[ Act No. 822, August 04, 1903 ]
AN ACT MAKING FURTHER APPROPRIATION OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE PURCHASE OF BULLION WITH WHICH TO COIN SILVER PHILIPPINE PESOS.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one million dollars, in money of the United States, for the purpose of purchasing additional bullion with which to coin silver Philippine pesos provided by the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to establish a standard of value and providing for a coinage system in the Philippine Islands," approved March second, nineteen hundred and three.
Section 2.1aшphi1 The money herein appropriated shall be available not only for the purchase of bullion but for all of the expenses connected with its coinage, transportation, insurance, and circulation.
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, August 4, 1903.
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