AN ACT EMPOWERING THE PROVINCIAL BOARD OF THE PROVINCE OF BULACAN TO MAKE APPROPRIATION FOR PROPORTIONATE PART OF ACCRUED LEAVE OF ABSENCE EARNED BY ROBERT C. WHEELER, LATE PROVINCIAL SUPERVISOR OF SAID PROVINCE, AND APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINE DOLLARS AND THIRTY-SEVEN CENTS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR PROPORTIONATE PART OF SUCH ACCRUED LEAVE DUE BY THE CITY OF MANILA.

• Number: Act No. 756
• Sections: 4

Section 1

SECTION 1. Whereas Robert C. Wheeler, late provincial supervisor of the Province of Bulacan, having resigned his position, is entitled to leave of absence expiring June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and three, and whereas such leave should be apportioned between the city of Manila and the Province of Bulacan, in view of the fact that said Wheeler was for a portion of his service a city engineer:

The provincial board of the Province of Bulacan is hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate the sum of one hundred and thirty-six dollars and seventy-four cents, in money of the United States, to Robert C. Wheeler, late provincial supervisor of said province, in payment for the proportionate part of accrued leave of absence due to said Wheeler by said province, such leave being that to which he is entitled under the provisions of Act Numbered Eighty, as amended, and the computation for the appropriation being upon the basis of leave commencing April first, nineteen hundred and three, at a compensation of one thousand seven hundred dollars per annum. The provincial treasurer of said province is authorized and directed to make payment in accordance with law to said Wheeler of such amount, pursuant to appropriation duly made.

Section 2

SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-seven cents, in money of the United States, or its equivalent in local currency at the authorized rate of exchange at the date of payment, for payment to Robert C. Wheeler of a proportionate part of allowance in lieu of accrued leave or absence due him by the city of Manila under the provisions of Act Numbered Eighty, as amended, the computation for such appropriation being upon the basis of leave commencing April first, nineteen hundred and three, at a compensation of one thousand seven hundred dollars per annum. The Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago is directed to issue his certificate for settlement warrant for this amount, pursuant to this appropriation.

Section 3

SEC. 3. 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 4

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, May 20, 1903.