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[No. 13.]

AN ACT appropriating three hundred and eighty-seven thousand and sixty-four dollars and thirty-three cents, Mexican, for the payment of sundry expenses incurred for the benefit of the insular government for the month of September, 1900.

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

SECTION 1. The following sums, in Mexican money, are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the insular treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of current expenses of the insular government for the month of September, 1900, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

For eighty per cent of the estimated value of the work done on the new Divisoria market, from August 1, 1900, to August 31, 1900, six thousand, seven hundred and twenty dollars.

For last payment on completion of contract of work on Divisoria market, six thousand, seven hundred and twenty dollars.

For deposit of twenty per cent, on payment of the work done, twenty thousand, one hundred and sixty dollars.

For wind-bracing Divisoria market, balance due, three hundred and twenty-five dollars.

Total, thirty-three thousand, nine hundred and twenty-five dollars. For refitting and equipping the gunboat Arayat, as follows:

For construction and repair, twenty-one thousand, three hundred and nine dollars and eighty-five cents.

For steam engineering, ten thousand, nine hundred and seventyfour dollars and seventy cents.

For ordnance, sixty-five dollars and forty-eight cents.

For yard and docks, thirty-one dollars and nineteen cents.

For equipment, two thousand, four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixteen cents.

Total, thirty-four thousand, eight hundred and eighteen dollars and thirty-eight cents.

For payment of clerical assistance in the mining bureau, as follows: One chief clerk and stenographer, two hundred dollars.

One mining engineer and assayer, two hundred dollars.

One interpreter and translator, two hundred dollars.

One record clerk, fifty-five dollars.

One helper for engineer, twenty dollars.

One porter (janitor), ten dollars.

One laborer, ten dollars.

Total, six hundred and ninety-five dollars.

For the purchase of books for the mining bureau, one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and ten cents.

For the salary of Dr. Domingo Santos, sanitary officer at Batangas, from May 14th to July 14th, fifty dollars per month, one hundred and one dollars and sixty-six cents.

For the salary of Dr. Domingo Santos, sanitary officer at Batangas, for two days in August, and for the month of September, fifty-three dollars and sixty-four cents.

Total, one hundred and fifty-five dollars and thirty cents.

For the payment of wages and salaries for the employees under the captain of the port at Aparri, as follows:

Cape Engano light-house:

One chief keeper, pay fifty dollars; allowance thirty dollars, eighty dollars.

One second-class keeper, pay forty-one dollars, allowance fifteen dollars, fifty-six dollars.

One fourth-class keeper, pay twenty-five dollars, allowance fifteen dollars, forty dollars.

One orderly, pay fifteen dollars.

Total for keeping Engano light-house, one hundred and ninety-one dollars.

For Linao light-house:

One first keeper, fifty dollars.

One fourth keeper, twenty-five dollars.

Total for Linao light-house, seventy-five dollars.

Total for captain of the port at Aparri, two hundred and sixty-six dollars.

For payment of additional native police force at Malabon and vicinity, from September 11 to September 30, 1900, as follows:

Three sergeants, at forty dollars per month, eighty dollars and one

cent.

Three corporals, at thirty dollars per month, sixty dollars.

Fifty-four privates, at twenty-four dollars per month, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars.

Total for additional Malabon police, one thousand and four dollars and one cent.

For additional amount necessary to meet the cost of disinfectants purchased in America, authorized in original order, two hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty-four cents.

For expenses of the department of public instruction, not provided for by previous appropriation, for the month of September, as follows: Salaries of teachers in night school, one principal, at forty-eight dollars, forty-eight dollars.

Three teachers of English, at thirty-six dollars per month, one hundred and eight dollars.

Three teachers of English, at twenty-four dollars per month, seventytwo dollars.

Total addition for teachers in night school, two hundred and twentyeight dollars.

For wages of English supply teacher, eighty dollars.

Total for department of public instruction, three hundred and eight dollars.

For the chief quartermaster of the United States Army for the Division of the Philippines:

For printing all orders and blanks required in the division, and for the purchase of rubber stamps and such stationery as had not been received from the United States, ten thousand dollars.

For electric lighting and supplies, one thousand dollars.

For the purchase of office furniture, fixtures, hire of interpreters, and payment of claims, four thousand dollars.

For the payment of cablegrams on official business, and hire of telephones, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For cleaning cesspool vaults and earth closets in Manila, five thousand dollars.

For repairs to Santa Mesa Hospital, five hundred and seventy-five dollars.

To complete work on Government building at Sual, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For hire of buildings in Manila for quarters, hospitals, storehouses and offices, thirteen thousand and five hundred dollars.

For repairs of Government buildings and similar miscellaneous items, ten thousand dollars.

For hire of cascoes used as ferries, and water transportation at outlying points, and for hire of authorized vehicles in Manila, five thousand dollars.

For payment of Macabebe scouts, three thousand dollars.

For repair of road from Calamba to dock, five thousand dollars. For repair of road from Bonang to Cabagao and Santa Rosa, one thousand dollars.

For expenditure of the department of the Visayas, heretofore authorized under general order number thirty-seven as amended, sixty-three thousand, one hundred and sixty-five dollars.

For expenditure of the department of southern Luzon, heretofore authorized under general order number thirty-seven as amended, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For expenditures of the department of northern Luzon, heretofore authorized under general order number thirty-seven as amended, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For repairs to military prison at San Isidro, two thousand, nine hundred and sevent-five dollars.

For expenses at depot quartermaster's, in Manila, for gunboats, pony corral, stable, cold-storage plant, first reserve hospital, printing establishment, purchase of coal and mineral oil, and miscellaneous supplies, fifty-six thousand dollars.

Total appropriation for the use of the chief quartermaster, three hundred and fifteen thousand, four hundred and sixty-five dollars.

SEC. 2. The insular treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the warrants of the military governor for the sums so appropriated. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted October 3, 1900.

[No. 14.]

AN ACT providing for the temporary assignment of judges of the courts of the first instance to preside in the trial of actions properly triable in provinces where no courts of the first instance have been established.

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

SECTION 1. Whenever applications in writing shall be made to the supreme court, representing that the petitioner desires to bring an action in a court of the first instance within one of the provinces of the Philippine Islands in which there is then no court of the first instance, and which action would be properly triable in such court, if existing, and praying that provision may be made for the hearing and determination of the action, the president of the supreme court may, in his discretion, if he is satisfied that no injustice will thereby be done, temporarily assign any judge of a court of first instance to preside in the trial of the proposed action.

SEC. 2. Upon the assignment of a judge in accordance with the provisions of the preceding section, the judge so assigned shall have full authority to hear and determine the action, and all questions arising therein, to the same extent and with the same effect as if there had been established by law a court of first instance of the province in which the action would properly have been triable and he were the permanent judge thereof; and the same rights of appeal shall appertain to the action.

SEC. 3. The action shall be brought and the record thereof made in the regular court of the assigned judge, and process shall issue therefrom to the province in which the case would be properly triable were there a court of first instance established in such province, and the trial may take place either in such province or at the place where the assigned judge regularly under the law holds court as the president of the supreme court, having regard to the convenience of the trial judge and justice to the parties shall order.

SEC. 4. The assignment and order made by the chief justice under the preceding section shall be in writing and spread upon the minutes of the supreme court and upon the records of the court of first instance, the judge of which is so assigned.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted October 10, 1900.

[No. 15.]

AN ACT to increase the monthly salaries of the native Filipino public school teachers of Manila and vicinity.

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

SECTION 1. Until the salaries of all school teachers can be properly adjusted by general law establishing a proper school system in the islands, the monthly salaries of the native Filipino school teachers now teaching in the public schools of the city of Manila and in the suburbs of Pandacan, Pasay, Singalon, and Santa Ana shall be increased thirtythree and one-third (333) per cent over and above their present

salaries.

SEC. 2. The increase provided for in the first section of this act shall apply to the salaries to be paid for the month of October, 1900. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted October 10, 1900.

[No. 16.]

AN ACT for the reorganization of the forestry bureau of the Philippine Islands. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. Until otherwise provided by law, the employees of the forestry bureau shall be:

(a) An officer in charge, detailed by the Military Governor from the Army of the United States and drawing no salary.

(b) An inspector, at one hundred and fifty ($150) per month.

(c) A botanist, at one hundred dollars ($100) per month.

(d) A chief clerk and stenographer, at one hundred dollars ($100) per month.

(e) A translator, at one hundred dollars ($100) per month. (f) A law clerk, at seventy-five dollars ($75) per month. (g) A record clerk, at seventy-five ($75) per month.

SEC. 2. In addition to the above there may be employed in the bureau ten assistant foresters at fifty dollars ($50) per month, and thirty rangers at twenty-five dollars ($25) per month, or any less number of each class as the officer in charge of the bureau may in his discretion deem necessary.

SEC. 3. In this act whenever a sum of money is mentioned it shall be understood to refer to the money of the United States. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted October 10, 1900.

[No. 17.]

AN ACT for the reorganization of the mining bureau of the Philippine Islands.

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

SECTION 1. Until otherwise provided by law, the employees of the mining bureau shall be:

(a) An officer in charge, detailed by the Military Governor from the Army of the United States and drawing no salary.

(b) A chief clerk, interpreter and stenographer, at one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125) per month.

(e) A mining engineer and assayer, at one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125) per month.

(d) A record clerk, at twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($27.50) per month.

(e) An engineer's helper and assistant record clerk, at twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) per month.

(f) A janitor, at seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) per month. (g) A laborer, at five dollars ($5) per month.

SEC. 2. In this act whenever a sum of money is mentioned it shall be understood to refer to the money of the United States.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted October 10, 1900.

[No. 18.]

AN ACT appropriating sixteen hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety-five cents ($1,617.95), in money of the United States, to pay expenses incurred and salaries earned, not provided for in the general appropriation bill.

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 thousand six hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety-five cents ($1,617.95) in money of the United States

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