[No. 41.] AN ACT providing for the employment of special counsel to defend claims against the United States before the board of officers on claims. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. There shall be appointed by the United States Philippine Commission a person learned in the law to act as special counsel for the United States in the defense of claims made against the Government of the United States before the board of officers on claims heretofore appointed by the military governor. SEC. 2. The employment of such special counsel shall be for six months, from October 15, 1900, to April 15, 1901, and the compensation for such six months' service shall be fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500), in money of the United States. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 42.] AN ACT appropriating one hundred thousand seven hundred dollars and thirty cents ($100,700.30) in Mexican money, and three hundred seventy-seven thousand two hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents ($377,214.75) in United States money, for the payment of sundry expenses incurred for the benefit of the insular government for the month of November, 1900, and other designated months. By 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 appropriated out of any money in the insular treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the current expenses of the insular government for the month of November, 1900, and other designated months, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, viz: For the chief quartermaster of the United States Army for the division of the Philippines: For electric lighting and supplies, and rents and repairs to buildings, six thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents ($6,839.50); for authorized expenditures in the department of the Visayas, the departments of Mindanao and Jolo, for emergency requisitions during the month, for pay of doctors for smallpox patients at Vigan, and for a deficiency in the pay of Macabebe scouts for the months of September and October, seventy-nine thousand seven hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents ($79,707.50). Total of Mexican money for the chief quartermaster, eighty-six thousand five hundred forty-seven dollars ($86,547). For the purchase of medical supplies for the naval storehouse, Cavite, one hundred forty-six dollars and forty cents ($146.40). For the chief signal officer: For supplies and labor in the construction and maintenance of telegraph, telephone, and cable lines in the Philippine Islands, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500). For the provost-marshal-general: For the department of streets, parks, fire, and sanitation, seven hundred and eighty dollars ($780); for coal for the department of water supply, four thousand dollars ($4,000). Total for the provost-marshal-general in Mexican money, forty-seven hundred and eighty dollars ($4,780). For the forestry bureau: For salaries of six assistant foresters, six hundred dollars ($600); for salaries of thirteen rangers, six hundred and fifty dollars ($650); for traveling and other expenses incident thereto, four hundred dollars ($100). Total for the forestry bureau in Mexican money, sixteen hundred and fifty dollars ($1,650). For the bureau of mining: For the salary of an interpreter and translator from October 1st to October 9th, inclusive, sixty dollars ($60). For the provost-marshal of Cavite: For salaries of janitor, for police for the United States military prison and for incidental expenses, two hundred and seventy-five dollars ($275). For the captain of the port at Capiz: For salaries and wages, eighty-two dollars ($82). For the captain of the port at Balanga: For salary of health officer for October and November and for wages of crew for boarding boat and maintaining harbor lights, one hundred and fifty-five dollars ($155). For the captain of the port at Dapitan: For salaries, wages and miscellaneous expenses, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($37.50). For the captain of the port at Dapitan: For salaries, wages, and miscellaneous expenses for the month of April, 1900, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($37.50). For the captain of the port at Aparri: For salaries, wages, and incidental expenses for the office of the captain of the port, for the Engaño light-house, and for the Linao lighthouse, seven hundred and thirty-six dollars ($736.00). For a refund of an overpayment to the treasurer by W. S. Conrow, collector of internal revenue at Catbalogan, for the period ending June 30, 1900, eight dollars and sixty cents ($8.60). For the quartermaster and disbursing officer of the United States military prison at San Isidro: For salaries, two hundred and seventy-five dollars ($275); for salaries for December, two hundred and seventy-five dollars ($275); for subsistence for prisoners for thirty-one days of December, thirty-one hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty cents ($3,115.50). Total in Mexican currency for the quartermaster and disbursing officer of San Isidro prison, thirty-six hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents ($3,665.50). For J. H. Baker, capt., 46th Inf., U. S. V., to repay overremittance to the treasurer, nineteen dollars and eighty cents ($19.80). Total for appropriations in Mexican currency for the month of November and other designated months, one hundred thousand seven hundred dollars and thirty cents ($100,700.30). SEC. 2. 