Chapter 23.
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CHAP. 23.— Joint Resolution To authorize additional appropriations for the relief of Porto Rico. January 22, 1930.[[S. J. Res. 118](/us/bill/71/sjres/118).][[Pub. Res., No. 33](/us/bill/71/pubres/33).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is herebyPorto Rico hurricane.Sum authorized for loans to planters, etc., for losses by.Vol. 45, pp. 1069, 1609.Rebuilding schoolhouses, roads, etc. authorized to be appropriated the sum of $1,000,000 for the purpose of making loans to individual coffee planters, coconut planters, fruit growers, or other agriculturists in the island of Porto Rico; the sum of $2,000,000 for the rebuilding and repairing of schoolhouses damaged or destroyed by the hurricane in the small towns and rural districts of Porto Rico and for the employment of labor and the purchase of supplies, materials, and equipment for repairing and constructing insular and rural municipal roads; in all, $3,000,000, to be made available immediately and to remain available until expended.
Sec. 2. The sums hereby authorized to be appropriated shall beExpenses by Relief Commission.*Post*, pp. 240, 865, 1367.Vol. 45, p. 1067. expended in such manner and in such amounts as may be approved by the Porto Rican Hurricane Relief Commission, established by Public Resolution Numbered 74, Seventieth Congress, approved December 21, 1928. Approved, January 22, 1930.