Section 1
SECTION 1. Whereas Claro Jaramillo, head light keeper at Cape Melville, in eighteen hundred and ninety-eight voluntarily continued to perform such services from May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to and including June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, without appointment from the Government authorities in these Islands, and protected and cared for the light-house at such point, the sum of seven hundred and eighty-four dollars, local currency, is hereby appropriated as compensation for the said Claro Jaramillo at the rate of fifty-six dollars, local currency, per month, for the period from May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to and including June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine.