AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A LOAN OF EIGHT THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED PESOS, PHILIPPINE CURRENCY, TO THE PROVINCE OF BATANGAS, IN ORDER TO ENABLE THE MUNICIPALITIES OF SANTO TOMAS, TANAUAN, AND LIPA OF THAT PROVINCE TO BETTER THEIR POLICE FORCE, WHICH IS TO BE UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE SENIOR INSPECTOR OF CONSTABULARY, FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUPPRESSING LADRONISM IN THAT PROVINCE.

• Number: Act No. 1166
• Sections: 4

Section 1

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eight thousand eight hundred pesos, Philippine currency, to be loaned to the Province of Batangas, to be by it reloaned to the municipalities of Santo Tomas, Tanauan and Lipa in sums of two thousand four hundred, three thousand, and three thousand four hundred pesos. Philippine currency, respectively, for the purpose of enabling them to better their police force, which is to be under the supervision of the senior inspector of Constabulary of the province, for the purpose of suppressing ladronism in that province.

Section 2

SEC. 2. The money appropriated in the first section of this Act shall be paid to the treasurer of the Province of Batangas upon the production by him to the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands of a certified copy of a resolution of the provincial board requesting such loan and agreeing to repay the money, without interest, within two years from the date of the loan. The money loaned by this Act shall be expended by the provincial board in the manner prescribed in the preceding section.

Section 3

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.

Section 4

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, May 28, 1904.