[ Act No. 765, May 25, 1903 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND ACT NUMBERED FIVE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN, ENTITLED "AN ACT CREATING A COMMISSION TO SECURE, ORGANIZE, AND MAKE AN EXHIBIT OF PHILIPPINE PRODUCTS, MANUFACTURES, ART, ETHNOLOGY, AND EDUCATION AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION TO BE HELD AT SAINT LOUIS, IN THE UNITED STATES, IN NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FOUR," BY DISPENSING WITH THE NECESSITY FOR THE HOLDING OF A PRELIMINARY EXPOSITION AT MANILA AND BY MAKING ALLOWANCES IN LIEU OF ACTUAL TRAVELING EXPENSES FOR EACH MEMBER OF THE BOARD AND THE SECRETARY OF THE BOARD WHILE ABSENT FROM THEIR USUAL PLACES OF RESIDENCE ON THE BUSINESS OF THE BOARD DURING THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FOUR.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section one of Act Numbered Five hundred and fourteen, entitled "An Act creating a commission to secure, organize, and make an exhibit of Philippine products, manufactures, art, ethnology, and education at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to be held at Saint Louis, in the United States, in nineteen hundred and four," is hereby amended by inserting, after the sentence "The actual traveling expenses of each member, while absent from his usual place of residence on business of the board, shall be paid out of the Exposition fund hereinafter provided," the following: "and during the year from January first, nineteen hundred and four, to January first, nineteen hundred and five, each member of the board shall be allowed, in lieu of his actual traveling expenses, the sum of ten dollars a day while absent from his usual place of residence on business of the board."
Section 2. Section two of said Act Numbered Five hundred and fourteen is hereby amended by adding after the first paragraph thereof the following: "The secretary of the board shall, when absent from his usual place of residence on business of the board, be allowed his actual traveling expenses: Provided, That during the year nineteen hundred and four he shall be allowed, in lieu of his traveling expenses, the sum of seven dollars a day while absent from his usual place of residence on business of the board.1aшphi1"
Section 3. Section four of said Act is hereby amended by striking out the first sentence thereof, beginning with the words "The board is authorized" and ending with the word "Manila."
Section 4. Section five of said Act is hereby amended by striking out of the second paragraph thereof the words "and the holding of the preliminary exposition at Manila."
Section 5. 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 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, May 25, 1903.
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