Chapter 91. Appropriating, for the benefit and government of Porto Rico, revenues collected on importations therefrom since its evacuation by Spain, and revenues hereafter collected on such importations under existing law
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CHAP. 91.— An Act Appropriating, for the benefit and government of Porto Rico, revenues collected on importations therefrom since its evacuation by Spain, and revenues hereafter collected on such importations under existing law. March 24, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sum of two million Porto Rico. Customs revenue available for existing government, etc. and ninety-five thousand four hundred and fifty-five dollars and eighty-eight cents, being the amount of customs revenue received on importations by the United States from Porto Rico since the evacuation of Porto Rico by the Spanish forces on the eighteenth of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, to the first of January, nineteen hundred, together with any further customs revenue collected on importations from Porto Rico since the first of January, nineteen hundred, or that shall hereafter be collected under existing law, shall be placed at the disposal of the President, to be used for the government now existing and which may hereafter be established in Porto Rico, and for the aid and relief of the people thereof, and for public education, public works, and other governmental and public purposes therein until otherwise provided by law; and the revenues herein referred to, already collected and to be collected under existing law, are hereby appropriated for the purposes herein specified, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 24, 1900.