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 payment of current expenses of the insular government for the month of November, 1900, and other designated months, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, viz: For the chief quartermaster for the division of the Philippines: For regular supplies, for telegrams and telephones, for cleaning of cesspools, for rents and repairs to buildings, for transportation, for miscellaneous expenses of the department of northern Luzon, for miscellaneous expenses of the department of southern Luzon, for expenses of navy gunboats, for expenses of pony corral and of other stables, for expenses of cold-storage plant, for expenses of first reserve hospital, for the purchase of coal and mineral oil and for miscellaneous expenses and to meet emergency requisitions during the month, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars and seventy-five cents ($139,956.75). For the disbursing quartermaster of civil bureaus: For authorized salaries for the judges, officers, and employees of the court of first instance at Vigan, the court of justice at Vigan, the court of first instance at Dagupan, the court of justice at Dagupan, the court of first instance at Tuguegarao, the court of justice at Tuguegarao, the court of first instance at Bacolor, the court of justice at Bacolor, the court of first instance at Iloilo, the court of justice at Iloilo, the court of first instance at Cebu, the court of justice at Cebu, the court of first instance at Cavite, the court of justice at Cavite, the court of first instance at San Isidro, the court of justice at San Isidro, the court of first instance at Laoag, the court of justice at Laoag, the court of first instance at Balanga, the court of justice at Balanga, the sum of four thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and fifty cents ($4,330.50). For pay of civil employees in the offices of the following officers: The board of officers on claims, one hundred and sixty dollars ($160); chief quartermaster, forty dollars (840); assistant to chief quartermaster, two hundred thirty-three dollars and fifty cents ($233.50); judge-advocate, seven hundred twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($727.50); disbursing quartermaster, four hundred eighty-nine dollars and seventeen cents ($489.17); adjutant-general, seven hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixty-seven cents ($776.67); military secretary, eleven hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents ($1,116.66); officer in charge of insurgent records, two hundred eighty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents ($288.33); the supreme court, ten hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty-seven cents ($1,094.67); inspectorgeneral, two hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents ($241.67). For payment of salaries, claims, and miscellaneous bills impossible to itemize, one thousand dollars ($1,000). For the pay of laborers for the disbursing quartermaster, two hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-two cents ($224.72); for janitors and four assistant janitors at intendencia building and miscellaneous expenses, forty-one dollars and seventy-five cents ($41.75); for supplies for issue and miscellaneous expenses impossible to itemize, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000); for rents and repairs of buildings in Manila and elsewhere, four hundred and ninety dollars ($490). Total for the disbursing quartermaster of civil bureaus, thirty-six thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars and fourteen cents ($36,255.14). For the medical supply depot of Manila: For laborers, three hundred dollars ($300). For medical supply depot, department of northern Luzon: For supplies, two hundred and sixty-five dollars ($265); for eighty vaccinators, at fifteen dollars per month, twelve hundred dollars ($1,200). Total for medical supply depot of northern Luzon, fourteen hundred and sixty-five dollars ($1,465). For the medical supply depot, southern Luzon: For eighty vaccinators, at fifteen dollars per month, twelve hundred dollars ($1,200); for medical supplies for indigent sick natives, fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500). Total for medical supply depot of southern Luzon, twenty-seven hundred dollars ($2,700). For chief ordnance officer: For clerical hire, labor, and materials in repairs, four hundred and ninety-eight dollars and seventy-five cents ($498.75). For the chief signal officer: For supplies and labor in the construction and maintenance of telegraph, telephone and cable lines in the Philippine Islands, fifteen hundred and ninety dollars ($1,590). For the office of the provost-marshal-general and departments reporting to him: For department of fire, streets, parks, and sanitation: For salaries and wages, including herein an increase of thirty dollars a month in the salary of the inspector of the district of Santa Cruz, Quiapo, and San Miguel, fourteen thousand and five dollars and seventyfive cents ($14,005.75); for horseshoeing, two hundred and twentynine dollars and fifty cents ($229.50); for road