Manila, and in the Justice of the Peace Courts, one thousand, one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($1,125); for stationery and office supplies from August 7 to September 30, 1901, two thousand and seventy-five dollars ($2,075).

Total, for the Law Department, fifteen thousand, nine hundred and forty-three dollars and eighty-four cents ($15,943.84).

Department of Assessments and Collections.

For salaries authorized by Act 185, fifteen thousand, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($15,147.50); for emergency clerks for the purpose of assessing real estate in Manila and for the issuance of certificates of registration, ten thousand, one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($10,125).

For miscellaneous expenses, including coolie hire, telephone rental, advertising, office books and forms, two thousand, seven hundred and seventy-nine dollars ($2,779).

For refund of taxes, eight dollars ($8).

Total, for the Department of Assessments and Collections, twentyeight thousand, and fifty-nine dollars and fifty cents ($28,059.50). Department of Police:

For salaries authorized by Act No. 185, seventeen thousand, one hundred and sixty-five dollars ($17,165); for salaries of sergeants, roundsmen and patrolmen, one hundred and eighteen thousand, four hundred and twenty dollars ($118,420); contingent expenses for secret service and for photographing prisoners, six hundred and seventyfive dollars ($675).

For miscellaneous expenses, including equipment for police force, subsistence and care of patients and purchase of patrol wagons and horses, nineteen thousand, seven hundred and and fifty dollars ($19,750).

For salaries of ex-volunteer officers who remained on duty with the Police Department between August 7 and August 31, 1901, seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and sixty-nine cents ($731.69).

For reimbursement to Captain A. J. Burt, for hire of transportation on official business, fifty-eight dollars ($58).

Total, for the Department of Police, one hundred and fifty-six thousand, seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars and sixty-nine cents ($156,799.69).

Department of Fires and Building Inspection.

For salaries authorized by Act No. 185, seven thousand, nine hundred and thirty-five dollars ($7,935); for the purchase of two steam fire engines, two hook and ladder trucks, three chemical engines, four horse wagons, one chief's buggy, sixteen sets of double harness, three sets of single harness, six thousand (6,000) feet of hose, and miscellaneous equipment, thirty-three thousand, six hundred dollars ($33,600); for maintenance and repair of fire apparatus, five hundred dollars ($500).

For miscellaneous expenses, including repairs, stationery, books, furniture and printing, one thousand, five hundred and forty-two dollars ($1,542); for forage, seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and eighty-eight cents ($787.88); for equipment of firemen, four hundred dollars ($400); for miscellaneous, expenses from August 15 to September 30, 1901, including the hire of one carromata, two hundred and sixty-four dollars and four cents ($264.04).

Total, for the Department of Fires and Building Inspection, fortyfive thousand, and twenty-eight dollars and ninety-two cents ($45,028.92).

Department of City Schools:

For salaries of office force, as follows: one clerk, class 7; two clerks, class 9; one clerk at four hundred and fifty dollars ($450) per annum, and one janitor at one hundred and twenty dollars ($120) per annum; total, one thousand, one hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty cents ($1,142.50); for salaries of native teachers, eleven thousand, one hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents ($11,197.50); for salaries of employés in the night schools, nine thousand, eight hundred and five dollars and fifty cents ($9,805.50). For miscellaneous expenses, including the maintenance of the Chemical Laboratory, and the Municipal Grammar School, transportation of furniture and supplies and books, stationery and printing, three thousand, five hundred and fifty dollars ($3,550).

For deficiency expense, as follows: salaries in the night schools, four thousand, five hundred and twenty-six dollars and fifty cents ($4,526.50), salaries in the office force from August 7 to September 30, 1901, six hundred and ninety dollars ($690); carromata hire for the City Superintendent from September 21 to September 30, 1901, twenty dollars ($20).

Total, for the Department of City Schools, thirty thousand, nine hundred and thirty-two dollars ($30,932).

