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[ Act No. 1, September 12, 1900 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING TWO MILLION DOLLARS, MEXICAN, TO BE USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

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

Section 1. The sum of two million dollars, Mexican, is hereby Mexican money, appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be expended in the immediate construction and repair of highways and bridges in the Philippine Islands.

Section 2. The sum so appropriated shall be expended under the Expenditure, direction of the Military Governor in the construction and repair of such highways and bridges as in his judgment may be most conducive to the public welfare.

Section 3. The Insular Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the warrants of the Military Governor for the sum so appropriated.1aшphi1

Section 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, September 12, 1900.

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