[ Act No. 489, October 27, 1902 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOUR DOLLARS, LOCAL CURRENCY, FOR CLARO JARAMILLO, FOR COMPENSATION FOR SERVICES RENDERED BY HIM FROM MAY FIRST, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHT, TO AND INCLUDING JUNE THIRTIETH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE, IN CARING FOR THE LIGHT-HOUSE AT CAPE MELVILLE.

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

Section 1. Whereas Claro Jaramillo, head light keeper at Cape Melville, in eighteen hundred and ninety-eight voluntarily continued to perform such services from May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to and including June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, without appointment from the Government authorities in these Islands, and protected and cared for the light-house at such point, the sum of seven hundred and eighty-four dollars, local currency, is hereby appropriated as compensation for the said Claro Jaramillo at the rate of fifty-six dollars, local currency, per month, for the period from May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to and including June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.

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.1aшphi1

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

Enacted, October 27, 1902.


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