In all, for the city of Manila, four hundred and eighty-one thousand, nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and five cents ($481,977.05).

Total, of appropriations for all purposes, in money of the United States, two million, four hundred and ninety thousand, one hundred and forty-three dollars and two cents ($2,490,143.02), or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SEC. 2. Disbursing Officers are hereby directed to disburse all funds appropriated by this act in local currency upon the basis of two dollars of local currency for one dollar of 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, October 14, 1901.

[No. 265.]

AN ACT requiring persons whom the collector of customs has reasonable grounds for believing guilty of aiding insurrection seeking to land in the Philippines to take an oath of allegiance and prescribing punishment for the violation thereof. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. Any person whom the Collector of Customs of any port of the Philippine Islands has reasonable ground to believe guilty of having aided, abetted, or incited insurrection in these Islands against the authority and sovereignty of the United States herein, or against the government constituted by the United States herein, or of coming to these Islands for that purpose, and who, coming from a foreign country seeks to land at such port, shall not be permitted to land

until after he shall take and subscribe before the Collector or his authorized deputy, the following oath:

"I hereby solemnly swear that I acknowledge the sovereignty and authority of the United States in the Philippine Islands and of the Government constituted by the United States herein and that while in the Islands I will support and maintain the same, and that I will not at any time hereafter or at any place aid, abet or incite resistance to the authority of the United States or of the government established by the United States in these Islands, and that I take this oath voluntarily without any mental reservation whatsoever. So help me God.” In case the person shall refuse to take and subscribe such oath, he shall be detained in custody until the departure of the next steamer leaving for the port from which he last came, and then shall be deported at the expense of the Insular Government. The Collector of Customs may, while awaiting the sailing of the proper steamer, turn the person over to the police authorities of the port where the landing is sought to be made for safe custody.

SEC. 2. Any person who having taken and subscribed the oath prescribed in the foregoing section, shall thereafter aid or abet resistance to the authority of the United States in these Islands or of the government established herein by the United States, or who shall incite in any manner whatsoever others to take up or continue in arms against the authority and sovereignty of the United States in these Islands or of the government established herein by the United States, shall be deemed guilty of perjury and shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor for not less than two and not more than ten years. 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, October 15, 1901.

[No. 266.]

AN ACT creating the Bureau of Coast Guard and Transportation.

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby created a bureau for the purpose of organizing, directing and controlling, island and inter-island water transportation for governmental purposes and for the establishment and maintenance of an efficient coast guard service which shall be called the Bureau of Coast Guard and Transportation and which shall be under the general control and supervision of the Secretary of Commerce and Police.

SEC. 2. The Bureau of Coast Guard and Transportation shall be under the immediate control and management of a suitable person, to be selected by the Civil Governor, by and with the consent of the Commission, who shall be known as the Chief of Coast Guard and Transportation and who shall be paid an annual salary of three thousand, five hundred dollars ($3,500), money of the United States, payable monthly.

SEC. 3. The Bureau shall be organized into three divisions, the first of which shall have in charge the construction, maintenance and

operation of the vessels belonging to or under the charge of the Bureau. The second of such divisions shall have in charge the illumination, inspection and superintendence of light houses, buoys, beacons, light vessels, sea marks and their appendages. The third of these divisions shall have in charge the construction of light houses, buoys, beacons, light vessels, sea marks and their appendages. Each of the divisions shall be in charge of a superintendent, appointed by the Civil Governor, by and with the consent of the Commission. They shall each be paid an annual salary of two thousand, five hundred dollars ($2,500), money of the United States, payable monthly.

SEC. 4. The Chief of Bureau shall co-operate with the Collector of Customs, for the Philippine Archipelago in performing such service as may, in the opinion of the latter, be necessary to enforce the collection of revenues and prevent smuggling and unlawful importations. The Collector of Customs shall have the power, when the public interests require it, to assign to any of the vessels used in the Transportation Division a revenue agent to be carried on board such vessel, who shall be assigned suitable quarters thereon.

