Act No. 890 — An Act to Amend Section One of Act Numbered Eight Hundred and Four, Making Appropriations for Sundry Expenses of the City of Manila for the Fiscal Year Nineteen Hundred and Four, by Providing for an Engineer in Charge of the Manila Sewer System.

Act No. 890 · Act · Approved September 18, 1903 · 3 sections

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Section 1

SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Eight hundred and four, making appropriations for sundry expenses of the city of Manila for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, is hereby amended so as to make the paragraph providing an appropriation for the preliminary survey of a new sewer system, under the head of "Salaries and wages, Department of Engineering and Public Works, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and four," read as follows: "One engineer in charge of the Manila sewer system, at a compensation of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and a residence at not exceeding seventy-five dollars per month; one engineer, at three thousand dollars per annum; one assistant engineer, class six; one draftsman, class seven; one rodman, Class A."

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 18, 1903.

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