November, 1900, nineteen hundred and twenty dollars ($1,920); for twelve clerks at a salary of ten dollars ($10) a month each in each of the following courts: the court of First Instance of Binondo, the court of First Instance of Tondo, the court of First Instance of Quiapo, and the court of First Instance, Intramuros, for August, September, October and November, 1900, nineteen hundred and twenty dollars ($1,920); for an increase of one dollar ($1) a month in the salaries of sixteen bailiffs for the months of August, September, October and November, 1900, in each of the following courts: the court of First Instance of Binondo, the court of First Instance of Tondo, the court of First Instance of Quiapo, and the court of First Instance, Intramuros, sixty-four dollars ($64); for one clerk of class I for the Justice of the Peace of Binondo, for August, September, October and November, 1900, for one clerk of class I for the Justice of the Peace of Tondo for the same period, for one clerk of class I for the Justice of the Peace of Quiapo for the same period, three hundred dollars ($300); for one clerk of class I for the Justice of the Peace, Intramuros, for the months of August, September, October, November and December, 1900, one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125):

In all, for the Provost Marshal General and departments reporting to him, eighty-five thousand, six hundred and ninety dollars ($85,690).

CHIEF QUARTERMASTER, DEPARTMENT OF THE VISAYAS.

For payment for the schooner "Defender," three thousand and two dollars and sixty-three cents ($5,002.63); for additional expenses of maintenance of leprosy hospital at Cebu, five hundred and ten dollars ($510); for the payment of the salaries and clothing allowances of native scouts, five thousand, five hundred dollars ($5,500); for additional amount required for the payment of school teachers within the four districts of the Department, two thousand, five hundred dollars ($2,500); for the purchase of supplies for the schools at Iloilo, seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750); for an additional amount required for the payment of additional civilian employés, five hundred and fifty dollars ($550); for the settlement of back rents for the buildings occupied by United States troops, five hundred dollars ($500); for payment of rents contracted in excess of amounts estimated for the quarter ending March 31st, 1901, occupied as barracks for troops, four thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars ($4,750); for the purchase of coal required at Iloilo for use on steam vessels operated by civil bureaus, five thousand dollars ($5,000); for payments for ponies purchased in Antique Province for native scouts, six hundred and seventy dollars ($670):

In all, twenty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty-three cents ($23,732.63).

FORESTRY BUREAU.

For the purchase of two native ponies for the use of forestry officials in the province of Benguet, sixty dollars ($60).

CHIEF COMMISSARY, DIVISION OF THE PHILIPPINES.

For reimbursement for subsistence furnished native convicts in the Provinces of Pangasinan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Sorsogon, Ilocos Norte, Camarines Sur, Albay, and in the Islands of Jolo, Mindanao and Panay, one thousand, seven hundred and eighty-five dollars and seventy-one cents ($1,785.71).

COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE OF THE ISLANDS.

For regular supplies, nine dollars and fifty cents ($9.50); for incidental expenses, seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50); for rents and repairs, two hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty cents ($251.50); for tax refunds, one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and six cents ($158.06); for transportation, seventy-one dollars and twenty cents ($71.20); for miscellaneous expenses, sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents ($16.25); for salaries and wages, twelve hundred and seventyeight dollars and ninety-four cents ($1,278.94); for increase in the salary of the chief clerk of the Collector of Internal Revenue of the Third District of Northern Luzon, hereby authorized, from sixty dollars ($60) a month to seventy-five dollars ($75) a month, for the months of February and March, 1901, thirty dollars ($30):

In all, eighteen hundred and twenty-two dollars and ninety-five cents ($1,822.95).

TREASURER OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

For the salary of an additional clerk of class 9, whose temporary employment is hereby authorized, from February 11th to March 31st, 1901, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents ($166.67); for the salary of an expert accountant in the Spanish-Filipino Bank examination, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($37.50):

In all, two hundred and four dollars and seventeen cents ($204.17).

MINING BUREAU.

For the employment of a clerk of class C from February 10th to March 31st, 1901, one hundred dollars ($100).

GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.

For the purchase of school books, authorized by the resolution of the Commission of February 11th, 1901, one hundred and twentyeight thousand, four hundred and forty-five dollars ($128,445); for the purchase of school supplies and stationery, authorized by the same resolution, thirty-four thousand, two hundred and twenty-one dollars and seventy-five cents ($34,221.75); for increase in the salary of the property clerk from twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) to fourteen hundred dollars ($1,400) a year, hereby authorized, for the month of March, sixteen dollars and sixty-seven cents ($16.67); for the salary of one clerk, class 9, from February 23d to March 31st, 1901, one hundred and twenty dollars ($120); for one clerk for four afternoons each week at the rate of twelve dollars ($12) per week from March 11th to March 31st, 1901, thirty-six dollars ($36):

In all, one hundred and sixty-two thousand, eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-two cents ($162,839.42).

DEPARTMENT OF POSTS.

For the purchase of three native ponies, two hundred and fifty dollars ($250); for a double harness, forty-five dollars ($45):

In all, two hundred and ninety-five dollars ($295).

PROVINCIAL INSPECTOR, PROVINCE OF BENGUET.

For salary at the rate of four hundred dollars ($400) a year from January 11th to June 30th, 1901, one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fourteen cents ($189.14).

REGISTRAR OF PROPERTY OF CAMARINES SUR.

For the salary of a clerk at the rate of twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) a month for the months of December, 1900, January, February and March, 1901, fifty dollars ($50).)

