Question & AnswerQ&A (Act No. 430)
The main purpose of Act No. 430, July 14, 1902 is to appropriate the sum of two million eight hundred and twenty-three thousand seven hundred and five dollars and twenty-eight cents in United States money for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, for the Insular Government and the city of Manila, including compensation of officials and other government expenses.
The appropriations in this Act are made in money of the United States, but disbursements are to be withdrawn from the Treasury in local currency at the authorized rate at the time of withdrawal.
No contract or obligation of the Insular Government entered into by any head of Department, Bureau, or Office shall hereafter be made payable only in United States currency. They may be payable in United States currency or its equivalent in local currency at the authorized ratio at the time of payment, at the option of the Government.
The Act appropriates salaries for the President and seven Commissioners at $5,000 per annum each; Secretary and Spanish Secretary at $3,500 each; multiple private secretaries and clerks at various classes and specified amounts, totaling $20,580 for salaries and wages for the fiscal year 1903.
Transportation expenses include actual and necessary traveling expenses, hire of vehicles when not available from the Insular Purchasing Agent, with specified maximum amounts for different departments. The Act authorizes payment for such transportation in local currency with specified limits.
The Act appropriates $35,000 for suppression and extermination of epidemic diseases and pests, including expenses for hospitals, medicines, subsistence of patients and employees, cleaning infected districts, and allowances to Army medical officers detailed with the Board of Health.
In several Bureaus, per diem allowances are provided to military officers detailed to civil duty to compensate for commutations and allowances from which they are excluded as officers of the Army or Navy, in lieu of expenses except official transportation and subsistence when included in transportation by commercial steamship lines.
Yes, the net amount of collections under forestry laws made in provinces and Manila shall be prorated and returned quarterly to the respective provinces after deducting the expenses of conducting the Forestry Bureau.
The Act appropriates a specific sum to Prudencia Garcia, governor of Surigao, as compensation at the rate of $100 local currency per month for services rendered under military direction during a specified period in 1901.
The Act appropriates a sufficient sum out of the Insular Treasury funds for the payment of claims for refunds on coal imported for use as fuel on steam vessels, in accordance with provisions of Act Numbered Three hundred and fifty-five.