Chapter 186. To provide for payment of the claims of certain religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippine Islands
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CHAP. 186.— An Act To provide for payment of the claims of certain religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippine Islands. April 21, 1910.[[S. 2863](/us/bill/61/s/2863).][[Private, No. 50](/us/pvt/61/50).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That there is hereby appropriated, Roman Catholic Church in Philippine Islands. Payment to religious orders of, for property damages, etc.out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of forty-nine thousand three hundred and seventy two dollars and fifty cents, to be paid by the Secretary of War to the properly accredited representatives of the following-named four religious orders of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippine Islands according to the amounts set forth:
The Augustinians, twenty-eight thousand and seventy-live dollars; the Dominicans, eleven thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars; the Recoletos, seven thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents; and the Franciscans, two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars; and that the acceptance by the properly accredited representatives of said respective religious orders of the separate amounts above specified shall be in full satisfaction of all claims for use and occupation of the property of said respective religious orders in said islands, and for damages done thereto by the. military forces of the United States prior to the date, to wit, January twenty-fourth, 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 Philippine Division, in the city of Manila, in said islands, to consider and report upon said claims. Approved, April 21, 1910.