[ Act No. 350, February 03, 1902 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, IN LOCAL CURRENCY, TO BE PAID TO MARIA E. LONZUELA SANTOS, THE WIDOW OF DON MARIANO RAMIREZ, LATE PRESIDENT OF BOCAUE, OR TO THE TREASURER OF THE PROVINCE FOR HER BENEFIT.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. Whereas Don Mariano Ramirez, president of Bocaue, Bulacan, was murdered while in the discharge of his official duties because of the efficient administration of his office and his loyalty to the United States, and his untimely death leaves his wife and five small children in needy circumstances:The sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, in local currency, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid, in the discretion of the Civil Governor, either to Maria E. Lonzuela Santos, the widow of Don Mariano Ramirez, or to the provincial treasurer of the Province of Bulacan, to be held and expended by him for her benefit.SEC. 2. 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.Enacted, February 3, 1902.

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