[No. 27.] AN ACT TO REPEAL CERTAIN NO-FISCAL-YEAR APPROPRIATIONS CREATED BY PREVIOUS LEGISLATURES. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico: Section 1. That the no-fiscal-year appropriations named in Section 3 of this Act, or such part of them as may remain after the passage of this Act, be and are hereby repealed; Provided, however, That any obligations that may have accrued and be unpaid when this Act shall have been approved, shall first be settled. Section 2.-The Auditor of Porto Rico shall require of each officer or employee charged with, or responsible for the expenditure of the funds appropriated a statement of any pending liabilities that may exist at the date of the approval of this Act. On receipt of said statement, the Auditor shall close out by surplus fund warrant, in the manner required by law, such part of the appropriations set forth in Section 3 hereof as shall not be encumbered by the aforesaid obligations. Section 3.-Statement of no-fiscal-year appropriations to be repealed: Title. Establishing hospitals in the seven Creative Act. districts of Porto Rico----- No. 44, 3/13/13 Sanitation Service, Indemnity. Fund Commission for study of Employ Unexpended balance March 1. 1915. $120,000.00 29, 778. 20 J.R. 16, 3/13/13 ring statue of Ponce de León_-_J.R. 10, 3/13/13 4,000.00 Expenses of the Bank Law Com mission J.R. 11, 3/7/12 1,000.00 Establishing permanent exposition grounds for the Insular Fair___J.R. 14, 3/13/12 Survey and study for widening San 75.00 Juan-Río Piedras Road_‒‒‒‒‒‒J.R. 12, 3/9/11 2,710.85 Publication of Digest of the De cisions of the Supreme Court_-_No. 118, 3/13/13 Publication of the Decisions of the 7,200.00 Supreme Court: Rent and transportation-------J.R. 19, 2/14/12 $0.62 Provided, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply to the unexpended portion of the appropriation of $75,000 made under Section 1 of Act 108, approved March 13, 1913, for the construction of five buildings for industrial and agricultural schools. Section 4. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 5. That this Act shall take effect on approval. Approved, March 11, 1915. [No. 28.] AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 85 OF THE POLITICAL CODE, AS APPROVED MARCH 1, 1902, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE ENDORSEMENT OF ANY DRAFT ISSUED BY THE TREASURER OF PORTO RICO, BY THE NEXT OF KIN, IN CASE NO EXECUTOR OR ADMINISTRATOR HAS BEEN OR IS TO BE APPOINTED FOR THE ESTATE OF A DECEDENT, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico: Section 1.-That Section 85 of the Political Code of Porto Rico, as approved March 1, 1902, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Section 85.-No indorsement of any draft of the Treasurer by an attorney in fact or agent of the payee of such draft, shall be valid unless specially authorized by a power of attorney duly executed by the payee, or, in case of his death, by his duly appointed executor or administrator, after the issuance of the draft, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, and duly acknowledged before a notary public or any officer having authority to take acknowledgments of deeds. Such power of attorney must recite the number, date and amount of the draft, and the number and class of the warrant on which such draft is drawn, and must be filed with the draft. "Indorsements by the payee in person must be written by him and correspond with the name of the payee as written on the face of the draft. If the payee is unable to write his name upon the draft, the indorsement may be by his cross-mark made thereon in the presence of two attesting witnesses who shall subscribe their names as witnesses. When the draft is payable to a firm or partnership, it must be in dorsed in the name of such firm or partnership by an active partner thereof; when payable to a company or corporation, the draft must be indorsed by the officer or agent of such company or corporation duly authorized to receive, receipt and indorse in its behalf. "In case of the death of the payee of any draft issued by the Treasurer, the duly appointed executor or administrator of the decedent, or the heirs judicially declared, shall have authority to indorse such draft; Provided, That in case no executor or administrator has been appointed for the estate of the said decedent, or that the heirs have not been judicially declared within three months after the death of the decedent, then the legal heir or heirs, in the opinion of the Auditor of Porto Rico legally entitled to such payment, shall have authority to endorse such draft provided it does not exceed one hundred dollars; and in case of the bankruptcy or insolvency of such payee, the trustee of his estate, duly appointed by a competent court, shall have authority to indorse. Where the payee of any such draft is unable to indorse the same, by reason of minority, lunacy or mental incapacity, his duly authorized tutor shall have authority to indorse. And in case of the absence of the payee from Porto Rico, and during such absence only, his agent or attorney duly authorized by power of attorney specially empowering such agent or attorney to transact all business of the principal with the Insular Government, and to collect and receive all moneys due to the principal by The People of Porto Rico, during such absence, shall have authority to indorse. "The Treasurer shall require satisfactory evidence as to the authority for any indorsement to be filed with the draft before accepting such indorsement as sufficient, in order that the warrant and draft may be allowed in the settlement of his account by the Auditor." Section 2.