material, opening, cleaning and repairing of drains and sewers, repairs to steam tugs, garbage scows and bancas, tools, supplies and other expenses of fire stations, street cleaning and sanitation, thirteen thousand, three hundred and seventy-five dollars ($13,375); for hire of transportation, seven hundred and five dollars ($705); for removing night soil from city markets, one hundred dollars ($100); for constructing new luneta, thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500). Total for the department of fire, streets, parks, and sanitation, thirtyone thousand, nine hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty-five cents ($31,915.25). For the department of illuminations and telephones, three thousand, seven hundred and ninety dollars and twenty-seven cents ($3,790.27). For the department of municipal records: For salaries of the judges of all branches of the supreme court, fifteen hundred and twenty dollars and eighty-two cents ($1,520.82); for salaries of the attorney-general's department, thirteen hundred and six dollars and sixty-two cents ($1,306.62); for the employees of the civil and criminal branches of the general offices and of the medico-legal department of the supreme court, eleven hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents ($1,134.50); for the salaries of the judges, justices of the peace, bailiffs, and other employees of the courts of first instance of Binondo, Tondo, Quiapo, Intramuros, of the superior provost court and of the inferior provost court, including herein monthly salaries for new employees whose employment is hereby authorized as follows: Sixteen copyists, four for each justice of the peace in Manila, at ten dollars ($10) a month each; eight bailiffs, two for each justice of the peace in Manila, at six dollars ($6) a month each; and two interpreters, at forty-one dollars and sixty-six cents ($41.66) each, fourteen hundred and seventy-five dollars and ninety-nine cents ($1,475.99); for the sala ries of sixteen copyists, at ten dollars ($10) a month each, and eight bailiffs, at six dollars ($6) a month each, for three months, who in ourts of the justices of the peace of Manila, though without authority of law, rendered regular public service as such during the months of August, September, and October, six hundred and twenty-four dollars. (5624); for salaries of the collector of taxes and two clerks, one hundred and thirty dollars ($130); for the salary of clerks and other employees of the department of municipal records, stationery and contingent fund, two hundred and fifty-five dollars ($255); for the salary of the clerks of the department of prison records, seventy-five dollars ($75); for the salary of a clerk in the department of receipts and disbursements, one hundred dollars ($100). Total for the department of municipal records, five thousand, seven hundred and six dollars and sixty-one cents ($5,706.61). For the department of water supply: For salaries and wages, seventeen hundred and seventy-one dollars ($1,771); for maintenance, supplies, and office expenses, one hundred and seventy-five dollars ($175); Total for the department of water supply, nineteen hundred and forty-six dollars ($1,946). For the department of city public works: For salaries and wages, nine hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents ($907.50); for office expense, twenty-five dollars ($25); for widening the Bridge of Spain, four thousand dollars ($4,000); for repairing city bridges, five hundred dollars ($500); for repair of Santolan road, one hundred and fifty dollars ($150); for repairing Luneta sea wall, one thousand dollars ($1,000); for the Divisoria market, five hundred dollars ($500); for map of Manila, one hundred dollars ($100); for the construction of Santa Cruz Bridge, five hundred dollars ($500); for the maintenance of stock, twenty-five dollars ($25); Total for the department of city public works, seven thousand, seven hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents ($7,707.50). For the department of cemeteries: For salaries and wages, rent of keepers' houses, burial of paupers, materials, and miscellaneous expense, three hundred and four dollars and fifty cents ($304.50). For the department of police: For salaries and wages of the officers and privates of the Manila police force, for interpreters and other employés, for medical supplies and contingent fund, for additional detectives, hereby authorizedone detective at one hundred dollars per month, two detectives at twenty-five dollars per month, and one detective at fifteen dollars per month-eleven thousand, two hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents ($11,242.50). For the department of secret service: For salaries and wages, pension and miscellaneous expenses, six hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents ($672.50). For the department of city schools in Manila: For salaries and expenses of the city schools of Manila, five thousand, three hundred and sixty-five dollars and eighty-three and one-half cents ($5,365.834); for salaries in the nautical school, three hundred and thirty-five dollars and eighty-three cents ($335.83); for salaries in the superintendent's office, three hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents ($372.50); for books, stationery, and incidental expenses, |