Preamble
Whereas, in January, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the provincial government of the Province of Bohol collected a sum of money by taxation, for provincial purposes, of which sum seventeen thousand three hundred dollars, in Mexican curency, was unexpended at the time of the American occupancy of the Island of Bohol, and came into the hands of the commander of the United States forces in that island, upon the occupancy thereof by the United States troops, which funds have been placed on deposit with Smith, Bell and Company, at four per cent interest, to hold for the benefit of the people of that province, the receipt for which deposited money is now held by Major T. C. Woodbury, of the Nineteenth Infantry, United States Army, commanding the United States troops in the Island of Bohol, and it is desired that the funds should be devoted to provincial uses: