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For the auditor for the islands:

For salaries and wages, two thousand, four hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty cents.

For printing, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Total of United States money for the auditor of the islands, three thousand, two hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents. For the office of the treasurer:

For salaries and wages, three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and ninety-two cents.

For the office of patents, copyrights, and trade-marks:

For clerk hire, fifty dollars.

For the forestry bureau:

For authorized salaries and wages, eight hundred and forty-five dollars and twenty-five cents.

For incidental expenses for September, fifty dollars.

For incidental expenses for October, one hundred dollars.

Total of United States money for the forestry bureau, nine hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-five cents.

For the mining bureau:

For authorized salaries and wages, three hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents.

For post-office box rent, four dollars.

Total of United States money for the mining bureau, three hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents.

For the provost-marshal at Cavite:

For subsistence for military prisoners, three hundred and fortyeight dollars and seventy-five cents.

For repairs, nine dollars and forty-four cents.

Total of United States money for the provost-marshal at Cavite, three hundred and fifty-eight dollars and nineteen cents.

For the director-general of posts:

For supplies, furniture, transit charges, stamps, rent, and repairs, one thousand, six hundred and twenty dollars and twenty-three cents. For transportation, two hundred dollars.

For salaries, eight thousand, nine hundred and thirty dollars and eighty-seven cents.

For miscellaneous expenses, fifteen dollars.

For payment of outgoing foreign mails, for quarter ending September 30, 1900, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Total of United States money for the director-general of posts, eleven thousand, five hundred and sixteen dollars and ten cents.

For the captain of the port at Manila:

For office supplies, advertising, repairs; for light-house and signal stations, machine shops; public works and floating property, branch hydrographic office; office of launches and machine shop mechanical departments, three thousand dollars.

For salaries of office employees, one thousand and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents.

Wages of crews for launches, four hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty cents.

Disbursements for light-houses and signal stations, one thousand

dollars.

Labor in machine shops, one thousand and sixty-four dollars and fifty-four cents.

Dredging and clearing channel, dry dock, etc., one thousand, one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

Total of United States money for the captain of the port at Manila, seven thousand, seven hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents.

For the chief quartermaster, third district, department of southern Luzon:

For repair of Tribunal Building at San José de Lagonoy, building now used as barracks, one thousand, two hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty cents.

Total appropriation of United States money, three hundred and sixty-four thousand, five hundred and ninety-two dollars and twentyfour cents.

SEC. 3. The insular treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay, in the money by this act provided, the warrants of the Military Governor for the sums so appropriated.

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 of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September 26, 1900.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect on its

Enacted, October 15, 1900.

[No. 24.]

passage.

AN ACT establishing a court of first instance for the province of Bohol. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission that:

SECTION 1. A court of first instance, of the third class, for the province of Bohol, is hereby established at Tagbilaran, in the island of Bohol, with the same attributes and connection with the supreme court of the Philippine Islands as the courts of first instance in the province of Manila.

SEC. 2. A clerk and the necessary subordinate officials of this court shall be appointed by the judge thereof.

SEC. 3. The duly appointed attorney-general for said province is hereby authorized to perform the duties of registrar of property pending the appointment of such registrar for said province.

SEC. 4. The clerk of this court is hereby authorized to perform the duties of notary public pending the appointment of a notary public for said province.

SEC. 5. For maintenance of said court the following salaries are hereby provided:

For the judge, at the rate of $2,250.00 a year.

For the attorney-general of the province, at the rate of $1,800.00 a year;

For an interpreter, at the rate of $72.00 a year;

For a clerk, at the rate of $1,200.00 a year;

All payable in Mexican money or its equivalent in United States

money.

SEC. 6. Before entering upon the performance of his duties, each of the officers named in the last preceding section shall take the oath of office prescribed in General Orders, No. 20, issued from the office of the United States Military Governor of the Philippine Islands, series

of 1899. The oath of office to the judge shall be administered by the commanding officer of the United States forces on the island of Bohol. The judge, upon qualifying, is authorized to administer the oath of office to the other officials named in the preceding section. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, October 17, 1900.

[No. 25.]

AN ACT providing for the appointment and removal of subordinate officers and employees in certain departments and bureaus of the government 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. All appointments to, and removals from, subordinate civil positions authorized by law in the offices of―

(a) The military secretary;

(b) The treasurer for the islands;

(e) The auditor for the islands;

(d) The collector of customs for the islands;

The collector of inland revenue for the islands;

(f) The director-general of posts for the islands; The civil-service board;

The bureau of forestry;
The bureau of mines;

The bureau of statistics;

(k) The general superintendent of public instruction;

Wardens of penitentiaries and prisons;

(m) The provost-marshal-general;

(n) The captain of the port;

shall be made by the respective heads of such offices, subject to the approval of the Military Governor.

