[ Act No. 287, October 31, 1901 ]

AN ACT MAKING AVAILABLE ALL FUNDS PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED FOR PAYMENT OF SCOUTS AND SCOUT INTERPRETERS FOR SERVICES RENDERED DOWN TO THE DATE IN THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ONE, WHEN SAID SCOUTS AND SCOUT INTERPRETERS WERE MUSTERED OUT OF THE SERVICE OF THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE QUARTER FOR WHICH SUCH APPROPRIATIONS WERE ORIGINALLY MADE.

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

Section 1. All funds previously appropriated for the payment of scouts and scout interpreters employed exclusively with scout organizations are hereby made available for disbursement without regard to the quarter in which and for which such funds were originally appropriated, for services rendered up to and including the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and one, or to the date thereafter, not exceeding thirty days additional, when such scouts and scout interpreters who did not enlist in the regular military establishment of the United States, were mustered out of the service of the Philippine Government.1aшphi1

Section 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.

Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, October 31, 1901.


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