Department of Illumination:

Maintenance of street and harbor lights, nine thousand, two hundred and seventy dollars and seventy-five cents ($9,270.75); maintenance of lights in public buildings, police stations, Bilibid Prison, band-stands on the Luneta, and public markets, two thousand, five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents ($2,577.50); rent and service of telephones, five hundred and ten dollars ($510.00); salaries, as follows: One inspector electrician, class 7; one clerk, class 9; seven hundred dollars ($700.00); material for repairs, supplies, etc., to existing installations, two hundred dollars ($200.00); meters for various installations, three hundred dollars ($300.00); transportation for inspector, forty-five dollars ($45.00); five per cent. of current expense for increased service and new or additional installation, six hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety-one cents ($617.91); increased salary of inspector for the period ending June 30, 1901, hereby authorized, one hundred dollars ($100.00).

In all, for the Department of Illumination, fourteen thousand, three hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixteen cents ($14,321.16), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Office of the Adjutant General of the Provost Marshal General: Salaries, as follows: One interpreter and translator, at the rate of two thousand, four hundred dollars ($2,400.00) per annum; one clerk, class 6; two clerks, class 7; six clerks, class 8; nineteen clerks, class 9; two clerks, class A; three messengers at the rate of one hundred and eighty dollars ($180.00) per annum; in all, for salaries, ten thousand, two hundred and thirty-five dollars and four cents ($10,235.04); salaries for two clerks, class 9, on duty with the Board of Officers on the Preparation of Municipal Ordinances, six hundred dollars ($600.00); increase in salary of one interpreter from thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($37.50) to seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per month, for April, May and June, 1901, authorized by Act No. 102, one hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents ($112.50); for subsistence of fifty orphans at Santa Isabela College, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars ($975.00); stationery, printing, advertising and contingent expenses, two thousand, five hundred dollars ($2,500); for payment of services rendered by stenographic reporters recording proceedings of Military Commissions convened by the Provost Marshal General, for the quarter ending June 30, 1901, one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). In all, for the Office of the Adjutant General of the Provost Marshal General, fifteen thousand, four hundred and twenty-two dollars and fifty-four cents ($15,422.54), or so much thereof as may be necessary. Department of City Schools:

Salaries, as follows: Superintendent, at the rate of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum; one clerk, class 7; two clerks, class 9; one clerk at the rate of four hundred and fifty dollars ($450.00) per annum: one employee at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00) per annum; in all, for salaries, one thousand, nine hundred dollars ($1,900.00); salaries of teachers in the primary schools, twenty-six thousand, seven hundred and ninety dollars ($26,790.00); salaries of teachers and employees in evening schools, seven thousand, six hundred and five dollars ($7,605.00); miscellaneous expenses, including one hundred and thirty-five dollars ($135.00) for the hire of carromato for use of the superintendent, one thousand, two hundred and ten dollars ($1,210.00); salaries in the Nautical School, as follows: One teacher of English at the rate of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per annum; one instructor at the rate of six hundred and fifty dollárs

($650.00) per annum; one instructor at the rate of six hundred dollars ($600.00) per annum; one instructor at the rate of five hundred dollars ($500.00) per annum; one rigger at the rate of three hundred and sixty dollars ($360.00) per annum; two employees at the rate of ninety dollars ($90.00) per annum; one employee at the rate of one hundred and eighty dollars ($180.00) per annum; in all, for salaries, eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($867.50); hire of carromato for superintendent of the Nautical School, ninety dollars ($90.00); incidental expenses for Nautical School, one hundred and, eighty dollars ($180.00); school furniture, two thousand, eight hundred and seventy dollars ($2,870.00); for amount of increase in salaaries authorized by Act 102 in the Superintendent's office over the amount already appropriated, for the second quarter of the year 1901, one hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents ($182.50).