-That all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 3.-That this Act shall take effect immediately upon its approval. Approved, March 11, 1915. MAKING [No. 29.] AN ACT APPROPRIATIONS APPROPRIATIONS TO SUPPLY DEFICIENCIES IN Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico: Section 1. That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies. in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, and for the objects in this Section expressly named: OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF THE INTERIOR. Contingent expenses, Office of the Commissioner of the Interior: Incidentals, automobile expenses, traveling expenses, postage and freight, telegraph and telephone service, stationery and printing and miscellaneous, $1,104.75. Division of Public Lands: For field and traveling expenses and incidentals, in connection with land surveys, $650. Division of Harbor and Docks: Percentage payments to pilots act ing as captains of ports at ports other than San Juan, Ponce and Mayagüez, $425. Total, Office of the Commissioner of the Interior, $2,179.25. Section 2. That this Act shall take effect from and after its approval. Approved, March 11, 1915. [No. 30.] AN ACT INTERIOR TO AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE COMMISSIONER OF THE Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico: Section 1. That the Commissioner of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to execute a proper deed transferring and conveying to the Municipality of San Juan, Porto Rico, that certain parcel of land situated in the barrio of Puerta de Tierra, Municipality of San Juan, Porto Rico, and described as follows: "Parcel of land ten meters wide, situated to the south of street known as Tadeo de Rivero, and bounded as follows: On the north by San Agustín Street; on the south by the right of way of the Compañía de los Ferrocarriles de Puerto Rico; on the east for a distance of 62.29 meters by lot No. 50 B, the property of The People of Porto Rico, marked No. 16, on the official Department-of-the-Interior map of Puerta de Tierra, dated November, 1909; on the west for a distance of 59.55 meters by a lot also the property of The People of Porto Rico, marked No. 15 on the said official Department-of-the-Interior map of Puerta de Tierra." Section 2.-That the parcel of land so transferred shall be used by the Municipality of San Juan exclusively as a site upon which to construct a public street and public walks; Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit construction, in or under such street and walks, of sewers, water mains or pipes, or to prohibit the use of such street and walks, when duly authorized and under proper restrictions, by public-utility companies for the placing of street-car tracks, poles, wires, ducts, cables, conduits, pipes, etc., in, along, above or under the said street and walks; And provided, further, That the acceptance by the Municipality of San Juan of title to the said parcel of land shall be and constitute an agreement on the part of the said municipality to maintain the said street open to traffic, to macadamize or pave the surface of the said street, to provide for the construction of adequate walks for the use of the public, and thereafter to maintain or provide for the maintenance of the surface of such street and walks in good condition of repair; And provided, further, That should at any time the said street to be constructed on the said parcel of land be abandoned, or its use discontinued, the right or title to the said parcel of land shall thereupon revert to and be vested in The People of Porto Rico. Section 3. That the expense of transferring the said parcel of land, and the registration of the corresponding deed shall be for account of and be paid by the Municipality of San Juan, Porto Rico. Section 4.-That all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed Section 5.-That this Act shall take effect from and after its approval. Approved, March 11, 1915. [No. 31.] AN ACT TO PROTECT PORTO RICAN CIGARS FROM FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION, BY PROVIDING FOR ADEQUATE EXPERT INSPECTION, AND THE ISSUE OF STAMPS OF GUARANTEE COVERING THE ORIGIN OF TOBACCO USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SUCH CIGARS, INTENDED FOR EXPORTATION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Porto Rico: Section 1. That the Treasurer of Porto Rico is hereby authorized to employ three additional internal revenue agents, who shall be tobacco experts, at salaries of fifteen hundred dollars each per annum; whose duty shall be the registration, in such form as may be directed, of the brands of cigars manufactured in Porto Rico, wholly or in part, from Porto Rican or other tobacco; the recording of leaf tobacco acquired and disposed of in the factories manufacturing cigars for export; the securing and preservation of statistics in relation to leaf tobacco grown in Porto Rico, importation of leaf tobacco, the exportation of cigars and leaf tobacco and the securing and preservation of all such other information in connection with this subject as may be |