By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, in money of the United States, for the payment of the salary of the Collecting Librarian of the Insular Government, appointed in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Six hundred and eighty-eight, for the first half of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four.

SEC. 2. The funds appropriated by this Act shall be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the Executive Bureau as in other cases.

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, October 7, 1903.