Section 3
SEC. 3. Pursuant to the provisions of section one of Act Numbered Nine hundred and thirty-eight, which declares "That, whenever the public interest permits, there may be withdrawn from the gold-standard fund such amount as the Philippine Government may deem proper to pay the principal and interest of all, or any part of, the certificates of indebtedness issued under section six of the said Act of Congress of March second, nineteen hundred and three," there is hereby appropriated from the gold-standard fund the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars, gold coin of the United States, for the payment in New York, upon maturity, of the principal of the fifth series of certificates of indebtedness, maturing September first, nineteen hundred and six, and issued pursuant to the provisions of section six of said Act of Congress approved March second, nineteen hundred and three, and Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and seventy-seven of the Philippine Commission.