[ Act No. 60, December 19, 1900 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN DOLLARS AND EIGHTY-ONE CENTS, MEXICAN MONEY, AND TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR DOLLARS AND FIFTY-FOUR CENTS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, TO PAY EXPENSES INCURRED AND SALARIES EARNED, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT FOR DECEMBER.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-one cents, in Mexican money, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the Collector of Internal Revenue of the Islands for a refund of surtaxes erroneously collected in the Third District, Department of Southern Luzon.SEC. 2. The following sums in money of the United States are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay expenses incurred and salaries earned, not provided for in the General Appropriation Act for December, and for the purposes and objects hereinafter specified, viz:For the Chief Quartermaster for the Division of the Philippines:For the construction of additional godowns for the Custom-House on ground space omitted in the original contract, four thousand one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixty-one cents; for amount estimated to complete refrigerating and ice plant at Manila, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand three hundred and forty-six dollars and sixty-four cents.Total for the Chief Quartermaster for the Division of the Philippines, one hundred and eighty-two thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-five cents.For the Disbursing Quartermaster of Civil Bureaus:For the purchase of assorted redwood lumber, hereby authorized, to be brought from the United States for the use of the Civil Department of the Philippine Government for the year nineteen hundred and one, twelve thousand dollars; for salary of additional clerk at one hundred dollars per month, hereby authorized, one hundred dollars.Total for the Disbursing Quartermaster of Civil Bureaus, twelve thousand and one hundred dollars.For the office of the Provost-Marshal-General and departments reporting to him:For the Department of City Public Works:For the completion of the Divisoria Market, in accordance with the original plans of the City Engineer, thirty-two thousand and three hundred dollars.For the Department of Police:For the employment of two additional interpreters at fifty dollars per month each, hereby authorized, one hundred dollars.Total for the office of the Provost-Marshal-General and Departments reporting to him, thirty-two thousand and four hundred dollars.For the Collector of Customs of the Islands and of the chief port:For the purchase of two steam launches, hereby authorized, twenty thousand dollars; for payment of secret service force of the customs office for the month of December, five hundred dollars.Total for the Collector of Customs of the Islands and of the chief port, twenty thousand and five hundred dollars.For the Chief Commissary, Division of the Philippines:For reimbursement to Subsistence Department for the subsistence of native convicts, during the months of September, October, and November, nineteen hundred, one thousand four hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy-nine cents.For the Forestry Bureau:For the printing of two thousand copies of the work on native woods of the Philippine Islands, hereby authorized, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for lithographing of the plates for two thousand copies of the same, hereby authorized, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.Total for the Forestry Bureau, three thousand and six hundred dollars.For the Chief Quartermaster of the Department of Northern Luzon:For the purchase of native ponies hereby authorized for the squadron of Philippine Cavalry, thirty thousand dollars.For the provost-marshal at Cavite:For the pay of ten privates of the provost-guard at twelve dollars per month, and of a janitor for the provost-marshal building at twelve dollars and fifty cents per month, one hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents.For the chief surgeon at lloilo:For the purchase of three months medical supplies for ten thousand natives in the Department of the Visayas, seven hundred and fifty dollars.For the military commander at Balayan, Province of Batangas:For the hire of three school-teachers for the months of October, November, and December, nineteen hundred, ninety dollars.Total of appropriations in money of the United States, two hundred and eighty-three thousand five hundred and fifty-four dollars and fifty-four cents.SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this appropriation 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, December 19, 1900.

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