dient until such transportation can be secured from Insular Purchasing Agent, not to exceed fifty dollars ($50), two thousand, one hundred and eight dollars ($2,108).

Salaries and wages, Department of Police, city of Manila, 1902: Chief of Police at three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500) per annum, one inspector and assistant chief of police at two thousand, five hundred dollars ($2,500) per annum, one assistant inspector at two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum, one chief of Secret Service at three thousand ($3,000) per annum, one surgeon at eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) per annum, one assistant surgeon at twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per annum, one clerk class 6, five clerks class 8, four clerks class 9, two clerks class A, seven clerks class D, three employés at one hundred and twenty dollars ($120) per annum each, salaries and wages of captains, lieutenants, sergeants, roundsmen, patrolmen, detectives and crew of launch for River and Harbor Police not to exceed an aggregate of one hundred and twenty-six thousand, four hundred and forty dollars ($126,440), and salaries and wages of special policemen employed during the cholera epidemic not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000), one hundred and thirty-nine thousand, nine hundred and thirty dollars ($139,930).

Equipment, Department of Police, city of Manila, 1902: For equip ment of police force, including shields, whistles, saddle horses and horses for patrol wagons, two thousand, five hundred and seventy-five dollars ($2,575).

Contingent expenses, Department of Police, city of Manila, 1902: For contingent expenses, including subsistence of prisoners, forage for horses, books, stationery, coal, repairs and supplies for steam launch for the River and Harbor Police, subsistence of one employé on transport from the United States, hire of vehicles for employés on official business as a temporary expedient until such transportation can be secured from the Insular Purchasing Agent, not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000), and other incidental expenses, six thousand, six hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-five cents ($6,633.35). Salaries and wages, Department of City Schools, city of Manila, 1902: One clerk class 7, two clerks class 9, one clerk class G, one employé at one hundred and twenty dollars ($120) per annum, and salaries and wages of teachers and employés in night schools and native teachers for the city of Manila, not to exceed fourteen thou sand, eight hundred and eighty-four dollars ($14,884), sixteen thousand, and nineteen dollars ($16,019).

Contingent expenses, Department of City Schools, city of Manila, 1902: For contingent expenses, including stationery, books, printing, hire of laborers for transporting furniture, repairs to furniture, expenses of Normal Institute for Filipino teachers from April 1 to April 30, 1902, not to exceed fifty dollars ($50), and other incidental expenses, eight hundred and seventy-four dollars and seventy-five cents ($874.75).

In all, for the city of Manila, five hundred and sixty-eight thousand, one hundred and ten dollars and seventy-seven cents ($568,110.77). Total of appropriations for all purposes, three million, thirty-four thousand and eighty-two dollars and fifty-three cents ($3,034,082.53), in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be neces

sary.

SEC. 2. All funds appropriated by this Act shall be disbursed in local currency on the basis of two dollars and twenty-seven cents ($2.27) in local currency for one dollar ($1.00) in money of the United

States, except the following sums, which shall be disbursed in money of the United States:

Five thousand, three hundred and thirty-four dollars ($5,334) under "support of hospitals, plants and stations, Board of Health for the Philippines.

Four thousand, eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars ($4,837) under "Transportation, Board of Health for the Philippines."

Eighty-one dollars and one cent ($81.01) for medical supplies for laborers on the Benguet road under "Contingent expenses, Board of Health for the Philippines.'

Seven thousand dollars ($7,000) under "Contingent expenses, Quarantine Service."

Eight thousand, five hundred and seventy-five dollars ($8,575) under "Contingent expenses, Bureau of Post Offices."

Seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) under "Construction and maintenance of telegraph, telephone and cable lines, Signal Service." Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) under "Contingent expenses, Bureau of Public Printing."

Forty thousand dollars ($40,000) under "School furniture and supplies, Bureau of Public Instruction."

Eight hundred dollars ($800) under "Contingent expenses, Municipal Board, city of Manila.

Six thousand, nine hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-eight cents ($6,965.78) for the completion of Quinta market, under "Maintenance and repairs, Department of Engineering and Public Works, city of Manila.

Five thousand, seven hundred and three dollars and eighty-nine cents ($5,703.89) for the amount appropriated for final settlement for the Santa Cruz bridge, under "Maintenance and repairs, Department of Engineering and Public Works, city of Manila."

Five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the construction of four scows, under "Contingent expenses, Department of Engineering, and Public Works, city of Manila."

Eight thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eight cents ($8,999.08) under "Contingent expenses, Department of Engineering and Public Works, city of Manila."

And the amounts appropriated for the Chief Paymaster of the Division, the Union Surety and Guaranty Company, and Metcalfe A. Clarke.

Act 330 is hereby amended so as to allow the following sums to be disbursed in U. S. Currency: Forty thousand dollars ($40,000) appropriated for "Contingent expenses, Bureau of Public Printing;" two thousand, six hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-one cents ($2,614.71) for "Suppression and extermination of epidemic diseases and pests, Board of Health for the Philippines;" one hundred and sixty-one dollars and forty cents ($161.40) for the "support of hospitals, plants, and stations, Board of Health for the Philippines;" nine hundred and five dollars ($905) for "Contingent expenses, Civil Sanitarium at Benguet;" ten thousand, three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty cents ($10,367.40) for "Maintenance and repairs, Department of Engineering and Public Works, city of Manila."

SEC. 3. The payment is hereby authorized of per diems of three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) from February 1, 1902, out of funds appropriated in Act 22 for the improvement of the Port of Manila to the officer in charge of the disbursement of said appropriation, in lieu of all expenses, except cost of official transportation and to compen

sate him for all commutations and allowances from which he is excluded as an officer of the Army by reason of his detail for civil duty; cost of transportation herein provided being construed to include subsistence when the same is included in transportation by commercial steamship lines.

The sum of two thousand, four hundred and ninety-three dollars and forty-four cents ($2,493.44), appropriated in Act 143 "For repairs and equipment of Leper Hospital at Palestina, Ambos Camarines," under the head of "Chief Quartermaster, Division of the Philippines," is hereby made available for expenditure for the same purpose during the fiscal year 1902, and authority is hereby granted to the Chief Quartermaster to turn over the unexpended balance of such appropriation to the Provincial Treasurer of the Province of Ambos Camarines, to be expended under the direction of the Provincial Board.

The Treasurer of the Province of Cebu is hereby authorized to pay out of any funds in the Provincial Treasury the amount due for rent of a building occupied by the Governor of the Province during the months of February and March, 1902, while the quarters assigned to the Governor of the Province were occupied by the Court of First Instance.

The Treasurer of the Province of Misamis is hereby authorized to pay the expenses incurred in the hire of a steam launch for the Governor of the Province while on a visit to the Municipality of Gingo-og for the purpose of organizing the Board of Election Judges; anything in Act 128 limiting the traveling expenses of provincial officers of the Province of Misamis to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 4. All balances to the credit of appropriations made prior to Act No. 330, on the books of the Auditor, except the balances in appropriations made by Act No. 1 for roads and bridges; in Act No. 22 for harbor improvements; in Act No. 69 for the San José litigation; in Act No. 229 for Aun Tan; in Act No. 311 "for the payment of expenses of transportation, both passenger and freight, heretofore lawfully incurred which is not otherwise specifically provided for," and the reimbursable appropriations for the Insular Purchasing Agent and for the Philippines Constabulary, are hereby made no longer available for withdrawal, and the Auditor for the Archipelago is hereby directed to carry such balances to the credit of unappropriated general revenues in the Treasury, and all deposits hereafter made to the credit of said appropriations shall likewise revert to the credit of unappropriated general revenues. The balances of appropriations remaining available for withdrawal, as herein provided, and the balances of appropriations in Act No. 330 and subsequent acts are hereby made available for withdrawal in local currency at the ratio for the current quarter, except such appropriations as may have been made payable in United States currency. Nothing in this paragraph is to be construed as authorizing the payment of any amount in local currency in excess of the amount originally made payable in such local currency for a specific purpose by the act appropriating the money for the payment thereof.

SEC. 5. 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. 6. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, April 12, 1902.

[No. 390.]

AN ACT amending act No. 140 so as to authorize judges of courts of first instance to hold special terms of their several courts at places within their respective districts other than those fixed in said act.

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

SECTION 1. Act No. 140, entitled "An Act Defining the Judicial Districts of the Philippine Islands, Prescribing the Salaries of the Judges Thereof, and the Times When and the Places Where Terms of Courts of the First Instance shall be Held in the Several Districts," is hereby amended so as to authorize special terms of the several courts of first instance to be held at other places within the several districts created by said act whenever in the opinion of the Civil Governor the same may be necessary to the economical and speedy administration of justice, and he is authorized to direct the holding of special terms of said courts, and it shall be the duty of judges of courts of first instance to hold said terms of courts as directed by the Civil Governor: provided, however, that it shall be the duty of the judges of courts of first instance to hold the regular terms of their respective courts at the times and places prescribed in said act No. 140.

SEC. 2. 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. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted April 17, 1902.

[No. 391.]

AN ACT authorizing provincial boards to appropriate provincial funds for use in the suppression of epidemic diseases.

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

SECTION 1. Provincial Boards are hereby authorized to appropriate provincial funds for the payment, in whole or in part, for buildings or personal property destroyed by order of municipal, provincial, or insular health boards: provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting the right of such health boards to require the owners of buildings to keep the same in sanitary condition, or to abate the same as nuisances if not so kept, without compensation; the purpose of this section being to authorize the payment provided for above in such cases as may seem to the provincial boards equitable and just.

SEC. 2. Provincial Boards are hereby further authorized to loan money to any municipality within their respective provinces for the purpose of combatting contagious diseases when such municipality has not in its treasury funds sufficient to combat contagious diseases prevalent or likely to become prevalent in such municipality, and to meet its other necessary and lawful expenses.

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with sec

tion 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, April 18, 1902.

[No. 392.]

AN ACT authorizing the employment of persons at salaries lower than those for which appropriation is made, and designating persons authorized to administer oaths for the civil service board.

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

SECTION 1. The head of any department or bureau may, with the approval of the Philippine Civil Service Board, appoint employés at salaries lower than those authorized and appropriated for: provided, that the aggregate number of employés so authorized and appropriated for shall not be increased.

SEC. 2. The members of the Civil Service Board, or any examiner duly authorized by it, may administer such oaths as may be necessary in the transaction of the official business of the Board.

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. The provisions of this act shall be effective as of April 1st, 1902.

Enacted, April 18, 1902.

[No. 393.]

AN ACT organizing the Bureau of Agriculture and making certain appropriations to meet the expenses of the Bureau.

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

SECTION 1. The following officers and employés of the Bureau of Agriculture are hereby authorized: A Chief of Bureau at four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) per year from December 1, 1901; one Expert in Animal Industry at two thousand, five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per year; one Chief Clerk at two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per year, who shall also act as Disbursing Clerk without additional compensation, from February 18, 1902; one Botanist and Assistant Agrostologist at two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per year from February 18, 1902; one Soil Expert at two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per year; one Superintendent of the San Ramon Farm at one thousand, eight hundred dollars ($1,800.00) per year; one Expert Tropical Agricul turist at one thousand four hundred dollars ($1,400.00) per year from February 1, 1902; one Expert in Plant Culture and Breeding at one thousand, two hundred dollars ($1,200.00) per year from February 1, 1902; one Stenographer and Typewriter at one thousand, two hundred dollars ($1,200.00) per year from February 1, 1902, one Expert in Farm Machinery and Farm Management at one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per year from February 1, 1902; one Translator at one thousand dol