[No.421.] An act repealing act numbered one hundred and seventy-three and so much of section one of act numbered two hundred and seventy-two as forbids the issuance of the writ of habeas corpus against a military officer or soldier who is detaining a prisoner in the provinces of Batangas, La Laguna, Tayabas, Samar, Cebu. and Bohol, or other organized [No. 422.] An act providing for the organization of a provincial govern- in the province of Paragua, and defining the limits of that province [No. 423.] An act extending the provisions of "The Provincial Government Act" and its amendments to the island of Mindoro and incorporating ACTS OF PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. [No. 264.] AN ACT appropriating two million, four hundred and ninety thousand, one hundred and forty-three dollars and two cents ($2,490,143.02), in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the expenses of the Insular Government and of the city of Manila, for the fourth quarter of the year 1901, and other designated periods. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in money of the United States, are hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury, not otherwise appropriated for the expenses of the Insular Government and of the city of Manila, for the Fourth Quarter of the year 1901, and other designated periods. UNITED STATES PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. For salaries and general expenses, fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000); for Charles A. Conant in lieu of traveling expenses from Washington to Manila, under authority of the Secretary of War, one hundred and sixty dollars ($160). In all, for the United States Philippine Commission, fifty-five thousand, one hundred and sixty dollars ($55,160). EXECUTIVE. EXECUTIVE BUREAU. For salaries and wages authorized by Acts 167, 184 and 229, including the extra allowance for disbursing officer at two hundred dollars ($200) per annum, and for two additional laborers at one hundred and twenty dollars ($120) per annum each, hereby authorized, eighteen thousand, seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($18,767.50.) For miscellaneous expenses in the office of the Executive Secretary, and electric lighting, repairs and expenses in the Ayuntamiento Building, three thousand, five hundred dollars ($3,500); for allowance in lieu of salary for earned leave of absence as follows: George C. Hicks, forty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents ($48.56); Edgar A. Rose, fortytwo dollars and ninety-four cents ($42.94); Lewis E. Appleby, one hundred and eleven dollars and twenty-seven cents ($111.27); Ralph V. Bement, one hundred and six dollars and nine cents ($106.09); total, three hundred and eight dollars and eighty-six cents ($308.86). In all, for the Executive Bureau, twenty-two thousand, five hundred and seventy-six dollars and thirty-six cents ($22,576.36). 10613-02- 1 1 PHILIPPINE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD. For salaries and wages, as follows: three members of the Board at three thousand, five hundred dollars ($3,500) per annum each; one examiner, class 3; one examiner, class 5; three clerks, class 8; two clerks, class 9, one additional being hereby authorized; one clerk, class B, hereby authorized in lieu of one clerk, class D; one clerk, class G; one clerk, class I, hereby authorized; two messengers at one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) per annum each; extra allowance for Disbursing Officer at two hundred dollars ($200) per annum; total, for salaries, five thousand, nine hundred and fifteen dollars ($5,915). For miscellaneous expenses, including printing, stationery, furniture, etc., six hundred dollars ($600). For traveling expenses, two hundred dollars ($200). For salary of W. S. Washburn, from July 1 to August 25, 1901, at three thousand, five hundred dollars ($3,500) per annum, and for traveling expenses of W. S. Washburn from Washington to Manila, six hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-two cents ($616.22). In all, for the Philippine Civil Service Board, seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-two cents ($7,331.22). INSULAR PURCHASING AGENT. For salaries authorized by Act 254, including extra allowance for disbursing clerk at two hundred dollars ($200) per annum, nine thousand, three hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents ($9,382.50); wages of laborers, teamsters, drivers, stablemen, and blacksmiths, six thousand, three hundred and twenty dollars ($6,320). For miscellaneous expenses, including rents, repairs and supplies, three thousand, nine hundred dollars ($3,900); forage, three thousand dollars ($3,000); vehicles and harness, eight thousand, seven hundred dollars ($8,700); purchase of animals, nine thousand, six hundred dollars ($9,600). For deficiency salaries as follows: one clerk, class 9, from August 7 to September 30, 1901, and two teamsters at sixty dollars ($60) per month each, from September 22 to October 1, 1901, two hundred and twelve dollars and sixty-six cents ($212.66). For purchase of supplies, including coal, lumber and other supplies purchased during the third quarter of the year 1901, four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000). All moneys derived from the sale of supplies to the departments, bureaus and offices, to the Provincial Governments and to the city of Manila, the purchase of which is herein provided for, shall revert to this appropriation, and all deposits in the Treasury by the Purchasing Agent on this account shall be as repayments to the said appropriation and so credited on the books of the Auditor. For decorations of the public buildings in Manila in September, two hundred and thirty-four dollars ($234). In all, for the Insular Purchasing Agent, four hundred and fortyone thousand, three hundred and forty-nine dollars and sixteen cents ($441,349.16). DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. BOARD OF HEALTH FOR THE PHILIPPINES. For salaries and wages authorized by Acts 157 and 192, including the change of employés in the Division of Sanitary Inspection author ized in Act 229, and the employment of one additional clerk, class 7, hereby authorized, in lieu of one clerk, class 8, authorized in Act 192, an extra allowance for disbursing clerk at two hundred dollars ($200) per annum, seventeen