Chapter 223. To provide for the payment of the claim of the Roman Catholic Church of Zamboanga, in the Philippine Islands
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CHAP. 223.— An Act To provide for the payment of the claim of the Roman Catholic Church of Zamboanga, in the Philippine Islands. May 9, 1910.[[H. R. 21636](/us/bill/61/hr/21636).][[Private, No. 66](/us/pvt/61/66).] *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 of Zamboanga, Philippine Islands. Payment to.out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of live thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty-eight cents, to be paid by the Secretary of War to the properly accredited representative or representatives of the Roman Catholic Church of Zamboanga, in the Philippine Islands, in accordance with findings of a board of arbitration convened by orders from headquarters, Philippine Division, February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and nine, in compliance with instructions of the Secretary of War, dated January eighth, nineteen hundred and nine, and composed of Captain Frank H.
Lawton. Subsistence Department, Captain Allers J. Greer, judge-advocate. Reverend Father Isodore de la Torre, Reverend Father Antonio Armlot and Mr. Fred A. Thompson, and that the acceptance by the said properly accredited representative or representatives of said Roman Catholic Church of Zamboanga of the amount above specified shall be in full satisfaction of all claims for the value of a piece of 1702property within the military reservation at Zamboanga, formerly the Roman Catholic cemetery used for all burials hiking place within the parish of Zamboanga, taken by the United States Government for use in connection with the construction of noncommissioned officers’ quarters on said reservation.
Approved, May 9, 1910.