Act No. 289




[ Act No. 289, November 01, 1901 ] AN ACT APPROPRIATING TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, IN INSULAR CURRENCY, FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF PUBLIC WHARFS AND LANDING FACILITIES IN THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT OF MINDANAO AND JOLO. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: Section 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, in insular currency, for the purchase of materials for the construction and repair of public wharfs and landing facilities in the military department of Mindanao and Jolo. The funds by this Act appropriated are available only for the payment of the draftsman hereinafter provided for, and for the purchase of tools, implements, and materials for the construction and repair of public wharfs and landing facilities at Zamboanga, Jolo, Parang-parang, Puerto Princesa, and Cagayan, in said department. The allotments of said funds to the work to be performed at the several places named shall be made under the direction of the general of the United States Army commanding in the Department of Mindanao and Jolo, and he is authorized to vary the allotments from time to time, as may be found to be in the interest of the public service, to the end that such funds as are not needed at one place may be expended elsewhere, within the limits of the general project in view and the appreciation hereby made. Section 2. The general commanding said department is also hereby authorized to employ and to pay from the funds herein appropriated one draftsman, at a monthly compensation of one hundred dollars, in insular currency, to date from the first day of August, nineteen hundred and one, to be employed in connection with the work for which the within appropriation is made, and likewise in the preparation of a map of Mindanao and adjacent islands.1aшphi1 Section 3. 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 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, November 1, 1901. The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation