the said city of Manila shall have the right to enter immediately upon the possession of the land involved, after and upon deposit by it with the clerk of the Court of First Instance in which such action is pending, the value of the land in money as provisionally and promptly ascertained and fixed by the court having jurisdiction of the proceedings, said sum to be held by the clerk of the court subject to the orders and final disposition of the court; and the court is empowered and directed by appropriate order and writ, if necessary, to place the city of Manila in possession of the land upon the making of such deposit. In case such payment is made into court the clerk of the court shall be responsible upon his bond for the sum so paid and shall be compelled to receive it.

SEC. 4. The effects of a bill of exceptions in such case, the provisions as to the cost, as to the fees of the commission, as to final judgment and its record and effect, as to the powers of a guardian, and as to persons not notified of the condemnation proceedings, shall be such as are defined in sections two hundred and forty-eight to two hundred and fifty-three, inclusive, of Act Numbered One hundred and ninety. SEC. 5. Any party claiming an interest in money paid into court or deposited with the clerk of the Court of First Instance in accordance with the provisions of section three hereof, may litigate in court his claim thereto, and the court shall apportion the sum so paid in among the various claimants thereto as justice shall require and shall award such costs as to it may seem equitable. But the plaintiff in the condemnation proceedings shall not be a necessary party to the proceedings for the distribution of the sum or sums paid into court, nor be answerable for any cause arising from such litigation.

SEC. 6. The court in its order of appointment may direct the commissioners to report when any particular portion of the lands shall have been passed upon by the commissioners and may render judgment upon such partial report and direct the commissioners to proceed with their work as to subsequent portions of the land sought to be condemned and may from time to time so deal with the lands sought to be condemned.

SEC. 7. The proper judge of the Court of First Instance may act upon complaints for condemnation of lands under this Act in vacation time as well as in term time and may make appointments of commissioners, orders upon the reports of commissioners, and judgments of condemnation for the award and apportioning of damages at any time when it is convenient so to do, upon due notice to the parties in interest, and may make any orders to expedite procedings in the same manner and to the same effect as though made in regular term time and in court. It shall be the duty of the court or judge to expedite these proceedings as much as the interest of justice will

warrant.

SEC. 8. No judgments entered in pursuance of this Act apportioning damages among rival claimants shall be conclusive as to the real ownership of the land affected thereby in proceedings of the Court of Land Registration for the purpose of obtaining a certificate of title.

SEC. 9. 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. 10. This Act shall take effect on its

Enacted, May 6, 1907.

[No. 1642.]

passage.

AN ACT Providing for the establishment of two subprovinces to be known as the subprovince of Kalinga and the subprovince of Apayao.

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby established a subprovince which shall be known as the subprovince of Kalinga. The boundary of this subprovince shall be a line beginning at a point in the hills immediately west of the municipality of Malaueg, in the Province of Cagayan, and extending to the hills immediately west of the municipality of Santa Maria, in the Province of Isabela, between the settlements of Christian natives and of non-Christian tribes; thence in a southerly direction, between the settlements of Christians and of non-Christians, to the Kalinga settlement of Sili; thence west to the boundary of Nueva Vizcaya; thence along the present line of the northeastern boundary of Nueva Vizcaya to its intersection with the boundary line of the subprovince of Bontoc; thence along the present eastern line of the subprovince of Bontoc to the vicinity of the rancheria of Gaan; thence due west to the crest of the watershed between the Talodan and Chico Rivers; thence north along the watershed between these rivers so as to include the Talodan River valley, passing between the settlements of Tanglac and Capigon; thence west along the watershed between the Tabia and Saltan Rivers to the eastern boundary of the subprovince of Abra, so as to include the settlements of the Saltan River valley; thence north along the eastern line of the present boundary of the subprovince of Abra to the vicinity of Dagara and the settlements of the southern branch of the Abulug River; and thence eastward to its point of origin in the hills immediately to the west of Malaueg; the general purpose in fixing this boundary being to include within it all settlements of the Kalinga tribe west of the Rio Grande de Cagayan, together with all settlements of non-Christians in the Saltan River Valley. Prior to the actual survey of a definite boundary line for this subprovince, parts of the line may be more definitely fixed or changed by order of the Governor-General. The territory of the subprovince of Kalinga shall be a part of the Province of Lepanto-Bontoc.

SEC. 2. There shall be a lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Kalinga, who shall receive compensation at the rate of three thousand two hundred pesos per annum. Within the limits of his subprovince he shall exercise the powers and perform the duties fixed by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six for the lieutenant-governor of Bontoc. He shall reside and have his office at the capital of the subprovince.

SEC. 3. The settlement of Tabuc is hereby designated as the capital of the subprovince of Kalinga: Provided, That should experience demonstrate the desirability of making some other settlement the

capital of the subprovince, this may be done by order of the GovernorGeneral.

