[ Act No. 594, January 13, 1903 ]

AN ACT POSTPONING THE DATE OF PAYMENT OF THE LOANS OF TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS EACH, MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, MADE TO THE PROVINCE OF ALBAY, ANTIQUE, BATAAN, CAPIZ, CAVITE, ILOCOS NORTE, ISABELA, LA UNION, MASBATE, PANGASINAN, RIZAL SURIGAO, AND ZAMBALES, UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR, TO DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THREE.

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

Whereas, owing to the cholera epidemic and to the prostration of agriculture through the ravages of rinderpest and of locusts, the resources of many provinces have been seriously crippled:

Section 1.1aшphi1 The date of payment to the Insular Treasury of the loans of two thousand five hundred dollars each, money of the United States, made to the Provinces of Albay, Antique, Bataan, Capiz, Cavite, Ilocos Norte, Isabela, La Union, Masbate, Pangasinan, Rizal, Surigao, and Zambales, under the provision of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-four, entitled "An Act providing for the loan of two thousand five hundred dollars from the Central Treasury to the treasury of each province organized under the General Provincial Act, to be repaid on or before December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ant two," is hereby postponed until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and three.

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, January 13, 1903.


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