is hereby appropriated out of any money in the insular treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be paid as follows: To E. W. Vaille, director-general of posts, the sum of nine hundred seventy-two dollars and fifteen cents ($972.15), expenses incurred by him in the purchase and maintenance of two horses, harness, and a carriage used from the 12th day of June, 1899, to the 30th day of September, 1900, for official transportation. This appropriation is made on condition that the horses, harness and carriage now used by him in the business of his office belong to the island government and are subject to the control of the proper authorities thereof, and that said Vaille execute an instrument properly evidencing the same. To Fred W. Atkinson, general superintendent of public instruction, four hundred eighty-nine dollars and twenty cents ($489.20), salary for the month of September, 1900. To L. H. Willis, stenographer in the office of the general superintendent of public instruction, eighty-one dollars and sixty cents ($81.60), salary for the month of September, 1900. To Charles Rocha, interpreter in the office of the general superintendent of public instruction, the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75), salary for the month of September, 1900. SEC. 2. The military governor is authorized and directed to draw his warrants for the foregoing sums of money in favor of the respective persons named, and the insular treasurer is directed to pay the same. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted October 10, 1900. [No. 19.] AN ACT increasing the force of employees in the office of the collector of customs for the islands, and of the captain of the port at Manila, and increasing the salaries of employees in the offices of the military secretary and of the officer in charge of insurgent records. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission that: SECTION 1. Twenty additional fourth-class inspectors may be employed in the office of the collector of customs of the islands at Manila at a salary of sixty (60) dollars per month each. SEC. 2. Two building inspectors, in addition to the present force, may be employed in the office of the city engineer of Manila under the provost-marshal-general at salaries of one hundred (100) dollars a month each. Sec. 3. One additional property clerk may be employed in the office of the captain of the port at Manila at a salary of one hundred (100) dollars per month. SEC. 4. The salary of the chief clerk and translator in the office of the officer having charge of the insurgent records shall be increased from one thousand (1,000) dollars to fourteen hundred (1,400) a year, and in the same office the salary of the Tagalog translator shall be increased from thirty (30) dollars to fifty (50) dollars per month. SEC. 5. The salary of the chief clerk of the military secretary's office shall be increased from sixteen hundred (1,600) dollars to eighteen hundred (1,800) dollars a year, and the salary of the assistant chief clerk in the same office shall be increased from one thousand (1,000) dollars to twelve hundred (1,200) dollars a year. SEC. 6. In this act whenever a sum of money is mentioned it shall be understood to mean money of the United States. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted October 10, 1900. [No. 20.] AN ACT to reorganize the office of the auditor of the islands. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Until further provision shall be made by law, the office of the auditor of the islands shall be conducted by the following officers and employees at the following salaries stated in money of the United States: 1. The auditor for the islands at an annual salary of four thousand ($4,000.00) dollars. 2. One first assistant auditor at an annual salary of three thousand ($3,000.00) dollars. 3. One second assistant auditor at an annual salary of two thousand seven hundred and fifty ($2,750.00) dollars. 4. One first-class clerk and statistician at an annual salary of eighteen hundred ($1,800.00) dollars. 5. One chief bookkeeper at an annual salary of fifteen hundred ($1,500.00) dollars. 6. Three examiners at annual salaries of fourteen hundred ($1,400.00) dollars each. 7. One assistant bookkeeper at an annual salary of twelve hundred ($1,200.00) dollars. 8. Three stenographers at annual salaries of twelve hundred ($1,200.00) dollars each. 9. Three clerks at annual salaries of twelve hundred ($1,200.00) dollars each. 10. Three clerks at annual salaries of six hundred ($600.00) dollars each. SEC. 2. In addition to other duties required by law the auditor shall for statistical and other purposes provide and keep books and records, showing in detail and by tabular analysis the sources of the revenues of the military government of the islands and the objects to which the same have been appropriated and disbursed as taken from the vouchers on file in his office and shall make monthly, quarterly and annual reports of the same to the commission for its guidance in making future appropriations. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted October 10, 1900. [No. 21.] AN ACT appropriating seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500.00) in the money of the United States for constructing an additional crematory in 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 sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500.00) in the money of the United States is hereby appropriated, out of any money not otherwise appropriated in the treasury of the Philippine Islands, for the purpose of constructing an additional crematory in the city of Manila for the consumption of garbage, night soil and other offensive matter. SEC. 2. The crematory herein provided for shall be constructed under the direction of the Military Governor upon any public lands in the city of Manila, available for the purpose, and pursuant to such plans and specifications as he may deem best. SEC. 3. The insular treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the warrants of the Military Governor for the sum so appropriated. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted October 10, 1900. [No. 22.] AN ACT appropriating one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) in the money of the United States for improving the port of Manila. 