Chapter 105. To provide for payment of the claims of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippine Islands
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CHAP. 105.— An Act To provide for payment of the claims of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippine Islands. March 26, 1908. [[H. R. 16143](/us/bill/60/hr/16143).] [[Private, No. 37](/us/pvtl/60/37).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That there is herein appropriated,Roman Catholic Church. Philippine islands.Payment for use and occupation of property of. out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred and three thousand and thirty dollars and nineteen cents, the same to be paid to the archbishop of Manila, in the Philippine Islands, as the representative (and trustee) of the Roman Catholic Church in said Islands; and that the acceptance of said sum. paid under the provisions of this Act. shall be in full satisfaction of all claims for use and occupation of the property of said church in said islands and for damages done thereto by the military forces of the United States prior to the date, to wit, January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six of the official report of the “Board on Church Claims,” which said board, composed of John A.
Hull, lieutenant-colonel, judge-advocate; Alexander O. Brodie, lieutenant-colonel, military secretary, and J. W. Moore, first lieutenant, Second Cavalry, was duly convened August first, nineteen hundred and five, at headquarters Philippines Division in the city of Manila, in said islands, to consider and report upon said claims. Approved, March 26, 1908.