AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF L. M. MAUS, LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, UNITED STATES ARMY, LATE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC HEALTH, BY AUTHORIZING THE SETTLEMENT OF HIS PROPERTY RETURNS WITHOUT CHARGE AGAINST HIM.

• Number: Act No. 868
• Sections: 4

Preamble

Whereas L. M. Maus, lieutenant-colonel, United States Army, when Commissioner of Public Health for the Philippine Islands, became accountable for certain public civil property; and

Whereas said property was used for the purpose of combating bubonic plague and Asiatic cholera and in the interest of the public service; and in view of the fact that a committee convened by direction of the Civil Governor, under date of August twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and two, for the purpose of investigating, reporting upon, and making an inventory of all public civil property for which L. M. Maus, late Commissioner of Public Health, was chargeable, has recommended that he be held accountable for the loss of certain nonexpendable public civil property; and

Whereas in the opinion of the Commission the loss of the property was incident to a cholera epidemic and to conditions over which the said L. M. Maus had no control, and that the circumstances justify specific authorization for a credit in his accounts: Now, therefore,

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

Section 1

SECTION 1. Credit for the loss of certain public civil property, by said L. M. Maus, late Commissioner of Public Health, is hereby authorized, and the Auditor for the Philippine Islands is hereby authorized and directed to credit the property returns of said L. M. Maus with the nonexpendable property for which he was held accountable by the report of said committee.

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 5, 1903.