Total appropriations for all purposes, in money of the United States, three hundred and twenty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirtyfour dollars and sixty-eight cents ($323,734.68).

SEC. 2. 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 26th, 1900.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted March 8, 1901.

[No. 98.]

AN ACT to regulate commerce in the Philippine Islands.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. No person or corporation engaged as a common carrier of passengers or property shall directly or indirectly by any special rate, rebate, drawback or other device, charge, demand, collect or receive from any person or persons, a greater or less compensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property on land or water between any points in the Philippine Islands than such common carrier charges, demands, collects or receives from any other person or persons for doing for him a like or contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, and any such unjust discrimination is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful.

SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any common carrier engaged in the transportation of passengers or property as above set forth to make or give any unnecessary or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation or locality or any particular kind of traffic in any respect whatsoever, or to subject any particular person, company, firm, corporation or locality or any particular kind of traffic, to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or discrimination whatsoever, and such unjust preference or discrimination is also hereby prohibited and declared to be unlaw ful.

SEC. 3. No common carrier engaged in the carriage of passengers or property as aforesaid shall, under any pretense whatsoever, fail or refuse to receive for carriage, and as promptly as it is able to do so without discrimination, to carry any person or property offering for carriage, and in the order in which such persons or property are offered for carriage, nor shall any such common carrier enter into any arrangement, contract or agreement with any other person or corporation whereby the latter is given an exclusive or preferential privilege over any other person or persons to control or monopolize the carriage of any class or kind of property to the exclusion or partial exclusion of any other person or persons, and the entering into any such

arrangement, contract or agreement, under any form or pretense whatsoever, is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful.

SEC. 4. Any wilful violation of the provisions of this Act by any common carrier engaged in the transportation of passengers or property as herein before set forth, is hereby declared to be punishable by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) money of the United States, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, within the discretion of the court.

SEC. 5. Any person or corporation who may be damaged by reason of the doing by a common carrier of any of the matters and things by this act prohibited, shall be entitled to sue for and recover all damages so incurred by him, together with the costs of such suits, and a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.00) in money of the United States to be recovered by the person or corporation in the same action, such suit to be brought in any court in the Islands having jurisdiction thereof.

SEC. 6. All managers, agents or servants of common carriers directing or assisting in the acts and doings prohibited by this act shall be subject to the same penalty as provided for the common carrier. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, March 9, 1901.

[No. 99.]

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "A general act for the organization of provincial governments in the Philippine Islands.'

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. To facilitate the collection of revenues for the existing quarter and the rendition by the Collector of Internal Revenue of the Islands of the statements required in section 18 of the Provincial Government Act, the provincial treasurers appointed under said act shall not assume their duties as collectors of internal revenue until the beginning of the next quarter of the fiscal year, April 1, 1901.

SEC. 2. Until March 1, 1902, the necessary stationery, blank forms, books, etc., used in the collection of internal revenue, shall be furnished by the Collector of Internal Revenue of the Islands upon the requisition of provincial treasurers.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, March 9, 1901.

[No. 100.]

AN ACT empowering the Military Governor and his proper subordinates to organize town governments not already organized in provinces to which the Provincial Government Act has not been extended.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. In all provinces to which the provisions of the Provincial Government Act have not been extended, the Military Governor, or his proper subordinates, shall have power to organize town governments not already organized under General Order No. 40, series of 10890-01-14

1900, Office of the Military Governor of the Philippine Islands, or the Municipal Code, in accordance with the provisions of General Order No. 43, series of 1899, Headquarters Division of the Philippines. Such organization shall be provisional and shall remain in force only until the Commission shall establish a municipal government in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Municipal Code.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, March 9, 1901.

[No. 101.]

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act appropriating one million dollars in money of the United States for improving the Port of Manila," enacted October 15, 1900.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. Section one of an act entitled "An act appropriating one million dollars in money of the United States for improving the Port of Manila," enacted October 15, 1900, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000), in money of the United States, is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available and to be expended by the Military Governor, through the Chief Engineer, United States Army, for the Division of the Philippine Islands, for continuing the improvements of the harbor of Manila, including the outer harbor and the Pasig River from the Bridge of Spain to the mouth, in accordance with the plans and specifications prepared by the Chief Engineer, Division of the Philippines, which have been submitted to and approved by the Commission, and are on file in this office, and which are a modification of the plans and specifications adopted and partially carried out by the Spanish Government for the improvement of said harbor and which are also on file in the office of the Chief Engineer."

SEC. 2. Section 2 of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"The appropriation hereby made shall be first used, so far as it will go, toward finishing what is known in the Spanish plan as the western breakwater of said harbor, and extending the same in a southerly direction so that its end will be in water about the depth of thirty feet at mean low water, and in dredging behind and within said breakwater to a depth not exceeding thirty feet at mean low water, so that shipping of the largest class now frequenting the port of Manila may be able to lie under its protection; to improve the present canal connecting the harbor thus made with the Pasig River, and to improve the Pasig River below the Bridge of Spain and the bar at the mouth of the river. So much of the material excavated by such dredging as shall be necessary for the purpose shall be deposited behind a timber bulkhead and elsewhere where required to form land in shallow water near and along the shore line of the harbor. The said bulkhead shall also be erected in accordance with the said modified plans of the Chief Engineer. As soon as reasonably practicable a channel shall be provided about five hundred feet in width and thirty feet in depth at mean low water from the end of the western breakwater, when completed according to said modified plans, to the said bulkhead, so that