Volume 71 · 276
Public Law 85–81
To authorize and direct the Administrator of General Services to donate to the Philippine Republic certain words captured from Insurrectos during 1899–1903.
Approved July 3, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize and direct the Administrator of General Services to donate to the Philippine Republic certain words captured from Insurrectos during 1899–1903.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Administrator of General Services is authorized and directed to transfer to the Government of the Republic of the Philippines, without compensation, the records captured by United States forces from the Philippine insurgents during the period 1899–11)03 and now maintained as part of record group 94 in the National Archives of the United States.
Sec. 2.
Before effecting such transfer, the Administrator of General Services shall cause to be made a microfilm copy of each document contained in such records which the Secretary of State or his designated representative shall select for preservation in the National Archives of the United States.
Sec. 3.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Administrator of General Services such sum, not exceeding $35,000, as may be required to cover the costs of microfilming records and transporting the originals thereof to Manila in conformity with the provisions of this Act.
Approved July 3, 1957.