Preamble
Whereas J. Thomas Hurd, having resigned his position as an employee of class eight in the Department of Engineering and Public Works, city of Manila, is entitled to leave of absence expiring July fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three; and, Whereas such leave should be apportioned between the Province of Isabela and the city of Manila, in view of the fact that said Hurd was for a portion of his service the provincial supervisor of said province, with a compensation of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and the city of Manila having already granted him its proportionate share of said leave of absence: Now, therefore, By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: