[No. 30.] AN ACT authorizing an increase of the salary of the interpreter and translator in the office of the superintendent of police for 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 salary of the chief interpreter and translator in the office of the superintendent of police in the city of Manila is hereby increased to one hundred dollars per month, in money of the United States. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on the first day of November, 1900. Enacted, October 24, 1900. [No. 31.] AN ACT fixing the salary of the chief statistician. By the authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The annual salary of the chief statistician shall be three thousand five hundred ($3,500) dollars in money of the United States. SEC. 2. This act shall relate to the first day of October, 1900. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, October 24, 1900. [No. 32.] AN ACT making permanent the temporary authority to appoint a property clerk in the department of education contained in an act passed September twelfth, 1900. By the authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The authority conferred by an act of the United States Philippine Commission, passed September 12, 1900, to appoint temporarily a property clerk in the department of education is hereby made permanent. SEC. 2. The authority herein conferred shall relate to October 8, last. SEC. 3. If the person appointed under and by authority of the act of September 12, 1900, shall be reappointed under the present act, he shall have the benefit of the provisions of section 22 of the civil-service act. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, October 24, 1900. [No. 33.] AN ACT abolishing the office of the captain of the port at every port in the Philippine Islands, except Manila, and transferring the duties of such office to the proper collector or inspector of customs. By the authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The office of the captain of the port at every port in the Philippine Islands, except Manila, is hereby abolished. SEC. 2. The duties now performed by the captain of the port at every port of the Philippine Islands, except Manila, shall be performed at each port of entry by the collector of customs thereof, and at each of the other equipped ports of the islands by the inspector of customs thereof. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, October 24, 1900. [No. 34.] AN ACT fixing all salaries paid to officers and employees in the civil service 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. All salaries paid to officers and employees in the civil service in these islands shall hereafter be paid in money of the United States. SEC. 2. All general orders and laws now in force fixing such salaries in Mexican money are hereby amended so that the salaries therein provided shall, in each case, be fixed in money of the United States at onehalf the number of dollars now expressed in Mexican money. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on November 1, 1900. Enacted, October 24, 1900. [No. 35.] AN ACT authorizing the employment of an additional clerk and constable in the office of the justice of the peace at Cebu. 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 an additional clerk at a salary of six dollars per month and of a constable at a salary of four dollars per month, in the money of the United States, in the court of the justice of the peace at Cebu. SEC. 2. This act will take effect on its passage. Enacted, October 27, 1900. [No. 36.] AN ACT regulating the system of keeping accounts of public revenues and the returns thereof, and repealing certain orders and circulars relating to those subjects. By the authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The accounts of all collecting, disbursing and accounting officers or agents authorized to receive or disburse money or to audit accounts in these islands, shall be kept, and their reports shall be rendered, in accordance with the requirements of the act passed October 3, 1900 (No. 12), prescribing the method to be adopted by the insular treasurer in keeping and rendering accounts of his receipts and disbursements, and the liability of such officers or agents shall be determined in the same manner as the liability of the insular treasurer under said act. SEC. 2. All collectors of subports and all other officers or agents authorized to receive money arising from the revenues of the islands, of whatsoever kind, shall pay, in the kinds of moneys in which the payments were received and collected, the full amounts received and collected by them respectively to the treasurer of the islands, and shall render to the auditor monthly accounts therefor within twenty days after the expiration of the month to which they pertain, accompanied with properly itemized and certified statements of the returns of the revenue collected, showing when, by whom, and on what account paid. SEC. 3. The first paragraph of the executive order of May 3, 1899, reading: "The collectors of subports shall deposit all moneys collected by them with the collector of the islands, and a receipt from the collector of the islands shall be taken in duplicate for all such deposits." And that portion of General Order No. 71, issued from the military governor's office on the 23d day of December, 1899, which reads: "For the present all money accounts will be kept in Mexican currency." Also all those portions of General Order No. 54, issued from the office of the Military Governor on April 18, 1900, and of Circular No. 2, issued from the office of 'the collector of internal revenue of the islands, with the approval of the military governor, on the 16th day of August, 1900, and all other orders or portions of orders which are inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 37.] AN ACT making appropriations for the payment of vaccinators within the department of northern Luzon, and for the reestablishment of the "average" and "reserve" fund of the Pilots' Association of Manila, and for the payment of salaries and expenses of the Philippine Commission, and for repayment of surtaxes erroneously collected in the Second district, department of northern Luzon. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The following sums are hereby appropriated in money of the United States out of any money in the insular treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended for the purposes hereinafter stated: The sum of five hundred dollars for the payment of the balance due public vaccinators for the month of October, 1900, in the department of the northern Luzon. The sum of four thousand dollars, for the reestablishment of the "average" and "reserve" fund of the Pilots' Association for the Port of Manila, as authorized and provided in article 40 of the "Regulations for the pilotage and moorage of the river Pasig and bay of Manila, approved by the admiral of the station on the 18th day of October, 1900." The sum of forty thousand dollars to be paid to Frank A. Branagan, disbursing officer of the United States Philippine Commission, for the payment of salaries and expenses of the Commissioners and employees and miscellaneous expenses of the Commission, for the quarter ending December 31, 1900. SEC. 2. The sum of three thousand, five hundred and one dollars and fifty-two cents in Mexican money is hereby appropriated out of any money in the insular treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of surtaxes erroneously collected in the various municipalities of the Second district, department of northern Luzon, to such municipalities. SEC. 3. The insular treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the warrants of the military governor for the sums so appropriated. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, October 29, 1900. [No. 38.] AN ACT appropriating thirteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-four dollars and eighty-three cents for the construction of a suitable vault for the use of the treasurer of the Philippine Islands, and twelve thousand, four hundred and twenty-five dollars for the purchase of a site for a new market in the city of Manila, both in the 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 following sums in money of the United States are hereby appropriated out of any money in the insular treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely: The sum of thirteen thousand, seven hundred and thirty-four dollars and eighty-three cents, to be expended in the construction of a fire and burglar proof vault in the treasury building of the Philippine Islands in the city of Manila. The sum of twelve thousand, four hundred and twenty-five dollars, to be expended in payment of the purchase money of a suitable site for the construction of an additional market within the city of Manila, and for payment of the other expenses attendant upon such purchase. 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 29, 1900. [No. 39.] AN ACT authorizing and directing the construction of a warehouse on the customhouse grounds, Manila, and the grading and paving of a certain part of those grounds. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The Military Governor is authorized and directed to construct a warehouse on the grounds of the custom-house, Manila, extending along Calle Numancia, Calle de Urbiztondo and Custom-House road, in accordance with the plans entitled "New bodega for the custom-house at Manila, P. I.," with the accompanying specifications, issued from the office of the assistant chief quartermaster, Manila, October 22, 1900. SEC. 2. The Military Governor is authorized and directed to grade and pave that part of the custom-house grounds lying between the outer line of the proposed warehouse and the streets along which it extends. SEC. 3. The work hereinbefore authorized and directed shall be done by contract to be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, after bids have been invited by public advertisement. Authority is hereby given to the military governor to reject any and all bids; provided, however, that should no satisfactory bid be received in public competition, he is authorized to let the work by private contract, or to do the work by government employees without contract. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 40.] AN ACT prescribing the method to be adopted in making requisitions for funds from the insular treasury, and repealing portions of executive order of May 8, 1899. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Requisitions for advances from funds in the hands of the treasurer for paying necessary and proper expenses chargeable to the revenues of the islands shall be made by the respective officers or agents authorized to disburse the same in such form as shall be needed to defray the necessary expenses for three months, and shall be accompanied with itemized estimates of the amounts required, specifying character of expenditures and the funds or heads of the account from which payable. The first requisition under this section shall be for the period of three months, commencing on the first day of January, 1901, and succeeding requisitions shall be in like manner for like succeeding periods. SEC. 2. All portions of the rules and regulations accompanying executive order of May 8, 1899, inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. |