AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF W. S. CONROW, TREASURER OF THE PROVINCE OF LEYTE.

• Number: Act No. 455
• Sections: 4

Preamble

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

Whereas W. S. Conrow, treasurer of the Province of Leyte, did, on the twenty-sixth day of August, nineteen hundred and one, by order of the provincial board, pay the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars, in money of the United States, to Jose Traviesas for the use of the steamer Antonio from July third to July eleventh, nineteen hundred and one, by the governor, treasurer, and supervisor of said province and the division superintendent of schools, there being, however, no law authorizing such payment; and it now appearing that the employment of said vessel was under peculiar and exceptional conditions and was in reality of great benefit to the province and the Insular Government:

Section 1

SECTION 1. The act of W. S. Conrow, treasurer of the Province of Leyte, in paying said sum of four hundred and fifty dollars for the use of said steamer Antonio to her owner, Jose Traviesas, is hereby validated and approved, and the said Conrow will be allowed credit on his books as provincial treasurer for said sum.

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 3, 1902.