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 million dollars ($1,000,000.00) in the 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 general accordance with the project adopted and partly carried out by the Spanish Government, the plans and specifications for which are on file in the office of the chief engineer. SEC. 2. The appropriation shall be first used to finish the breakwaters already partially built, and to dredge within them so that all shipping, of whatever draft, frequenting this port may be able to lie under their protection, to clear and dredge the present canal connecting the projected harbor with the Pasig River; and to keep dredged the Pasig River below the Bridge of Spain, and the bar at the mouth of the river. SEC. 3. After the work provided for in section 2 shall have proceeded so far that connection of the new port by a bridge with the business portion of Manila shall be needed, the chief engineer, under the direction of the military governor, shall construct a suitable railroad, wagon and passenger drawbridge across the Pasig River, near its mouth, so as to interfere as little as possible with navigation. The chief engineer shall acquire, either by purchase or by appropriation in the manner provided by law, the necessary land, not owned by the 10890-01-3 government of these islands, for approaches and piers of the bridge. No purchase of lands herein directed shall be concluded until the title thereto shall be examined by the fiscal of the supreme court of the Philippine Islands and be declared good and sufficient, and the terms of the purchase shall be approved by the Military Governor. SEC. 4. Such minor structures, permanent or temporary and such inside quay walls may be constructed or continued, where partially constructed, as will, as far as practicable, give relief to the present overcrowded condition of the port of Manila and which do not unduly interfere with, delay or injure the final improvements contemplated by this act. SEC. 5. The work herein provided for shall, as far as practicable, be done and the necessary materials purchased by contract or contracts with private individuals or corporations. Bids for doing the same shall be advertised for and the contracts for doing the same shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders except as hereinafter provided. When the chief engineer shall decide that public exigency requires the immediate delivery of any article or performance of any service the article or service required may be procured by open purchase or hire at the places and in the manner in which articles are usually bought and sold or such services engaged between individuals, provided the price of such article or service does not in any single instance exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) Mexican. The chief engineer may advertise and contract for the doing of the work prescribed by this act either as a whole or in parts, as he may deem most advantageous to the public interests. In making such advertisements or contracts he shall observe the following general rules and regulations, viz: (a) Advertisement shall be made by him in some newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in the cities of New York, Chicago, and San Francisco in the United States, in Manila and in such other places as he may deem advantageous, for the period of thirty days, specifying therein the nature and character of the work to be let, stating that the plans and specifications for the same can be examined at the office of the chief engineer in Manila, and, in his discretion, at other designated points, soliciting bids for doing the same or so much as shall be specified in the advertisement and fixing the time or places when and where the bids shall be opened: Provided That whenever the chief engineer shall advertise for a minor part of said work which will not involve a cost of more than fifty thousand dollars, he shall not be required to make such advertisements in the United States, if, in his judgment, so doing would be productive of unnecessary expense or delay. (b) At the time and place or places fixed in the advertisement, all bids for doing the work or the part advertised to be done, shall be opened by the chief engineer, who shall award the contract for doing the same to the lowest responsible bidder, provided the chief engineer deems the bid reasonable. (c) If the chief engineer considers the lowest responsible bid to be excessive, he is hereby authorized to reject the same and he may, in the same manner, again advertise, one or more times, for new bids and open the same and award the contract as in the first instance to the lowest responsible bidder, if in his judgment the same is reasonable and if not he shall reject the same, provided that after once advertising without obtaining a satisfactory bid, the chief engineer, if he considers it more economical and advantageous to the public interests, shall report the fact to the Military Governor, who shall, if he considers further advertising undesirable, order the work to be done. directly by the chief engineer, under such rules as the military governor may establish for the purchase of materials, employment of labor and other details. (d) The chief engineer shall furnish, on application, to any person desiring it, all information in regard to the nature and character of the work advertised to be let and shall permit the examination of the plans and specifications and in general shall furnish any person desirous to bid upon the work, such information as will enable him to bid understandingly. (e) No person shall be informed directly or indirectly by the chief engineer or his subordinates, of the name of any bidder or one intending to bid or of any one to whom any information has been given. f) Bids shall be prepared in duplicate or triplicate, if required, in strict accordance with the requirements of the advertisement and specifications, and shall refer to the advertisement and to the plans or specifications. Each bid shall give the place of residence and postoffice address of the bidder and shall be signed by him with his usual signature in full. (9) A bid by a person who affixes to his signature the word "President," "Secretary" or "Agent" or other designation without disclosing his principal, shall be considered as the bid of the individual; a bid by a corporation shall be signed in the name of the corporation, followed by the signature of the president, secretary or other person authorized to bind it in the matter, who shall file evidence of his authority to do so; a bid by a firm shall be signed in the firm's name, either by a member thereof or an agent, who shall also state the names of the members thereof. If an agent signs, he shall file evidence of his authority to bind the firm. (h) In all bids, numbers and prices shall be written in words as well as expressed in figures. It will be sufficient if specifications are referred to and are declared to form a part of the bid. () Erasures or interlineations shall be explained by the bidder in the bid over his signature. (1) A guaranty, signed by two responsible persons, that such bidder, if the work be awarded to him, will enter into contract and give bond for the performance of such work and that upon failure of the bidder to do so after ten days' notice of the acceptance of his bid, the guarantees shall be bound for the increased amount of any contract with another party, entered into by the chief engineer for the doing of such work, shall be required to accompany such bid, whenever, in the opinion of the chief engineer, it is necessary to protect the public interests, and when so required, no bid, unaccompanied by a guaranty, made in the manner and form as directed in the advertisement, shall be considered. (4) The guaranty shall be in duplicate or in triplicate if required by the chief engineer and shall be made out with the necessary justification in accordance with blank forms furnished by him. The guarantors must severally justify in double the amount of penalty of the guaranty. The affidavit of justification may be taken before any per |