AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE PROVINCIAL BOARD OF THE PROVINCE OF SAMAR TO PROVIDE FOR THE CARE OF RESIDENTS WOUNDED WHILE ENGAGED AS VOLUNTEERS IN THE DEFENSE OF THE MUNICIPALITIES OF SAID PROVINCE AGAINST THE ATTACKS OF PULAJANES, AND OF PACIFIC RESIDENTS WOUNDED BY SAID PULAJANES.

• Number: Act No. 1234
• Sections: 4

Preamble

Whereas it has been made to appear that during the recent activity of the pulajanes in the Province of Samar several residents engaged as volunteers in the defense of the municipalities of said province, and several pacific residents of said municipalities were wounded by said pulajanes, and it was deemed necessary by the local authorities that the persons so wounded should be cared for at the military hospital at Camp Council, Calbayog, and at the Constabulary hospital at Catbalogan, in said province; and

Whereas the provincial board of the Province of Samar has requested authority to pay out of provincial funds, the necessary expenses incurred in the care of such wounded persons at the hospitals above mentioned: Now, therefore,

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

Section 1

SECTION 1. The provincial board of the Province of Samar is hereby authorized to pay out of general provincial funds not otherwise appropriated, the necessary expenses incurred subsistence and medical attendance at the military hospital at Camp Council, Calbayog, and at the Constabulary hospital at Catbalogan of residents of said province wounded while engaged as volunteers in the defense of the municipalities of said province against the attacks of pulajanes, and of pacific residents wounded by said pulajanes.

Section 2

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.

Section 3

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, September 13, 1904.