portation of such officials as may be required by their official duties to go to and from Manila from and to the provinces, and shall issue transportation requests to such officials upon said companies for passage according to the terms agreed on. The mode of payment for these transportation requests shall be made by settlement warrant, upon certification and settlement of the account by the Auditor, said warrants being hereby made chargeable against the appropriations of the respective departments, bureaus or offices, in behalf of which the transportation is issued, and each department, bureau or office, shall submit for appropriation, with its regular estimates, the amounts which will probably be required for the payment of such transportation expenses.

SEC. 9. 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. 10. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, August 12, 1901.

[No. 199.]

AN ACT amending Act No. 22 and Act No. 101, providing for the improvement of 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. Act No. 22 and Act No. 101, amendatory thereof, for improving the Port of Manila, are hereby amended so as to authorize and empower the Chief Engineer, Division of the Philippines, to strengthen and protect the timber bulkheads provided for in section 2 of said Act No. 101 by rip-rap reinforcement and filling so far as may be necessary to make safe and stable the said bulkhead.

SEC. 2. The Chief Engineer is hereby authorized and empowered either to do said work by the purchase of materials and the hire of labor under his own direction and supervision, or to make a contract with another person to furnish said materials and do such work, as in the judgment of the Chief Engineer may best subserve the public interests. In the event the Chief Engineer should deem it best to have said. materials purchased and work done by contract, he is hereby authorized and empowered to advertise for bids in two newspapers, one published in the English and one published in the Spanish language, in the city of Manila, for a period of ten days, and shall not be required to advertise in any newspaper in the United States or elsewhere. Bids shall be opened and the contract let as is provided in said Acts Nos. 22 and 101 and before any bid is finally accepted the same shall be approved by the Civil Governor.

SEC. 3. 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. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, August 13, 1901.

[No. 200.]

AN ACT to amend section 4 of Act No. 185, regulating the salaries of officers and employés in the municipal service of Manilla.

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

SECTION 1. The second paragraph of section 4, of Act No. 185, be amended so as to read as follows:

"There may be employed in the office of the Superintendent of Streets, Parks, Bridges, Docks and Wharves, one chief clerk of class 7; one clerk of class 8; one clerk of class 9; two clerks of class 10; and one clerk of class C; one chief inspector of class 6; three district inspectors of class 8, two district inspectors of class 9; and two district inspectors of class C; one master of launch crews of class 9; one foreman of stables of class 9; one assistant foreman of stables of class A; one foreman of rock quarry of class A; one engineer of rock quarry of class F; one engineer of road roller of class C; and such engineers, foremen, gardeners, storekeepers, carpenters, masons, blacksmiths, teamsters, launch crews and laborers as may be authorized by law."

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, 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, August 13, 1901.

[No. 201.]

AN ACT appropriating twenty-seven thousand and forty-three dollars and thirtytwo cents ($27,043.32), or so much thereof as may be necessary, in money of the United States, to pay various expenses of the Insular Government for the third quarter of the year 1901 and other designated periods not provided for in the general appropriation act for the third quarter.

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

SECTION 1. The sum of twenty-seven thousand and forty-three dollars and thirty-two cents ($27,043.32), or so much thereof as may be necessary, in money of the United States, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated to pay the following expenses of the Insular Government for the third quarter of the year 1901 and other designated periods:

GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

For 10,000 Visayan-English Primers, three thousand dollars ($3,000); 49,855 Spanish-English Histories, one thousand, eight hundred and forty-four dollars and sixty-four cents ($1,844.64); 10 Webster's International Dictionaries, eighty-one dollars ($81); 10 Webster's Collegiate Dictionaries, thirty dollars ($30); 10 magic lanterns, four hundred dollars ($400); office supplies, printing and stationery, ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

In all, for the General Superintendent of Public Instruction, fifteen thousand, three hundred and fifty-five dollars and sixty-four cents ($15,355.64), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

QUARTERMASTER, UNITED STATES MILITARY PRISON, BACOLOR.

For the salary of one ex-volunteer captain retained after the expiration of his service by resolution of the Commission, from July 1st to July 11th, sixty dollars and fifty cents ($60.50); one ex-volunteer lieutenant, retained after expiration of his service by resolution of the Commission, from July 1st to July 31st, one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents ($128.33); purchase of mineral oil for August and September, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($37.50).

In all, for the Quartermaster, United States Military Prison, Bacolor, two hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty-three cents ($226.33), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

DEPARTMENT OF PRISONS.

For salaries of one warden at twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400) per annum, and one assistant warden at eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) per annum, from August 9 to September 30, 1901, six hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-three cents ($613.33). For cleaning cess-pools and dry-earth closets, seventeen hundred dollars ($1,700).

In all, for the Department of Prisons, two thousand, three hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-three cents ($2,313.33), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF CEBU.

For maintenance of a leper colony in the Province of Cebu for July, August and September, one thousand, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty cents ($1,159.20), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

BOARD OF HEALTH FOR THE PHILIPPINES.

For subsistence of patients in the Small-Pox Hospital, Plague Hospital, and San Lazaro Hospital, eight hundred dollars ($800), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.

