[ Act No. 244, September 30, 1901 ]
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF A TRACT OF LAND FOR PROVINCIAL, INSULAR, AND MILITARY PURPOSES IN TACLOBAN, LEYTE.
By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1.The provincial board of Leyte is hereby authorized to expend from the provincial treasury the sum of eleven thousand and thirty dollars Mexican, to purchase a tract of land in Tacloban lying northeast of the street known as "Gran Capitan," for provincial purposes.
Section 2. The Civil Governor is hereby authorized to purchase for the Insular Government, for three thousand three hundred and seventy dollars Mexican, six lots, numbered fourteen, fifteen (two lots), sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and nineteen, as shown on the plat on file with the Commission, prepared under the direction of the governor and treasurer of Leyte, these lots also being northeast of the street known as "Gran Capitan;" and the sum of three thousand three hundred and seventy dollars, Mexican, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of making the purchase hereby authorized. The lots thus purchased for the Insular Government shall be held for the uses of that Government, or as a military reservation, or to be otherwise disposed of hereafter as may seem f desirable.1aшphi1
Section 3. The purchase shall not be completed on behalf of the Insular Government until the provincial fiscal of the Province of Leyte shall examine the titles to the property held by the proposed vendors and shall make a certificate that such titles are good, to be approved by the Attorney-General, to the Civil Governor.
Section 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," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Section 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, September 30, 1901.
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