In all, for the Department of City Schools, forty-one thousand, six hundred and ninety-five dollars ($41,695.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Office of the Quartermaster of the Provost Marshal General:

Rent for civil police stations, seven thousand, eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars and fifty cents ($7,898.50); rent of schoolhouses, three thousand, one hundred and seventy-three dollars ($3,173.00); rent of market sites, seventy-five dollars ($75.00); expenses of city morgue, including rent of vehicle at one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per day, two hundred and twenty dollars and fifty cents ($220.50); rent of vaccine station, one hundred and twenty dollars ($120.00); rent of land for quarantine station, thirty-seven dollars and fortyfour cents ($37.44); janitor's services at Headquarters Provost Marshal General, four hundred and fifty dollars ($450.00); pension of Jacinta Brillanti, fifteen dollars ($15.00); nine teamsters for excavator wagons, at sixty dollars ($60.00) per month each, one thousand, six hundred and twenty dollars ($1,620.00); four clerks, class 9, one thousand, two hundred dollars ($1,200.00); incidental expenses for Headquarters Provost Marshal General, two hundred and twenty-five dollars ($225.00); rice for indigent citizens, eight hundred dollars ($800.00); miscellaneous repairs, two thousand dollars ($2,000.00); advertising and printing, one thousand dollars ($1,000.00); salary of one master mechanic at one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month, three hundred dollars ($300.00); two native laborers at ten dollars ($10.00) per month each, sixty dollars ($60.00); rent of civil police barracks, and schoolhouses, for the second quarter of the year 1901, six hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($637.50).

In all, for the Office of the Quartermaster of the Provost Marshal General, nineteen thousand, eight hundred and thirty-one dollars and ninety-four cents ($19,831.94), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Office of the Chief Surgeon:

Subsistence of Metropolitan Police admitted to the military hospital, one thousand, two hundred and fifty-six dollars and forty cents ($1,256.40); one clerk, class 9, three hundred dollars ($300.00).

In all, for the Office of the Chief Surgeon, one thousand, five hundred and fifty-six dollars and forty cents ($1,556.40), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Department of Municipal Records:

Authorized increase of fifty-four dollars and seventeen cents ($54.17) in the monthly salary of an interpreter and translator, and of twentyfive dollars ($25.00) in the monthly salary of one clerk, for the second

quarter of the year 1901, two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($237.50); one clerk at the rate of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per month, for April, May and June, Department of Prison Records, seventy-five dollars ($75.00); authorized increase of $62.50 in the salary of one interpreter in the Superior Provost Court, from February 24 to June 30, 1901, two hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents ($264.58); for increase in the salaries of the Chief Justice and three Associate Judges of the Supreme Court authorized by Act 136, over the amount already appropriated for the period June 17 to June 30, six hundred and ffity-one dollars and thirty-nine cents ($651.39); for the salaries of three additional Associate Judges of the Supreme Court, authorized by Act 136, for the period June 17 to June 30, eight hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents ($816.66); salary of one chief clerk at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) per month and three deputy clerks at the rate of one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents ($166.66) per month for the Supreme Court for the period June 18 to June 30, two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-one cents ($258.31); for increase of salary of the Attorney General and the Assistant Attorney General, authorized by Act 136, over the amount already appropriated for the period June 17 to June 30, one hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents ($172.50); salary of one Solicitor General at three hundred and seventy-five dollars ($375.00) per month for the period June 17 to June 30, one hundred and seventy-five dollars ($175.00); for increase in the salary of two judges of the Courts of First Instance, authorized by Act 140, for the period June 17 to June 30, two hundred and ninetynine dollars and forty-four cents ($299.44); salary of one sheriff at two hundred and eight dollars and thirty-three cents ($208.33) per month, from June 21 to June 30, sixty-nine dollars and forty-four cents ($69.44); salary of one clerk at one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents ($166.66) from June 22 to June 30, fifty dollars ($50.00); in all, for the Department of Municipal Records, three thousand and sixty-nine dollars and eighty-two cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Office of the Public Prosecutor:

Two clerks, class 9; one interpreter at the rate of seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750.00) per annum; seven hundred and eightyseven dollars and fifty cents ($787.50), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

In all, for the Office of the Provost Marshal General, and the departments reporting to him, four hundred and ninety-seven thousand, nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixty-six cents ($497,977.66), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SURGEON IN CHARGE AT SAN JOSÉ DE BUENA VISTA, PANAY.

For the employment of one native vaccinator, at fifteen dollars per month, hereby authorized, forty-five dollars ($45.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

DISBURSING OFFICER, UNITED STATES PHILIPPINE COMMISSION.

Salaries and general expenses of the United States Philippine Commission, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

PHILIPPINE WEATHER BUREAU.