SEC. 2. All appointments and removals made under the previous section shall be reported by the Military Governor to the Commission. SEC. 3. Nothing herein shall be construed to take any of the appointments to be made to positions described in section one out of the provisions of the civil-service act, or to prevent the Commission from revoking action taken under section one, or making appointments to such positions, or from making removals therefrom of its own motion under the general powers conferred upon it by the instructions of the President of the United States.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, October 17, 1900.

[No. 26.]

AN ACT authorizing the employment by the Philippine civil-service board of certain employees and empowering the board to fix their salaries within an aggregate limit.

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

SECTION 1. The Philippine civil-service board is hereby authorized to employ, subject to the limitations of the civil-service act and of an

act entitled "An act providing for the appointment and removal of subordinate officers and employees in certain departments and bureaus of the government of the Philippine Islands," passed October 17, 1900, two examiners, one Spanish interpreter, two stenographers and typewriters, two clerks, and two messengers, and to fix their salaries; provided, the aggregate amount of such salaries shall not exceed in one year eight thousand, seven hundred dollars ($8,700) in the money of the United States.

SEC. 2. Upon the appointment of such employees and the fixing of their salaries the Philippine civil-service board shall certify its action through the Military Governor to the Commission.

SEC. 3. The Philippine civil-service board is authorized to incur such necessary expense for the printing of circulars, pamphlets, examination papers and other documents as the board shall deem proper, subject to the approval of the Military Governor. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, October 17, 1900.

[No. 27.]

AN ACT authorizing an increase of the clerical force in the office of the disbursing quartermaster, civil bureaus.

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

SECTION 1. Authority is hereby given for the employment of two additional clerks in the office of the disbursing quartermaster, civil bureaus, one at a salary of one hundred dollars per month, and one at a salary of fifty dollars per month, in money of the United States. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, October 24, 1900.

[No. 28.]

AN ACT establishing a court of first instance, for the provinces of La Union and

Benguet.

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

SECTION 1. A court of first instance of the second class for the provinces of La Union and Benguet is hereby established at San Fernando, in the province of La Union, with the same attributes and connection with the supreme court of the Philippine Islands as the courts of first instance in the province of Manila.

SEC. 2. A clerk and the necessary subordinate officials of this court shall be appointed by the judge thereof.

SEC. 3. The duly appointed attorney-general for said province is hereby authorized to perform the duties of registrar of property pending the appointment of such registrar for said provinces.

SEC. 4. The clerk of this court is hereby authorized to perform the duties of notary public pending the appointment of a notary public for said provinces.

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SEC. 5. For maintenance of the court, the following salaries are hereby provided:

For the judge, at the rate of $1,350.00 a year.

For the attorney-general of the province, at the rate of $1,125.00 a

year.

For an interpreter, at the rate of $43.20 a year.

For a clerk, at the rate of $600.00 a year.

All payable in United States money.

SEC. 6. Before entering upon the performance of his duties, each of the officers named in the last preceding section shall take the oath of office prescribed in General Orders, No. 20, issued from the office of the United States Military Governor for the Philippine Islands, series of 1899. The oath of office to the judge may be administered by the commanding officer of the United States forces in the province of La Union, or by a judge of the supreme court of the Philippine Islands. The judge, upon qualifying, is authorized to administer the oath of office to the other officials named in the preceding section.

SEC. 7. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, October 24, 1900.

[No. 29.]

AN ACT appropriating six hundred and forty-six dollars and eighty-eight cents for the payment of salary and expenses of Frank M. Kiggins, from July 10 to September 20, 1900, inclusive, and the sum of six hundred and twenty dollars and seventy cents for the payment of salary and expenses of Carl C. Plehn, from the 1st day of August to the 30th day of September, 1900, inclusive, both in money of the United States.

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

SECTION 1. The sum of six hundred and forty-six dollars and eightyeight cents in money of the United States, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the insular treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying Frank M. Kiggins, assistant to the Commission in organization of the civil service, for services rendered and expenses incurred by him under the direction of the Commission preliminary to formally assuming the duties of a member of the civil-service board for the period from July 10 to September 20, 1900, inclusive.

SEC. 2. The sum of six hundred and twenty dollars and seventy cents in money of the United States, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the insular treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying Carl C. Plehn, statistician, for services rendered and expenses incurred by him under the direction of the Commission for the period from August 1 to September 30, 1900, inclusive.

SEC. 3. The military governor is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants in favor of the persons named in the preceding sections, for the respective sums therein set forth, and the insular treasurer is directed to pay the same.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, October 24, 1900.

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