[ Act No. 237, September 24, 1901 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION FIVE AND SECTION EIGHT OF ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHT, RELATING TO OFFICIAL TRANSPORTATION.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. Section five of Act Numbered One hundred and ninety-eight, relating to official transportation, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following:

"Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the Chief and Assistant Chief of the Fire Department, the Chief and Assistant Chief of Police, and the Attending Physician and his assistant to house and stable their official vehicles and horses at their places of residence and to use the same in going to and returning from such residences on official business; but such vehicles and horses shall be under the control of the Insular Purchasing Agent as to the care of vehicles and the care and forage of horses."

SEC. 2. Section eight of Act Numbered One hundred and ninety-eight shall he amended by striking out the words "to go to and from Manila from and to the provinces" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "to go from one point to another in the Archipelago," and by adding to the section the following: "The Insular Purchasing Agent shall furnish transportation requests, with proper stubs, in book form, signed by him, to each provincial treasurer, to enable the latter to countersign and issue the same upon the order of the head of the proper insular Bureau for any Insular officer or employee, whose official duty requires him to proceed from the province of the provincial treasurer to some other part of the Archipelago. Each provincial treasurer receiving such requests shall be accountable for them to the Insular Purchasing Agent. The Insular Purchasing Agent shall, with the approval of the Insular Auditor, make proper regulations for the issuing of such requests by the provincial treasurers to prevent their use for improper or unauthorized purposes."SEC. 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.SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.Enacted, September 24, 1901.

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