For cleaning closets at civil police stations for the month of June, in the Department of Streets, Parks, Fire and Sanitation, under the Provost Marshal General, eight hundred and eighty-nine dollars and sixty cents ($889.60), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For salaries from July 1 to August 7, 1901, in Medico-Legal Department, as follows: Two physicians at fifty dollars ($50) per month each, two practicantes at fifteen dollars ($15) per month each, one concierge at fifteen dollars ($15) per month, and one servant at five dollars ($5) per month; total of salaries, one hundred and eighty-five dollars ($185), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For salaries for the month of July, hereby authorized, of four assistant prosecutors of the Courts of First Instance of Manila, who performed actual services without formal authorization of law, four hundred and fifty dollars ($450).

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For F. M. Kiggins, for allowance in lieu of salary for earned leave of absence, three hundred and fifty dollars ($350).

For the following expenses incurred in the office of the Quartermaster, Provost Marshal General, prior to July 1, 1901: Rent of civil police barracks, 4 Calle Gunao, Quiapo, March 1st to March 31st, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($137.50); rent of quarters for two officers performing services under the Provost Marshal General prior to March 31, 1901, ninety-three dollars and sixty cents ($93.60); rent of market site on Calle Real, Paco, from October, 1898, to June 30, 1901, twenty-seven dollars ($27); for repairs to, and and hire of, transportation for officers of the city government for June, three hundred and ninety-five dollars and ninety-five cents ($395.95); forage for native ponies for the city government for month of June, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and ten cents ($137.10). For expenses incurred in the office of the Quartermaster, Provost Marshal General, from July 1st to August 7th, as follows: Cleaning cess-pools and dry-earth closet in schools, police and fire stations, one thousand dollars ($1,000); forage and shoeing for native ponies of the city government, five hundred dollars ($500); hire of transportation for the following offices from July 1st to August 7th: Board of Health, Department of Receipts and Disbursements, Department of Inspection, Adjutant General's Department, Sanitary Department, Chief Surgeon, Separate Brigade, Public Prosecutor, Department of Licenses, Quartermaster's Department, Separate Brigade, Engineer's Department, Assistant Surgeon, Separate Brigade, Inspector General, Separate Brigade, and Department of Police, one thousand, five hundred and ninety-eight dollars and twenty-five cents ($1,598.25); rent of market site on Calle Real, Paco, two dollars ($2); total appropriation for expenses incurred in the office of the Quartermaster, Provost Marshal General, three thousand, eight hundred and ninety-one dollars and forty cents ($3,891.40), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For salary of C. W. Mead, Engineer Officer of the United States Philippine Commission, engaged in the construction of the Benguet road and the location of the railroad survey, continued by authority of resolution, from July 1st to August 7th, two hundred and sixty-one dollars and nineteen cents ($261.19.)

For salary of Chief of the Detective Bureau, from July 1st to August 6th, both inclusive, at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum, hereby authorized, three hundred dollars ($300).

For allowance to Gaspar Zurbito, while engaged in the organization of the municipalities of Masbate, under authority of resolution of the Commission of March 18, 1901, two hundred dollars ($200), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For expenses of J. L. Mudge from March 19th to June 10th including advance pay for engineer and fireman of twenty dollars ($20), hereby authorized, forty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents ($43.88), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For expenses incurred by Municipality of San Fernando de la Unior or maintaining lighthouse on San Fernando Point from December 15, 1899, to July 15, 1900, one hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixtyfive cents ($134.65), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For Thomas Hardeman, Treasurer of Pangasinan, for freight and traveling expenses from Manila to Dagupan to assume the duties of his office, thirty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents ($37.75), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For Ezra E. Green, Clerk Class 9, Department of Inspection under the Provost Marshal General, for allowance for salary in lieu of earned leave of absence, ninety-nine dollars and sixty-six cents ($99.66.) For Lutgardo Lopez, for allowance for salary while working in the Department of Public Works from August 13 to November 30, 1898, hereby authorized, one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and three cents ($179.03).

For salary of one clerk, Class 10, in the Office of Moro Affairs in the Jolo Archipelago, for the months of August and September, hereby authorized, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents ($166.66), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

The appropriation in Act No. 163 under the Office of the Adjutant General, Provost Marshal General, of one thousand dollars ($1,000) "for payment of services rendered by stenographic reporters recording proceedings of military commissions convened by the Provost Marshal General" is hereby made available for the third quarter of the year 1901.

SEC. 2. Funds appropriated by this act shall be disbursed in Insular currency, upon the basis of two dollars of Insular currency for one dollar money of the United States.

SEC. 3. 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. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, August 13, 1901.

[No. 202.]

AN ACT amending Act No. 61, authorizing the construction of a highway from Pozorrubio to Baguio in the province of Benguet and repealing Act No. 68 supplementary thereto.

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

SECTION 1. Section 1 of Act No. 61 is hereby amended by striking out the words "Military Governor" in line 5 and substituting therefor the words "Civil Governor" and by striking out the words "Captain Charles W. Mead, 36th Infantry, U. S. V., who has been detailed by the Military Governor for that purpose" and substituting therefor the words "a civil engineer to be appointed by him."

SEC. 2. The Civil Governor shall have power to appoint or designate a Disbursing Officer to disburse the funds appropriated and unexpended for the construction of the Benguet road, and the location of the railroad survey.

SEC. 3. Act No. 68 is hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, 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 passage.
Enacted, August 13, 1901.