[ Acts No. 1820, May 11, 1908 ]
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE EXPENDITURE OF SEVENTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS UNITED STATES CURRENCY, FOR SALARY AND TRAVELING EXPENSES OF A DELEGATE FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND SUBORDINATE PERSONNEL TO ATTEND THE INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION CONFERENCE TO BE HELD FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHTH OF MAY, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHT, IN SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:
Section 1. The sum of seventeen thousand dollars, United States currency, or so much thereof as may he necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of the funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for traveling expenses and expenses of subsistence while traveling and for salary of the delegate from the Philippine Islands and of subordinate personnel who shall at lend the International Conference on Navigation to be held in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from the twenty-eighth of May. nineteen hundred and eight.
Section 2. Said delegate shall be appointed by the Governor-General, and will receive a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars, United States currency, a month, from the date of his embarkation for Saint Petersburg until one month after the said conference shall have been closed, and his traveling expenses and expenses of subsistence going and returning, in accordance with the next preceding section, shall be paid by (he Insular Treasurer.
Section 3. The delegate is hereby authorized to appoint the necessary subordinate personnel, and the salary of said personnel shall not exceed three hundred dollars. United Stales currency, a month: The Insular Treasurer shall pay the traveling expenses and expenses of subsistence of said personnel, both , in the same manner as those of the delegate: Provided, That the expenses of the subordinate personnel shall not exceed the necessary traveling expenses of one single employee.1aшphi1
Section 4. The Insular Treasurer shall provide for the payment, in advance, to the delegate, after his appointment and prior to his departure for Saint Petersburg, of his own salary and that of the subordinate personnel, corresponding to one quarter: and shall place funds in any bank of that capital, to be collected by the said delegate in his discretion, after the first quarter for which payment was made shall have elapsed.
Section 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, May 11, 1908.
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