thousand, nine hundred and eight dollars ($17,908). For allowance at one hundred dollars ($100) per month, for one stenographer temporarily employed from August 16 to December 31, 1901, four hundred and fifty dollars ($450). For wages of one porter at seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) per month; one assistant porter at six dollars ($6) per month; and six servants at five dollars ($5) per month each, hereby authorized, in the Women's Department, San Lazaro Hospital, one hundred and thirty dollars and fifty cents ($130.50); for employment of three servants hereby authorized, in the Vaccine Station in Manila, fiftyfour dollars ($54). For maintenance of the San Lazaro Leper Hospital, including the employment of one porter at seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) per month, and one assistant porter at six dollars ($6) per month, and of the leper hospitals at Bacolod, Cebu, and Palestina, eleven thousand, five hundred and five dollars and ninety cents ($11,505.90). For miscellaneous expenses, including subsistence of patients, rent of buildings and offices, and necessary repairs in the Plague and Small-pox Hospitals, the Crematory, the Women's Department of the San Lazaro Hospital, the Steam Disinfecting Plant, the Veterinary Department, the Hospicio de San José, the Colegio de Santa Isabel, the Municipal Dispensary, the Public Cemeteries and in the Vaccine Stations in Manila, Iloilo, Aparri and Nueva Caceres, twenty thousand, eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars and fifteen cents ($20,898.15). Transportation for all departments, two thousand, nine hundred and thirty dollars ($2,930). For miscellaneous expenses in the suppression of the plague, rhinderpest and the extermination of locusts and rats, including the wages and traveling expenses of inspectors and for miscellaneous expenses in the Antitoxine Experimental Station, two thousand, six hundred and thirty-five dollars ($2,635). Printing, seven hundred and four dollars ($704). For general miscellaneous expenses to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Health, including medicines and surgical dressings, deficiency pay of vaccinators and attendants in San Lazaro Leper Hospital, subsistence of lepers not provided for in authorized hospitals, general repairs and equipments, expenses of the detention camp, labor at the Experimental Serum Station, and the Disinfecting Plants, unpaid accounts of San Lazaro Hospital, Leper Department and Women's Department, Small-pox and Bubonic Hospitals, Laboratories, and of the Central Office of the Board of Health, twenty-eight thousand, seven hundred and eighteen dollars and sixty-three cents ($28,718.63). For the purchase of the property loaned by the Medical Department of the United States Army to the Plague Hospital and Bacteriological Laboratory, one hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixty-four cents ($176.64). For per diem at five dollars ($5) per day to the Commissioner of the Board of Health for the Philippines, in lieu of all expenses except cost of official transportation, and to compensate him for all commutations and allowances from which the present incumbent is excluded as an officer of the Regular Army, by reason of his detail for civil duty, four hundred and sixty dollars ($460); cost of transportation herein provided for shall be construed to include subsistence when the same is included in transportation by commercial steamship lines. The unexpended balance of the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) appropriated by Act No. 184 for expenses of "trip to Southern Islands by City Veterinarian for the purpose of controlling and suppressing the rhinderpest," is hereby made available for the expenses of other officers incurred in the same work under the direction of the Board of Health. The unexpended balance of the twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) appropriated in Act 184 for "Capitation fee of one and one-fourth (14) cents per head for two hundred thousand (200,000) rats in suppression of Bubonic Plague," is hereby made available for the "expenses in the destruction of rats" during the fourth quarter of the year 1901. In all, for the Board of Health for the Philippines, eighty-six thousand, five hundred and seventy dollars and eighty-two cents ($86,570.82). QUARANTINE OFFICE. For salaries and wages, six thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars ($6,750); for office expenses, four hundred and fifty dollars ($450). For expenses of disinfecting corps, two hundred and seventy dollars ($270). For supplies, repairs and miscellaneous expenses for launches, two thousand, three hundred and fifty dollars ($2,350). For commutation for quarters for five officers, one thousand, two hundred and thirty dollars ($1,230). For barracks, for cabin passengers, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.) For miscellaneous expenses, including equipment at Mariveles Quarantine Station, three thousand, eight hundred dollars ($3,800). Miscellaneous supplies and transportation for the same, twelve thousand, one hundred and fifty dollars ($12,150); miscellaneous services and expenses incurred during the years 1900 and 1901, five hundred dollars ($500). In all, for the Quarantine Office, fifty-two thousand, five hundred dollars ($52,500). FORESTRY BUREAU. For salaries authorized by Acts 16, 144 and 171, including the salary of one special agent at one thousand, eight hundred dollars ($1,800) per annum; one clerk, class 8, in lieu of one clerk, class 9, authorized by Act 229; one messenger at one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) per annum, and one woodworker at seventy-five cents (75 cts.) per day, fifteen thousand, four hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-five cents ($15,496.75); for salary of one special agent at one thousand, eight hundred dollars ($1,800) per annum, from July 1 to September 30, 1901, four hundred and fifty dollars ($150). For incidental expenses, including the rent of offices and buildings and purchase of wood samples, one thousand, nine hundred and sixtyeight dollars ($1,968). For traveling expenses of employés on official business, one thousand, seven hundred dollars ($1,700). In all, for the Forestry Bureau, nineteen thousand, six hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents ($19,614.75). |