[ Act No. 18, October 10, 1900 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN DOLLARS AND NINETY-FIVE CENTS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, TO PAY EXPENSES INCURRED AND SALARIES EARNED, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. The sum of one thousand six hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety-five cents, in money of the United States, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be paid as follows:To F. W. Vaille, Director-General of Posts, the sum of nine hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifteen cents, expenses incurred by him in the purchase and maintenance of two horses, harness, and a carriage used from the twelfth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred, for official transportation. This appropriation is made on condition that the horses, harness, and carriage now used by him in the business of his office belong to the Island Government and are subject to the control of the proper authorities thereof, and that said Vaille execute an instrument properly evidencing the same.To Fred W. Atkinson, General Superintendent of Public Instruction, four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty cents, salary for the month of September, nineteen hundred.To L. H. Willis, stenographer in the office of the General Superintendent of Public Instruction, eighty-one dollars and sixty cents, salary for the month of September, nineteen hundred.To Clodoaldo Rocha, interpreter in the office of the General Superintendent of Public Instruction, the sum of seventy-five dollars, salary for the month of September, nineteen hundred.SEC. 2. The Military Governor is authorized and directed to draw his warrants for the foregoing sums of money in favor of the respective persons named, and the Insular Treasurer is directed to pay the same.SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.Enacted, October 10, 1900.

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