Act No. 1997 — An Act Appropriating the Sum of Ten Thousand Pesos for the Establishment and Maintenance of a Public Park in the Municipality of Dapitan, Moro Province, in Memory of Jose Rizal.

Act No. 1997 · Act · Approved September 23, 1910 · 2 sections

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Section 1

SECTION 1. The sum of ten thousand pesos is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Governor-General, for all necessary expenses incident to the reservation, laying out, construction, care, and maintenance of a public park and the buildings and appurtenances pertaining thereto to be known as the "Rizal Park," in memory of the Filipino patriot Jose Rizal, comprising three tracts of land known as parcels numbered one, two, and three in the municipality of Dapitan, Moro Province, Island of Mindanao, reserved for such purpose by Executive Orders Numbered Thirty-three and Fifty-one, current series.

Section 2

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, th.e 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, September 23, 1910.

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