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tation, two hundred and ninety-nine dollars ($299.00); for miscellaneous expenses, nineteen hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty cents ($1,915.50); for refunds, including a refund of duties paid on a lost box by Adolfo Richter & Co., amounting to eight dollars and eightyseven cents ($8.87), eleven hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty cents ($1,148.50); for Collector of Customs for Cebu, for smoke stack for the launch "Mercedes," fifty dollars ($50); for expenses incurred by the Captains of Port other than Manila, thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500); for the Captain of the Port at Iloilo for repairs to lighthouse Luzaran Point, Guimaras Island, seven hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-six cents ($718.86);

Total for the Collector of Customs for the Islands and of the Chief Port, twenty-two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and seventy-four cents ($22,999.74).

For the Collector of Internal Revenue of the Islands:

For regular supplies of the Manila Office, twenty-seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and twenty-four cents ($2,762.24); for incidental expenses, thirty-two dollars ($32); for rents and repairs to various buildings used by officials of the Internal Revenue Department of the Islands, three hundred and forty-nine dollars and eight cents ($349.08); for tax refunds, two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifty-five cents ($289.55); for transportation, fifty-one dollars and seventeen cents ($51.17); for miscellaneous expenses, thirty-nine dollars and forty-seven cents ($39.47); for salaries and wages, three thousand eight hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifteen cents ($3,821.15);

Total for the Collector of Internal Revenue for the month of December, seven thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars and sixty-six cents ($7,344.66).

For the payment of salaries and expenses for the month of July, August, September, October and November, by way of deficiency, for rent and repairs, two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninetyone cents ($277.91); for transportation and miscellaneous expenses, twenty dollars and fifty-eight cents ($20.58).

Total for the deficiency appropriations for the Collector of Internal Revenue for the Islands, two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and forty-eight cents ($298.48);

Grand total for the Collector of Internal Revenue for the Islands, seven thousand six hundred and forty-three dollars and fourteen cents ($7,643.14).

For the Auditor of the Philippine Islands:

For salaries as provided by law, including in addition a special increase in the salary of the chief book-keeper for the period from September 15th to September 30th of twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50), and in the salaries of three examiners for the same period of eight dollars and twenty-five cents ($8.25) each, for printing for the month of December, and for deficiency amount required to meet bills to November 30th, three thousand two hundred and ninety-one dollars and forty-two cents ($3,291.42); for salary of the Auditor of the Islands from December 1st to December 15th, the date when his resignation takes effect and for estimated traveling expenses from Manila to Washington, three hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents ($316.66);

Total for the Auditor of the Islands, three thousand, six hundred and eight dollars and eight cents ($3,608.08).

For the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands:

For salaries and wages, two hundred and eleven dollars and twentyfive cents ($211.25); for purchase of material and employment of labor for cleaning machinery at the mint, one hundred dollars ($100);

Total for the Treasurer of the Islands, three hundred and eleven dollars and twenty-five cents ($311.25).

For the Office of Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks:

For salary of one clerk, seventy-five dollars ($75).

For the Forestry Bureau:

For salaries and wages, fourteen hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty cents ($1,419.50); for incidental expenses, one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125); for traveling and other expenses incident thereto, two hundred dollars ($200);

Total for the Forestry Bureau, seventeen hundred and forty-four dollars and fifty cents ($1,744.50).

For the Bureau of Mining:

For salaries and wages, three hundred and two dollars and fifty cents ($302.50).

For the Provost Marshal at Cavite:

For subsistence of United States military prisoners, two hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents ($232.50); for transportation of the Provost Marshal while attending to official duties during the months of August, September, October, November and December, fifteen dollars ($15.00);

Total for the Provost Marshal at Cavite, two hundred and fortyseven dollars and fifty cents ($247.50).

For the Department of Posts:

For regular supplies, one hundred and seventy-five dollars ($175); for incidental and miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125); for rents and repairs to buildings, nine hundred and three dollars and ninety-three cents ($903.93); for transportation, two hundred dollars ($200); for salaries, nine thousand two hundred and five dollars and eighty-nine cents ($9,205.89).

Total for the Department of Posts, ten thousand six hundred and nine dollars and eigthty-two cents ($10,609.82).

For the Captain of the Port at Manila:

For regular supplies, seventy-four dollars and fifty cents ($74.50); for salaries of office employés, launch crews, in light-house and signal stations, machine shops and repair shops, in dredging and cleaning of channel, in harbor improvements and public works and branch hydrographic office, four thousand six hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety-five cents ($4,677.95);

Total for the Captain of the Port at Manila, four thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars and forty-five cents (84,752.45).

For the Chief Paymaster for the Department of Northern Luzon: For the payment of the squadron of Philippine Cavalry for the months of November and December, ten thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars and forty cents ($10,956.40).

For the Philippine Civil Service Board:

For the salary of the Chief Examiner from September 20th to December 31st, 1900, nine hundred and eighty-one dollars and ninetyfive cents ($981.95); for the salary of the Secretary from September 20th to December 31st, 1900, eight hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-four cents ($841.64), for the payment of the force for Octo

ber and November, two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($257.50);

Total for the Philippine Civil Service Board, two thousand and eighty-one dollars and nine cents ($2,081.09).

For the Chief Statistician:

For salary for October, November and December, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars ($875).

For Major I. W. Littell, Quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, Chief Quartermaster, Department of Southern Luzon:

To reimburse him for loss through theft by a trusted subordinate, two hundred and twenty dollars ($220).

Total of appropriations for all purposes in money of the United States five hundred and ninety thousand six hundred and forty-eight dollars and sixty-nine cents ($590,648.69),

SEC. 3. The appropriation for the Captain of the Port at Balanga in the General Appropriation Act of November, passed November 5, 1900, shall be amended so as to read as an appropriation for the Captain of the Port at Batangas. The total for the Department of Municipal Records in the same General Appropriation Act for November shall be amended so as to read, six thousand six hundred and twentyone dollars and ninety-three cents ($6,621.93).

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 22 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, December 3, 1900.

[No. 55.]

AN ACT to provide for wholesome food supplies and to prevent cruelty to animals in transportation.

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

SECTION 1. The owners or masters of steam, sailing, or other vessels, carrying or transporting cattle, sheep, swine, or other animals, from one port in the Philippine Islands to another, or from any foreign port to any port within the Philippine Islands, shall carry with them, upon the vessels carrying such animals, sufficient forage and fresh water to provide for the suitable sustenance of such animals during the ordinary period occupied by the vessel in passage from the port of shipment to the port of debarkation, and shall cause such animals to be provided with adequate forage and fresh water at least once in every twenty-four hours from the time that the animals are embarked to the time of their final debarkation.

SEC. 2. The owners or masters of vessels providing forage and water as prescribed in section 1, shall have a lien upon the animals so provided, for the cost of forage and water furnished under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 3. Any owner or master of a vessel, or custodian of such animals, who knowingly and wilfully fails to comply with the provisions of

section 1, shall, for every such failure, be liable to pay a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, United States money, for each offence. Prosecutions under this act may be instituted in any court of first instance or any provost court organized in the province or port in which such animals are disembarked.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Collector of Customs of the port from which any such animals are shipped, to refuse clearance to any vessel carrying any of the animals aforesaid, which are not provided with sufficient forage and fresh water for compliance with the requirements of section 1; and it shall be the duty of the Collector of the Port at which such animals are disembarked to ascertain whether the provisions of this act has been complied with, and if they have not, to cause prosecutions at once to be instituted by the promotor fiscal for the enforcement of the penalties herein provided. In ports in which there is no Collector of Customs, the duties above provided shall be performed by the Inspector of Customs for such port.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect on January 1, 1901.
Enacted, December 5, 1900.

[No. 56.]

AN ACT providing for the retention in office of municipal councillors, elected under General Order of the Military Governor No. 40, series of 1900, until a new municipal law shall have been enacted and put in operation.

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

SECTION 1. All Councillors in municipalities which have been organized under General Order of the Military Governor No. 40, series of 1900, shall continue to hold office until a new municipal law shall have been enacted by the Commission and their successors shall have been elected and shall have qualified in accordance with its provisions.

SEC. 2. That portion of Article 3 of said general order which provides that the seats of Councillors of the first class shall be vacated on the first Monday of January, 1901, and that portion of Article 8 of said order which provides that general municipal elections shall be held on the first Tuesday in December of each year, are hereby repealed, provided, that nothing herein shall be held to invalidate any elections which may have taken place before the passage of this act. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, December 12, 1900.

[No. 57.]

AN ACT requiring the Civil Service Board to report to the United States Philippine Commission a plan for the readjustment of salaries paid in the civil service.

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

SECTION 1. The Civil Service Board shall proceed forthwith to investigate the fairness of the salaries now paid to all the members of the

Philippine Civil Service, and shall report at as early a day as possible a plan for the readjustment of such salaries under which the salaries paid shall be proportioned to the amount of labor and skill required and the responsibility imposed in the discharge of the duties of the respective positions, and which shall afford opportunity for a proper classification of positions under the Civil Service Act.

SEC. 2. In the prosecution of the investigation enjoined in the foregoing section, the Civil Service Board is authorized through the Military Governor to summon to appear before it the heads of the civil departments and such of their subordinates as may be deemed necessary, to answer questions and to produce papers relevant to the inquiry. The Board shall append to its report the evidence taken by it. In the execution of this act, the Board shall also consider the report of a Board of Army Officers to the Military Governor upon a readjustment of civil salaries and shall submit a comparison between its adjustment and that of said Board of Army Officers, and where there is a difference, its reasons.

SEC. 3. In its investigation and report the Board shall treat the offices, the duties of which are now discharged by the officers of the army or navy under detail, as if filled by civilians, and shall report the proper salaries for such offices. It shall also investigate and report the salaries that, upon the same basis, should be paid to civilians performing clerical or other similar duties in military offices, but who are paid from the Insular Civil Funds.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, December 12, 1900.

[No. 58.]

AN ACT authorizing the establishment of local police in cities and towns of the Philippine Islands and appropriating one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000.00), money of the United States, for their maintenance.

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 hereby authorized to establish a police force for the maintenance of law and order in such of the cities and towns of these Islands as may by him be deemed desirable and advantageous to the public interests.

SEC. 2. The sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000.00), money of the United States, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the expenses incident to the organization and maintenance of the police established pursuant to the provisions of section 1 hereof.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, December 12, 1900.

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