Chapter 508. To provide for the purchase of certain coal claims in the island of Batan in the Philippine Islands
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CHAP. 508.— An Act To provide for the purchase of certain coal claims in the island of Batan in the Philippine Islands. February 26, 1906. [[H. R. 12864](/us/bill/59/hr/12864).] [[Public, No. 26](/us/pl/59/26).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Secretary of WarPhilippine Islands.Purchase of coal claims on Batan Island. be, and he is hereby, authorized to purchase the coal claims owned by Messrs.
Munoz and Villanueva, lying on the island of Batan, Philippine Islands, and upon which the War Department now holds an option; and to provide for the purchase of said claims the sum of fiftyAppropriation. thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the above sum is made immediately available in order that purchase may be made before the said option expires, to wit, before March first, nineteen hundred and six. Approved, February 26, 1906.