Section 2
SEC. 2. The payment of certain vouchers from the firm of Manuel Earnshaw and Company, covering repairs to the steam launch Washington during the month of March, nineteen hundred and three amounting to three thousand nine hundred and forty-seven dollars. Mexican currency, and an additional voucher for extra work in paid launch amounting to eight hundred and thirty-two dollars and ninety-nine cents. Mexican currency is hereby authorized : Provided, That the Auditor shall approve the disbursement of these sums the provisions of sections thirty and thirty-one of Art Numbered One hundred and eighty-three to the contrary notwithstanding, in view of the circumstances in this case, which were that the work of repairs had been begun with the information that the cost thereof probably would not reach five hundred dollars, but that the necessity for additional repairs costing more than five hundred dollars was shown when the launch was placed in dry dock and unknown defects then discovered, when it would have involved a large additional expense to delay until bids could be invited in accordance with law.