[ Act No. 2147, February 06, 1912 ]

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:SECTION 1. The sum of seventy thousand pesos is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to contribute to the support of charitable institutions, as follows:

For the campaign for the extermination of tuberculosis by the  Philippine Islands Anti-Tuberculosis Society, fifty thousand pesos;  for the protection of infants, through the institution "La Gota de  Leche," twelve thousand pesos; for the Mary J. Johnston Hospital,  eight thousand pesos. Total, seventy thousand pesos: Provided,  That no such appropriation shall be paid to any institution that  makes any discrimination as to persons received or treated by the  same on the ground of religious belief, and that before any money  can be allotted under this law the purpose for which it shall be used shall be approved by the Secretary of Public Instruction.

SEC. 2. The sums appropriated in the preceding section shall be disbursed by the Insular Treasurer in monthly installments, in the proper proportion.SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the same shall take effect on its passage, in accordance with section one of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and forty-five of the Philippine Legislature.Enacted, February 6, 1912.

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