Be it  enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1.  The Secretary of Justice is hereby authorized to purchase from the  heir.s  of the  late Don Wenceslao E. Retana all papers, books, documents, printed works,  and unpublished manuscripts on  the Philippine Islands in their possession, including  the copyright  upon the same,  which shall  all become the  property of  the Government of the Philippine Islands and shall  be kept  and  filed in the Philippine Library and Museum.   The Secretary of Justice shall make  a careful investigation and shall decide which of the books, documents, papers,  and unpublished manuscripts shall be purchased.

SEC. 2. The sum of fifteen thousand  pesos or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated, out  of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the purposes of this Act.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect  on its approval.

Approved,  March 6, 1924.