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SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 145. 1917. 963 First class. The ordinary expenses of the legislative, executive, °"“*°““"“· and judicial departments of the State ovemment, and interest on any public debt, shall first be paid in gill. Second class. Appropriations for all institutions, such as the penitentiary, insane asylum, industrial school, and the like, where the inmates are confined involtmtarily, shall next be aid in full. Third class. Appropriations for education and, educational and charitable institutions shall next be paid in full. Fourth class. Appro riations for any other officer or officeis, bureaus or boards, s all)next be paid in full. lgfth class. Appropriations for all other purposes shall next be an . P That in case there are not sufficient revenues for any fiscal ar, "pPu°°u°°°°°“-°` including available surplus in the insular treasury, to meet in fulltlhe appropriations of said year for all of the said classes of approlpriations, then said revenues shall be applied to the classes in the or er above named, and if, after the payment of the prior classes in full, there are not sufficient revenues for any fiscal year to pay m full the appropriations for that year for the next class, then, m that event, w atever there may be to apply on account of appropriations for said class shall be distributed among sand approplriations pro rata according as the amount of each a(ppropr1ation of t at class shall bear to the total amount of all of said appropriations for that class for such fiscal ear. · 4 y No a pro riation shall be made, nor any ezgpenditure authorized ¥mp¤i»-U by the legisliatme, whereby the expenditure o the Government of ‘ Porto Rico during any fiscal year shall exceed the total revenue than provided for by law and applicable for such appropriation or expendi- Lew M hx ture, inclu y avai able surplus 111 the treasury, unless the im · '°°’" legislature ma such appropriation shall provide or levying a zgfliciient tax to pay such appropriation or expenditure within such ca ear. ‘ Src)? 35. That at the first election held pursuant to this Act the v.,%`I§"°°‘°’°”' °‘ qualified electors shall be those having the viglualiiicatrons of voters under the present law. Thereafter voters s all be citizens of the United States twenty-one years of agp or over and have such additional ualifications as may be prescribed by the lggxslature of Porto ,.,,,,,_,,,_ Rico: irovided, That no property qualification sh ever be imposed tlgérggiimicnewm upon or reqplired of any voter. _ nt-mem commu- Sec. 36. at the qualified electors of Porto Rico shall at the next gg¤&¢¤ me UNM eneral election choose a Resident Commissioner to the United States, whose term of office shall beg1n_on the date of the issuance of his certificate of election and shall continue until the fourth of March, ,,,,,,,0,, b, un, { nineteen hundred and twenty-one. At each subsequent electiorii f<>¤¥ rmbeginning with the year mneteen hundred and twenty, the quahfie electors of Porto Rico shall choose a Resident Commissioner to the United States, whose term of office shall be four years from the fourth of March followiigg such general election, and who shall be entitled to receive offici recognition as such Commissioner by all of the departments of the Government of the United States, upon presentation, through the Department of State, of a certificate of $,,1,,,. md .1,,,, election of the Governor of Porto Rico. 'I`he Resident Commissioner wmshall receive a salary, payable monthly by the United States, of $7,500 pcr anmun. Such Commissioner shall be allowed the same sum for stationery and for the pay of necessary clerk hire as IS now allowed to Members of the House of Representat1ves_of the United States; and he shall be allowed the sum of $500 as mileage for each session of the House of Represeptatives and the franking privilege Ewmm_,*___ granted Members of Congress. l\o person shall be eligible to election as Resident Commissioner who is not a bona fide citizen of the United States and who is not more than twenty-five years of age, and who