SEC. 5. It shall also be the duty of the Chief of Bureau to provide for the transportation, on official business, of all Insular and Provincial officials, their subordinates, agents and employés and of all witnesses, prisoners and guards, when transportation is required in the administration of justice, and of all goods and freights of the Insular or Provincial Governments, or of the various departments or bureaus thereof, and also for the transportation of the Presidentes, Councillors and other officers of municipalities, when traveling to and from the Provincial Capitals, in pursuance of law.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Bureau to co-operate with the Director General of Posts in carrying the mails between the various points in the Islands, under such regulations and schedules as to time as will make the postal service most effective. It shall also be the duty of the Chief of Bureau to see that the agents of the Postal Department have adequate accommodations on board such vessels, when designated by the Director General of Posts for such duty.

SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Bureau to co-operate with the Chief of Philippines Constabulary in the transportation of provincial inspectors and constabulary and of insular and provincial stores and supplies as the public service may, in the opinion of the Chief of Constabulary, require.

SEC. 8. The Chief of Bureau, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, shall prescribe, and from time to time may alter or amend, and cause to be enforced such regulations as he may deem proper for securing efficient, uniform and economical administration of the Coast Guard, Transportation and Light House Services. He is hereby empowered, after proper appropiations are made for that purpose, to make all necessary contracts for the repair and equipment, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, of vessels, light houses, light vessels, beacons, buoys and accessories, and to supervise all work of construction and repair, and to authorize all travel required by the subordinate officers and employés of his Bureau; he is also empowered to prescribe the uniform to be worn; also to prescribe the salaries of the respective keepers of light houses, apprentices and boatmen, in such manner as he deems just and proper, but the whole sum allowed for such salaries shall not exceed an average of three hundred and sixty dollars ($360) per annum for keepers, one hundred and forty-four dollars ($144) per annum for apprentices

and one hundred and eight dollars ($108) per annum for boatmen. He may also supply the isolated light house stations with provisions in addition to their salaries.

SEC. 9. The Chief of Bureau shall, at as early a date as practicable, submit to the Secretary of Commerce and Police a report upon the number of vessels which in his opinion are required for the Coast Guard, Transportation and Light House Services, the type and probable cost of such vessels, the salaries of their officers and crews and an estimate of the cost of their running expenses and necessary repairs and also repair shops and docks.

SEC. 10. The following clerical force is hereby authorized to be employed in this Bureau: One chief clerk, class 5; one disbursing clerk, class 6; one stenographer and typewriter, class 8; three property clerks, class 8; two clerks, class 9; two copyists, class A; two store-keepers, class A; and two assistant store-keepers, class F. That portion of this force which will be especially assigned for work connected with the Coast Guard and Transportation Service will not be appointed until occasion for such appointment arises. The Civil Governor is empowered to appoint as the Chief of Bureau the Captain of the Port of Manila, and the present clerical force employed in the office of the Captain of the Port of Manila shall be utilized, as far as possible, for carrying on the work for the Light House Service and also for the Coast Guard and Transportation Service, until additional appointments are made as provided for herein.

SEC. 11. 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. 12. This act thall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, October 17, 1901.

[No. 267.]

AN ACT amending in several particulars act No. 183, entitled, "An act to incorporate 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. Section 12, of Act No. 183, entitled "An Act to Incorporate the City of Manila," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"Provided nevertheless that the City Attorney and his assistant, and the Prosecuting Attorney and his assistants, and their successors, shall be appointed by the Civil Governor subject to the advice and approval of the Commission."

SEC. 2. Section 17 of said act is hereby amended so that paragraph "dd" thereof shall read as follows:

"To enforce the regulations of the Board of Health for the Philippine Islands, and by ordinance to prescribe fines and penalties for violations of such regulations.

SEC. 3. Section 20 of said act is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"But contracts for completed work of any kind for the use of the city, or any of the departments or offices thereof, involving both labor and materials, where the materials are furnished by the contractor,