Preamble
Whereas George C. Taulbee, second lieutenant, Philippines Constabulary, supply officer for the Province of Lepanto-Bontoc, on or about August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and two, left in the custody of a guard composed of three members of the Philippines Constabulary at San Esteban, Province of Ilocos Sur, the sum of two thousand dollars, local currency; and Whereas the said sum of money was stolen from said guard through no fault of the said Taulbee: and Whereas it appearing from the facts and circumstances connected with the loss of said money, that said Taulbee exercised due care and diligence in the preservation of the same: Therefore, By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: