sale, gift or other disposal to soldiers of the United States army of any of the so-called "native wines," such as "vino," "anisado," tuba," etc., which is declared to be unlawful. SEC. 25. Criminal prosecutions hereunder shall be instituted in the Provost Courts against the person or persons violating any of the provisions of this act, and upon conviction thereof offenders shall be punishable for each offense by fine, not to exceed two hundred (200) pesos, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six (6) months, or both at the discretion of the trial court. In addition to the above penalty, any holder of a license herein provided for, upon being convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this act, or, of any police regulation or law governing the manufacture or sale of liquor, now, or which shall hereafter be, in force in Manila, shall become liable to have his, her or their license revoked and cancelled by the Provost Marshal General in his discretion; but in case any holder of a license herein provided for shall be convicted of selling, giving away or otherwise disposing of any intoxicating liquor during the hours wherein the sales of such liquors are prohibited, or shall be convicted of selling, giving away or otherwise disposing of liquors not included in his, her or their license, or shall be convicted of selling, giving away or otherwise disposing of any intoxicating liquor to any intoxicated person, or shall be convicted of violating Section 24 of this act, in addition to the above penalty, his, her or their license shall at once become null and void as a consequence of any such conviction. SEC. 26. The short title of this act shall be "The Manila Liquor Licenses Act." SEC. 27. The provisions of this act shall take effect upon its passage, except the provisions of Section 11, which shall take effect on January 1st, 1901, and those of Section 23, which shall take effect July 1st, 1901. Enacted, December 14th, 1900. [No. 60.] AN ACT appropriating one hundred and twenty seven dollars and eighty-one cents ($127.81) Mexican money, and two hundred and eighty-three thousand, five hundred and forty-four dollars and fifty-four cents ($283,544.54) in money of the United States to pay expenses incurred and salaries earned, not provided for in the general appropriation act for December. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-one cents ($127.81), in Mexican money, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the Collector of Internal Revenue of the Islands for a refund of surtaxes erroneously collected in the Third District, Department of Southern Luzon. SEC. 2. The following sums in money of the United States are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay expenses incurred and salaries earned, not provided for in the General Appropriation Act for December, and for the purposes and objects hereinafter specified, viz: For the Chief Quartermaster for the Division of the Philippines: For the construction of additional go-downs for the Custom House on ground space omitted in the original contract, four thousand, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixty-one cents ($4,177.61); for amount estimated to complete refrigerating and ice plant at Manila, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand, three hundred and forty-six dollars and sixty-four cents, ($178,346.64); Total for the Chief Quartermaster for the Division of the Philippines, one hundred and eighty-two thousand, five hundred and twentyfour dollars and twenty-five cents ($182,524.25). For the Disbursing Quartermaster of Civil Bureaus: For the purchase of assorted red wood lumber, hereby authorized, to be brought from the United States for the use of the civil Department of the Philippine Government for the year 1901, twelve thousand dollars ($12,000);" for salary of additional clerk at one hundred dollars per month, hereby authorized, one hundred dollars ($100); Total for the Disbursing Quartermaster of Civil Bureaus, twelve thousand, one hundred dollars ($12,100). For the office of the Provost Marshal General and Departments reporting to him: For the Department of City Public works: For the completion of the Divisoria Market, in accordance with the original plans of the City Engineer, thirty-two thousand and three hundred dollars ($32,300). For the Department of Police: For the employment of two additional interpreters at fifty dollars ($50) per month each, hereby authorized, one hundred dollars ($100); Total for the office of the Provost Marshal General and Departments reporting to him, thirty two thousand and four hundred dollars ($32,400). For the Collector of Customs of the Islands and of the Chief Port: For the purchase of two steam launches, hereby authorized, twentythousand dollars ($20,000); for payment of secret service force of the customs office for the month of December, five hundred dollars ($500); Total for the Collector of Customs of the Islands and of the Chief Port, twenty-thousand and five hundred dollars ($20,500). For the Chief Commissary, Division of the Philippines: For re-imbursement to Subsistence Department for the subsistence. of native convicts, during the months of September, October and November, 1900, fourteen hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventynine cents ($1,447.79). For the Forestry Bureau: For the printing of two thousand (2,000) copies of the work on native woods of the Philippine Islands, hereby authorized, seventeen hundred and fifty dollars ($1,750); for lithographing of the plates for two thousand (2,000) copies of the same, hereby authorized, eighteen hundred and fifty dollars ($1,850); Total for the Forestry Bureau, three thousand and six hundred dollars ($3,600). For the Chief Quartermaster of the Department of Northern Luzon: For the purchase of native ponies hereby authorized for the squadron of Philippine Cavalry, thirty thousand dollars ($30,000). For the Provost Marshal at Cavite. For the pay of ten (10) privates of the Provost Guard at twelve dollars ($12) per month, and of a janitor for the Provost Marshal Building at twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) per month, one hundred and thirty two dollars and fifty cents ($132.50). For the Chief Surgeon at Iloilo. For the purchase of three months medical supplies for ten thousand (10,000) natives in the Department of the Visayas, seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750). For the Military Commander at Balayan, Province of Batangas: For the hire of three school teachers for the months of October, November and December, 1900, ninety dollars ($90.00). Total of appropriations in money of the United States, two hundred and eighty-three thousand, five hundred and forty-four dollars and fifty-four cents ($283,544.54). SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this appropriation bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section 2 of "An Act Prescribing the Order of Procedure by the Commission in the Enactment of Laws" passed September 26, 1900. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 61.] AN ACT authorizing the construction of a highway from the vicinity of the town of Pozorubio in the Province of Pangasinan to Baguio in the Province of Benguet and appropriating seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) money of the United States, for that purpose. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The construction of a highway from the vicinity of the town of Pozorubio, in the Province of Pangasinan, to the town of Baguio, in the Province of Benguet, is hereby authorized and directed, the same to be built under the general supervision of the Military Governor and the immediate direction of Captain Charles W. Mead, 36th Infantry, U. S. V., who has been detailed by the Military Governor for that purpose, along the general line of survey recently made by Captain Mead for a railroad between said towns. He is hereby authorized and empowered to make all contracts for assistants, labor, supplies and material, necessary and proper for the performance of this work and will push the same to completion by July 1st, 1901. SEC. 2. The sum of seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) money of the United States, is hereby appropriated out of any money now in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to the construction of the highway authorized in Section one hereof. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 62.] AN ACT authorizing the Provost Marshal General to establish police and health regulations in the nature of municipal ordinances for the city of Manila. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The Provost Marshal General shall have power, subject to the approval of the Military Governor, to make and issue police and health regulations in the nature of municipal ordinances for the City of Manila, not in violation of existing orders of the Military Governor or legislation of the Commission, which he shall, after their issue, report to the Commission through the Military Governor. SEC. 2. Provision may be made in said regulations for the hearing and punishment of violations of said regulations in the inferior or superior provost courts of Manila, but the punishment for any such violation shall not exceed one hundred pesos or three months imprisonment or both. SEC. 3. The Commission may suspend, amend or repeal said regulations. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, December 21, 1900. [No. 63.] AN ACT prescribing the method to be adopted in the construction of laws. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. In the construction of all acts which have been or shall be enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, the English text shall govern, except that in obvious cases of ambiguity, omission or mistake, the Spanish text may be consulted to explain the English text. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 64.] AN ACT extending General Order No. 30 of the Military Governor, dated March 10, 1900, relating to customs duties in the Jolo Archipelago, until December 31, 1901, and enlarging its provisions. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Whereas the Sultan of the Jolo Archipelago and the Moro inhabitants thereof have been loyal to the United States, and have preserved peace and order in a manner unprecedented in the history of the Spanish control of that Archipelago, and Whereas the said Moros have, during the past year, suffered severely from loss of cattle by reason of an epidemic disease, in consequence of which Major General Otis issued General Order No. 30, dated March 10, 1900, suspending until December 31, 1900, the prescribed customs dues on the importation of cattle, articles of food, petroleum, tobacco, matches, clothing and articles for use in the manufacture of the same, sewing machines, agricultural implements and machinery for use in preparing products of the soil for home consumption or export, provided such articles of consumption, trade or merchandise, were owned, imported and handled by the native inhabitants of the said Archipelago, and that all business connected therewith in the Archipelago was conducted by and between the inhabitants thereof, and further permitting the Moro inhabitants of the Archipelago to export free of duty all products of the soil where they were solely concerned in person and interest in handling and shipping the same; and Whereas the conditions leading to the issue of General Order No. 30 have not improved, and the necessity for the relief therein extended continued and a somewhat wider relief is demanded: The operation of General Order No. 30, of March 10, 1900, is hereby extended to December 31, 1901, and is enlarged so as to include within its exempting provisions, furniture, lumber and material for the construction of houses and boats, crockery and glassware, wagons, carts, books and stationery. SEC. 2. In view of the emergency presented by the above conditions, and the public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section 2 of An Act Prescribing the Order of Procedure by the Commission in the Enactment of Laws," passed September 26, 1900. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 65.] AN ACT appropriating one hundred and twenty-one thousand and ninety-nine dollars and three cents ($121,099.03), in Mexican money, and one million, one hundred and ninety-two thousand, three hundred and fifty-two dollars and sixty-six cents ($1,192,352.66), in money of the United States, for the payment of sundry expenses incurred for the benefit of the Insular Government for the first quarter of the year 1901 and other designated periods. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred and twenty-one thousand and ninety-nine dollars and three cents ($121,099.03,) in Mexican money, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the Chief Quartermaster of the United States Army for the Division of the Philippines, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, viz: For repairs to the roof of the hospital at Bacoor, thirteen hundred and nine dollars ($1,309); for the construction of dock in Depot Quartermaster's office, Southern Luzon, for the construction of wharf at Tayabas, and for the purchase of supplies for government corral, three thousand, one hundred and forty-six dollars ($3,146); for repairs to buildings, for purchase of lime for the Depot Quartermasters, for rent of launch, for telegraph and telephone linemen, for water supply at Mariveles, for funds for the Department of Southern Luzon, for funds for the Department of the Visayas, for miscellaneous expenses |