provided by Rules twenty-five, twenty-six, fifty-four, and fifty-five of Act Numbered Ninety.SEC. 3. The provisions of this Act shall apply specifically to Bilibid Prison and all other prisons supported by the Insular Government, the Refrigerating and Cold Storage Plant at Manila, the Government farm at San Ramon, Zamboanga, as well as to all other institutions or offices coming within the purview of section one of this Act.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," pased September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.Enacted, July 17, 1901.

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