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Act No. 1538 — An Act for the Relief of W. E. Craighill, Major, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, and Clinton B. Sears, Lieutenant Colonel, Corps of Engineers, United States Army.

Act No. 1538 — An Act for the Relief of W. E. Craighill, Major, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, and Clinton B. Sears, Lieutenant Colonel, Corps of Engineers, United States Army.

Act No. 1538 · Act · Approved September 8, 1906 · 3 sections

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Section 1

SECTION 1. The Auditor for the Philippine Islands is hereby directed to credit the account of W. E. Craighill, major, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, with the sum of two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents, United States currency, and the account of Clinton B. Sears, lieutenant-colonel, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, with the sum of twenty-eight dollars and sixty cents, United States currency, in account of dis-allowance made by the Auditor for the Philippine Islands because of certain unauthorized expenditures made by the said officers while acting as Officer in Charge of the Improvement of the Port of Manila.

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 in its passage. Enacted, September 8, 1906.

Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).

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