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Act No. 42 Section 1

Act No. 42 Section 1

Section 1

SECTION 1. The following sums in Mexican money are appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the current expenses of the Insular Government for the month of November, nineteen hundred, and other designated months, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely: For the Chief Quartermaster of the United States Army for the Division of the Philippines: For electric lighting and supplies, and rents and repairs to buildings, six thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents; for authorized expenditures in the Department of the Visayas, the Departments of Mindanao and Jolo, for emergency requisitions during the month, for pay of doctors for smallpox patients at Vigan, and for a deficiency in the pay of Macabebe scouts for the months of September and October, seventy-nine thousand seven hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents. Total of Mexican money for the Chief Quartermaster, eighty-six thousand five hundred and forty-seven dollars. For the purchase of medical supplies for the naval storehouse, Cavite, one hundred and forty-six dollars and forty cents For the Chief Signal Officer: For supplies and labor in the construction and maintenance of telegraph, telephone, and cable lines in the Philippine islands, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the Provost-Marshal-General: For the Department of Streets, Parks, Fire, and Sanitation, seven hundred and eighty dollars; for coal for the Department of Water Supply, four thousand dollars. Total for the Provost-Marshal-General in Mexican money, four thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. For the Forestry Bureau: For salaries of six assistant foresters, six hundred dollars; for salaries of thirteen rangers, six hundred and fifty dollars; for traveling and other expenses incident thereto, four hundred dollars. Total for the Forestry Bureau in Mexican money, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For the Bureau of Mining: For the salary of an interpreter and translator from October first to October ninth, inclusive, sixty dollars. For the provost-marshal of Cavite: For salaries of janitor, for police for the United States military prison, and for incidental expenses, two hundred and seventy-five dollars. For the captain of the port at Capiz: For salaries and wages, eighty-two dollars. For the captain of the port at Balanga: For salary of health officer for October and November and for wages of crew for boarding boat and maintaining harbor lights, one hundred and fifty-five dollars. For the captain of the port at Dapitan: For salaries, wages, and miscellaneous expenses, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For the captain of the port at Dapitan: For salaries, wages, and miscellaneous expenses for the month of April, nineteen hundred, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For the captain of the port at Aparri: For salaries, wages, and incidental expenses for the office of the captain of the port, for the Engario light-house, and for the Linao light-house, seven hundred and thirty-six dollars. For a refund of an overpayment to the Treasurer by W. S. Conrow, collector of internal revenue at Catbalogan, for the period ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, eight dollars and sixty cents. For the quartermaster and disbursing officer of the United States military prison at San Isidro: For salaries, two hundred and seventy-five dollars; for salaries for December, two hundred and seventy-five dollars; for subsistence for prisoners for thirty-one days of December, three thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty cents. Total in Mexican currency for the quartermaster and disbursing officer of San Isidro prison, three thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents. For J. H. Baker, Captain of the Forty-Sixth Infantry, United States Volunteers, to repay over remittance to the Treasurer, nineteen dollars and eighty cents. Total for appropriations in Mexican currency for the month of November and other designated months, one hundred thousand seven hundred dollars and thirty cents.

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