[ Act No. 40, October 31, 1900 ]

AN ACT PRESCRIBING THE METHOD TO BE ADOPTED IN MAKING REQUISITIONS FOR FUNDS FROM THE INSULAR TREASURY, AND REPEALING PORTIONS OF EXECUTIVE ORDER OF MAY EIGHTH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. Requisitions for advances from funds in the hands of the Treasurer for paying necessary and proper expenses chargeable to the revenues of the Islands shall he made by the respective officers or agents authorized to disburse the same in such form as shall be needed to defray the necessary expenses for three months, and shall be accompanied with itemized estimates of the amounts required, specifying character of expenditures and the funds or heads of the account from which payable. The first requisition under this section shall be for the period of three months, commencing on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and one, and succeeding requisitions shall be in like manner for like succeeding periods.SEC. 2. All portions of the rules and regulations accompanying executive order of May eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed.SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.Enacted, October 31, 1900.

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