Act No. 281 — An Act Amending Section One of Act Numbered One Hundred and Ninety-Six, Authorizing the Loan from the Insular Treasury of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars Each to the Provinces of Capiz, Ambos Camarines, and Iloilo, by Permitting the Provincial Board to Purchase Rice and to Pay Wages in Rice Instead of Money.
Act No. 281 — An Act Amending Section One of Act Numbered One Hundred and Ninety-Six, Authorizing the Loan from the Insular Treasury of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars Each to the Provinces of Capiz, Ambos Camarines, and Iloilo, by Permitting the Provincial Board to Purchase Rice and to Pay Wages in Rice Instead of Money.
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SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered One hundred and ninety-six, authorizing the loan of twenty-five thousand dollars each to the Province of Capiz, Ambos Camarines, and Iloilo for the construction of roads, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following:
"The provincial board shall have the discretion to authorize the expenditure of a proper part of said sum for the purchase of rice and the payment of wages in rice instead of money, as the necessities of the situation seem to demand."
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.
