lars ($1,000.00) per year; one Clerk class C; one Messenger at one hundred and eighty dollars ($180.00) per year; one Janitor at ninety dollars ($90.00) per year; all in money of the United States.

SEC. 2. The following sums in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated for the purposes named out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated:

(a) Salaries for the Bureau of Agriculture for the fiscal year, 1902, seven thousand, three hundred and twenty dollars and twenty-eight cents ($7,320.28).

(b) For wages of temporary clerical and technical employés, special agents, skilled and unskilled laborers, for the quarter ending June 30, 1902, three thousand, two hundred dollars ($3,200.00).

(c) For contingent expenses including the collecting or purchasing of seeds, roots, bulbs and plants for distribution or experimental purposes; photographs and illustrations for reports; for printing of bulletins and other publications; for the erection of the necessary buildings upon the experimental stations and farms; for the purchase of necessary working animals, harnesses, wagons, farm machinery and tools; for the employment of laborers on experimental stations and farms; for office furniture and supplies, scientific instruments, books and periodicals; for repairs, transportation, freight and express charges, seven thousand, eight hundred dollars ($7,800.00).

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.

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is 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, April 30, 1902.

[No. 394.]

AN ACT providing for the closing of the port of Siassi, district of Jolo, as a port of entry, and for the opening of the port of Aparri, district of Manila, and amending acts Nos. 355 and 367 in certain particulars.

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

SECTION 1. The Port of Siassi, in the Jolo Collection District, is hereby discontinued as a port of entry, and section 16 of Act No. 355 and section 28 of Act No. 367, making provision for such port and for employés thereat are hereby repealed. The port of Siassi, however, will remain open to the coastwise trade.

SEC. 2. The Port of Aparri, in the Manila Collection District, is hereby created a port of entry in charge of an Acting Collector of Customs.

SEC. 3. The following employés are hereby authorized for the Aparri Custom House, and in the office of the Acting Collector of Customs for the port of Aparri: One Acting Collector of Customs of class 6, who shall act as disbursing clerk without additional compensation; one clerk of class D; four boatmen of class K at seventy-two dollars ($72.00) per annum each, in money of the United States.

SEC. 4. 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. 5. This act shall take effect June 1, 1902.

Enacted, April 30, 1902.

[No 395.]

AN ACT amending act No. 166, which created a special court for the trial of certain actions in the island of Negros, so as to authorize the judge of that special court to make interlocutory orders and conduct certain proceedings relating to actions instituted in the island of Negros since the 16th day of June, 1901.

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

SECTION 1. Act No. 166, entitled "An Act Creating a Special Court for the Trial of Certain Actions, Appellate and Original, Pending in the Courts of the Island of Negros on or before the 16th Day of June, 1901," is hereby amended by the addition of a new section to said act, following Section 6 thereof, as follows:

SEC. 7. The judge of said court shall have power to grant and dissolve temporary injunctions, to make and discharge orders of arrest and of attachment, to issue writs of habeas corpus, and to hear and determine the legality of the detention of the persons brought before him on writs of habeas corpus in any action now or heretofore or hereafter pending or instituted in either province of the Island of Negros, with the same effect in all respects as though such injunction had been granted or dissolved, or such order of arrest or attachment ordered or vacated or such writ of habeas corpus had been issued and the proceedings thereon determined by the regular judge of the Court of First Instance for the two provinces aforesaid."

Sections 7 and 8 of said Act 166 are hereby amended to read Sections 8 and 9 respectively.

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, May 6, 1902.

[No. 396.]

AN ACT so amending Act No. 136, Providing for the Organization of Courts, as to increase the number of Judges of Courts of First Instance and fixing the salaries of the additional judges provided for.

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

SECTION 1. Section 49 of Act No. 136, entitled "An Act Providing for the Organization of Courts in the Philippine Islands" is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"In Manila.-There shall be one Court of First Instance for the

City of Manila, and three judges shall be appointed by the Civil Governor with the advice and consent of the Commission, to preside in such Court in separate court rooms. The judges so appointed may be removed by the Civil Governor by and with the approval of the Commission. Actions brought in the Court of First Instance for the City of Manila shall be equally apportioned for trial between the judges thereof in accordance with rules to be made by the judges of the Supreme Court. Any action apportioned to one judge may be tried by another judge when more convenient to the judges."

SEC. 2. Section 60 of said Act No. 136 is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"The clerk in Manila.-The Civil Governor, with the advice and consent of the Commission, shall appoint a clerk and two assistant clerks in the City of Manila. The clerk and assistant clerks shall hold office during the pleasure of the judges and may be removed and their successors appointed by the judges in accordance with provisions of the Civil Service Law. The clerk shall receive a salary at the rate of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) a year, and the assistant clerks at the rate of one thousand, six hundred dollars ($1,600.00) per year each, and all fees charged by them shall belong to the Government. The clerk may appoint and remove one or more deputies, whose services shall be paid for out of his salary, unless the deputy be an assistant duly authorized, as in this section provided. The clerk may employ such assistants to be selected under the provisions of the Civil Service Law as the majority of the judges of the Supreme Court may decide to be necessary, and at salaries to be by them fixed, after approval thereof by the Chief Executive. The bond of the clerk shall be for six thousand dollars ($6,000.00,) and he may require a bond of indemnity from each of the assistant clerks, which shall be approved, filed and recorded as provided in the last preceding section. The clerk shall be answerable on his bond for defaults of his deputies and assistants."

SEC. 3. The Civil Governor is hereby authorized to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Commission, four judges of Courts of First Instance, in addition to the number of judges authorized by said Act No. 136. Each of the judges so appointed shall receive a compensation at the rate of four thousand, five hundred dollars ($4,500.00) per year, and shall possess the qualifications required by law for judges of the Supreme Court, and may be required to perform the duties of judge of Court of First Instance of any province in the Islands or of the City of Manila when directed in writing to do so by the Civil Governor, in which case his acts, proceedings and judgments shall be of the same validity as though he were the regular judge of the Court of First Instance in the City of Manila or in the province in which he shall perform such duties. The judges so appointed shall receive an allowance for traveling expenses in accordance with the provisions of section 63 of said Act No. 136.

SEC. 4. Any judge of a Court of First Instance, including the judges of the Court of First Instance of the City of Manila, may be transferred from one judicial district to another by order of the Civil Governor, with the advice and consent of the Commission. Any judge so transferred shall, upon such transfer, cease the performance of judicial duties in the district to which he was originally appointed, and shall be the regular judge thereafter in the judicial district to which he has 10613-02-22

been so assigned, and shall be entitled to the compensation of a judge of the Court of First Instance of the district to which he is assigned instead of that appertaining to the district to which he was originally appointed.

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

Enacted, May 9, 1902.

[No. 397.]

AN ACT to amend Act No. 190, entitled "An Act Providing a Code of Procedure in Civil Actions and Special Proceedings in the Philippine Islands," so as to provide a more certain method of procedure in the imprisonment of persons arrested and in the release of poor debtors.

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

SECTION 1. Section 415, of Act No. 190, entitled "An Act Providing a Code of Procedure in Civil Actions and Special Proceedings in the Philippine Islands," is hereby amended by striking out the period at the end of said section and substituting in lieu thereof a semi-colon, and adding the following words: "and shall advance to the jailor, on commitment of the person arrested, sufficient money for the support of the prisoner for one week at the rate now or hereafter provided by law for such support, either before or after final judgment, and must make a like advance for each successive week of his imprisonment, and in case of failure to do so the jailor must forthwith discharge such prisoner from custody; and such discharge shall have the same effect as if made by order of the court or of the creditor. The costs of maintaining the defendant in jail shall be taxed as costs in the action."

SEC. 2. Said Act No. 190 is hereby further amended by the insertion of a new section immediately after section 423, to be numbered 423. reading as follows:

"SEC. 423. RELEASE OF POOR JUDGMENT DEBTOR. If judgment be recovered by the plaintiff and the case is one of those mentioned in section 412, execution may issue against the person of the judgment debtor, committing him to the jail in the province until he pay the judgment with interest and costs of commitment and support, or be discharged according to law: Provided, however, the judgment debtor may at any time after judgment apply to the judge or justice of the peace who made the order of commitment or issued the execution on which commitment was made, or to the court in which the judgment was rendered upon reasonable notice to the adverse party to discharge the judgment debtor from arrest. Upon such application, a judge, justice of the peace, or court, as the case may be, shall grant immediate hearing, after notice to the parties, and if it is made to appear that the judgment debtor has not any estate, real or personal, not exempt by law from being taken on execution, and has not any other estate or property conveyed, concealed or in any way disposed of with the design unlawfully to secure the same to his own use or that of his

family, or to defraud or delay the judgment creditor, the judgment debtor shall be discharged from further imprisonment upon subscribing the following oath, which shall be filed among the papers pertaining to the action:

"I. do solemnly swear that I have not any estate, real or personal, except such as is by law exempt from being taken in execution; and that I have not any other estate or property now conveyed, concealed or in any way disposed of with design to secure the same unlawfully to my use or that of my family, or to hinder, delay or defraud my creditors. So help me God.'

"The prisoner after being so discharged shall be forever exempted from arrest or imprisonment for the same debt, but the judgment against him shall remain in full force against any estate which may then or at any time afterwards belong to him, and the plaintiff may take out a new execution against the goods and estate of the prisoner in like manner as if he had never been committed. The plaintiff in the action may at any time order the prisoner to be discharged and he shall not thereafter be liable to imprisonment for the same cause of action."

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with ection 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, May 9, 1902.

[No. 398.]

AN ACT amending section 5 of Act No. 139 extending the provisions of The Provincial Government Act' to the Province of Nueva Ecija,

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

SECTION 1. Section 5 of Act No. 139, entitled "An Act Extending the Provisions of The Provincial Government Act' to the Province of Nueva Ecija," is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 5. The capital of the province shall be, as formerly, at the town of San Isidro; provided, however, that if at the semi-annual meeting of the presidentes to be held on the third Monday of May, 1902, under the preceding section, a majority of all the presidentes of the province shall vote to change the capital from San Isidro to some other town in the province, such town, after a certain date to be decided upon by the Provincial Board, which date shall not be later than the first of January, 1903, shall then become the capital."

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, May 9, 1902.