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No. 1774. An act to amend act No. 854, as amended, by authorizing the

extension of the period within which returning government

students shall take a civil service examination____

No. 1775. An act authorizing the insular collector of customs to clear for-
eign vessels for the ports of Legaspi and Tabaco___.

No. 1776. An act amending act No. 83 and requiring copies of the minutes

of provincial boards to be forwarded to the executive sec-

retary.

No. 1777. An act authorizing the governor-general to close, by executive

order, certain ports of entry, and to reopen the same ports in

like manner when the public interests so require__

No. 1778. An act amending sections Nos. 80 and 88 of act No. 190, provid-

ing a code of procedure in civil actions and special proceed-

ings in the Philippine Islands, as amended----

No. 1779. An act to create a board for the regulation of rates chargeable

by public service corporations in the Philippine Islands, and

for other purposes .

No. 1780. An act to regulate the importation, acquisition, possession, use,

and transfer of firearms, and to prohibit the possession of

the same except in compliance with the provisions of this

act.

No. 1781. An act to amend section 27 of act No. 355, entitled “An act to

constitute the customs service of the Philippine Archipelago

and to provide for the administration thereof," as amended,

by providing for the remission of duties on importations of

the value of less than $1_.

No. 1782. An act to provide for the establishment of manufacturing bonded

warehouses -

No. 1783. An act appropriating the sum of 200,000 for the construction

and improvement of permanent roads and bridges in the pro-

vinces of the Philippine Islands..

No. 1784. An act appropriating the sum of $350,000 from the funds

realized from the sale of public improvement bonds author-

ized by act No. 1444, for certain public works and perma-

nent improvements of the insular government....

No. 1785. An act making additional appropriations for sundry expenses

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No. 1787. An act amending sections 74 and 107 of act No. 1189, as
amended __.

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ACTS OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION.

[No. 1539.]

AN ACT Amending section five of Act Numbered Seventy-four, establishing a Department of Public Instruction, as amended, by authorizing the Director of Education, with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, to change, increase, or decrease the existing school divisions of the Philippine Islands.

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

SECTION 1. Section five of Act Numbered Seventy-four, establishing a Department of Public Instruction, as amended by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and thirty-seven, is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the following proviso:

"Provided, That the Director of Education, with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, may change, increase, or decrease the school divisions herein established whenever in his judgment the public interests so require."

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twentysixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its
Enacted, October 5, 1906.

passage.

[No. 1540.]

AN ACT Authorizing the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company to bring suit against the Government of the Philippine Islands in the Court of First Instance of the city of Manila to determine the liability of the respective parties for damages caused to the Luneta Extension by the typhoon of May eighteenth and nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six.

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

SECTION 1. Authority is hereby granted the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company, a company or corporation authorized to do business in the Philippine Islands, to institute a suit in the Court of First Instance of the city of Manila against the Government of the Philippine Islands, to determine the liability of the respective parties for damages done to the bulkhead and rock revetment of the Luneta Extension by the typhoon of May eighteenth and nineteenth, nineteen

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hundred and six, under the contract entered into for said work between the Government of the Philippine Islands and the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company, bearing date the twenty-fourth day of July, nineteen hundred and five: Provided, however, That this Act shall in no wise be construed as a waiver on the part of the Government of the Philippine Islands of any of its rights under said contract, or as a waiver of its contention that the question of liability for such damages under the said contract is a question to be finally decided by the officer in charge of the port works, or as a waiver of any other defense which it may have at the time of the passage of this Act.

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with. section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twentysixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, October 6, 1906.

[No. 1541.]

AN ACT Transferring the Division of Ethnology from the Bureau of Education to the Bureau of Science and repealing paragraph (b) of section twentythree of the Reorganization Act.

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

SECTION 1. The administrative control and supervision of the Division of Ethnology, Bureau of Education, together with all officers and employees now provided by law for that division, and all property thereof, are hereby transferred to the Bureau of Science, and the Division of Ethnology shall hereafter be known and considered as a division of the Bureau of Science. The balance of appropriations under the Bureau of Education for salaries and wages of the Division of Ethnology and of the appropriation for the purchase of ethnological museum specimens and manuscripts is hereby transferred to and made a part of the appropriations of the Bureau of Science for the said division.

SEC. 2. Paragraph (b) of section twenty-three of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and seven, known as the Reorganization Act, is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on November first, nineteen hundred and six.

Enacted, October 6, 1906.

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