For salaries, authorized by Act 131, for Manila Central Observatory, for the month of June and the third quarter of the year 1901, six thousand, eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety-six cents ($6,839.96); expenses of the branch station at Baguio and at Dagupan, for the same period, four hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-four cents ($466.64); printing and binding weather bulletin for May, June, July and August, forty-five dollars ($45.00); rent of instruments, offices, etc., for June and the third quarter of the year 1901, fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00); traveling expenses, cost of transportation and instruments, etc., for the month of June and the third quarter of the year 1901, one thousand, one hundred and fifty dollars ($1,150.00); expenses of the following branch stations, for the third quarter of the year 1901: Zamboanga, Cebu, Iloilo, Ormoc and Legaspi, eight hundred and seventy-four dollars and ninety-five cents ($874.95); expenses of the branch stations of Daet, Aparri, San Isidro and Tacloban, for the months of August and September, 1901, three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-two cents ($333.32); expenses of the branch stations at Maasin, Capiz and Surigao for the third quarter of the year 1901, one hundred and seventy dollars ($170.00); expenses of the rain station at San Fernando de la Union, twenty-two dollars and fifty cents ($22.50); weather report for August, September, October, November and December, 1899, and January, February and March, 1900, four hundred and fourteen dollars ($414.00); binding weather report for the years 1898 and 1899, thirtytwo dollars ($32.00); extra allowance for disbursing clerk for the third quarter of the year 1901, fifty dollars ($50.00).

In all, for the Philippine Weather Bureau, eleven thousand, eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-seven cents ($11,898.37), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

MISCELLANEOUS.

For payment by settlement warrant to legal heirs of deceased scouts and deceased Philippine Cavalrymen, of the amounts found to have been due to such deceased scouts and cavalrymen, five hundred dollars ($500.00).

For O. B. Troplong, for salary from December 1 to December 15, 1900, one hundred dollars ($100.00).

For W. H. Clarke, chief clerk, Auditor's Office, as additional compensation for services as superintendent of the Intendencia Building, at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) per annum, hereby authorized, sixty-two dollars and fifty cents ($62.50).

For Aldecoa & Company, for increase in rent of twenty dollars ($20.00) per month of the house, 143 Calle Camba, Binondo, used as a schoolhouse, from January 1 to May 15, 1901, ninety dollars ($90.00). For Henry D. Wolfe, for twenty electric fans for the offices of the United States Philippine Commission, at thirty-five dollars and twenty-five cents ($35.25) each, seven hundred and five dollars ($705.00).

Total appropriations for all purposes, in money of the United States, one million, two hundred and twenty-two thousand, seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty-three cents ($1,222,732.83), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated out of the Insular Treasury from funds not otherwise appropriated a sum sufficient to return to the provincial governments now or hereafter organized under the General Provincial Government Act, all the internal revenue collections made between the first of January, 1901, and the first of July, 1901, in said provinces, in accordance with Section 37 of Act No. 133, one-half to be paid into the provincial treasury and the other half to be paid to the Provincial Treasurer, to be by him distributed to the municipalities in which the same were collected. The authority for payment hereby conferred may be exercised from time to time in partial payments to provincial treasurers until all that is due under Section 37 of Act No. 133 shall be paid. The warrants for the same shall be drawn upon the application of the provincial treasurers in the amounts certified to be correct by the Insular Collector of Internal Revenue, approved by the Insular Auditor. In so far as the manner of payment provided in Section 37 of Act No. 133 is inconsistent with that herein provided, such Section No. 37 is hereby modified.

SEC. 3. Disbursing officers are hereby directed to disburse all funds by this act appropriated, one-half in money of the United States and one-half in local currency, upon the basis of two dollars of local currency for one dollar of money of the United States. Warrants shall be drawn in money of the United States, but disbursing officers are hereby required to procure on the warrants onehalf in money of the United States and one-half in local currency, for the purpose of complying with this section.

SEC. 4. 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 or Procedure by the Commission in the Enactment of Laws," passed September 26, 1900.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, July 13, 1901.

[No. 164.]

AN ACT amending Act No. 157. entitled "An act providing for the establishment of a Board of Health for the Philippine Islands."

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

SECTION 1. Section 6 of "An Act Providing for the Establishment of a Board of Health for the Philippine Islands" is hereby amended by adding at its close the following words: "In case of delay in filling the office of Commissioner of Public Health, or if for any other reason there is a vacancy therein, the Chief Health Inspector shall, in addition to his duties as such, exercise the authority and discharge the duties of Commissioner of Public Health until the office is duly filled. While discharging the duties of Commissioner of Public Health he shall receive additional compensation at the rate of five hundred dollars ($500) per year.'

SEC. 2. 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.

Enacted, July 13, 1901.