SEC. 4. There is hereby established a subprovince which shall be known as the subprovince of Apayao. Its eastern boundary shall be a line beginning in the hills immediately to the westward of the municipality of Claveria, in the Province of Cagayan, and extending in a general southeasterly and southerly direction, between the settlements of Christians and of non-Christians, to the point in the hills immediately to the westward of Malaueg at which the boundary of the subprovince of Kalinga begins; its southern boundary shall be the line fixed in section one of this Act for the northern boundary of the subprovince of Kalinga; its western boundary shall be the line fixed by existing law as the eastern boundary line of northern Abra and of that portion of Ilocos Norte which at present abuts upon the Province of Cagayan, extending to a point directly to the west of the point of origin in the hills west of Claveria; its northern boundary shall be a line extending due east from this point to the point immediately to the westward of the municipality of Claveria, at which the boundary begins; the general purpose in fixing this boundary being to include within the subprovince of Apayao all the non-Christian inhabitants of the Province of Cagayan west of the Rio Grande de Cagayan and north of Malaueg. The teritory of the subprovince of Apayao shall form a part of the territory of the Province of Cagayan, and the governor and the provincial board of that province shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties relative to this subprovince fixed by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six for the governor and provincial board of Lepanto-Bontoc relative to the subprovince of Bontoc.

SEC. 5. There shall be a lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Apayao, who shall receive compensation at the rate of three thousand two hundred pesos per annum. Within the limits of his subprovince he shall exercise the powers and perform the duties fixed by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six for the lieutenant-governor of Bontoc. He shall reside and have his office at the capital of - the subprovince.

SEC. 6. The settlement of Tauit is hereby designated as the capital of the subprovince of Apayao: Provided, That should experience demonstrate the desirability of making some other settlement the capital of the subprovince, this may be done by order of the GovernorGeneral.

SEC. 7. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of one thousand pesos, of which five hundred pesos may be expended by the lieutenantgovernor of Kalinga and five hundred pesos may be expended by the lieutenant-governor of Apayao for the purchase of gifts to be employed in establishing friendly relations with the people of these subprovinces: Provided, That the expenditure of these funds shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.

SEC. 8. Any unexpended balance of non-Christian inhabitants' funds of Cagayan and Isabela shall be expendable either in the subprovince of Kalinga or the subprovince of Apayao, as the Secretary of the Interior may direct.

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to ascertain and report to the Insular Auditor as soon as practicable the approximate number of inhabitants in the subprovince of Kalinga and in the subprovince of Apayao, and upon such certification the Insular Auditor shall redistribute internal-revenue payments in such a way that the amount proportionate to the number of inhabitants removed from the territorial jurisdiction of the Provinces of Cagayan and Isabela and transferred to that of Lepanto-Bontoc by the establishment of the subprovinces of Kalinga and Apayao shall be deducted from the non-Christian inhabitants' funds of the former provinces and added to the non-Christian inhabitants' funds of LepantoBontoc; and thereafter in determining the amount of internalrevenue funds due and payable to the municipalities and townships of Cagayan the Insular Auditor shall take into account the number of non-Christian inhabitants in the subprovince of Apayao as certified to him by the Secretary of the Interior.

SEC 9. Disbursements other than those authorized in section seven of this Act in the subprovinces of Kalinga and Apayao shall be made by such officers as the Governor-General may from time to time direct.

SEC. 10. 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. 11. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, May 9, 1907.

[No. 1643.]

AN ACT Extending the time for the payment of the cedula tax for the year nineteen hundred and seven in the township of Imunan, Province of Nueva Vizcaya.

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

SECTION 1. The period for the payment without penalty of the cedula tax for the year nineteen hundred and seven in the newly organized township of Imunan, Province of Nueva Vizcaya, is hereby extended to September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven.

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, May 10, 1907.

[No. 1644.]

AN ACT Repealing Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An Act providing that one fiscal shall perform the duties of fiscal for the Provinces of La Union and Zambales, repealing the provisions of law authorizing a separate fiscal for each of said provinces, fixing the salary for the fiscal of the two provinces, and making provisions for traveling expenses of such fiscal," providing for the performance of the duties of the fiscal for the Province of La Union and providing that the Attorney-General may designate any assistant attorney or fiscal to perform the duties of fiscal for the Province of Zambales.

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

SECTION 1. Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An Act providing that one fiscal shall perform the duties of fiscal for the Provinces of La Union and Zambales, repealing the provisions of law authorizing a separate fiscal for each of said provinces, fixing the salary for the fiscal of the two provinces, and making provisions for traveling expenses of such fiscal," is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. The office of fiscal of the Province of La Union is hereby re-created, and from and after the date on which this Act shall take effect the salary of the fiscal of said province shall be two thousand six hundred pesos per annum, and said fiscal shall perform all the duties imposed by law upon provincial fiscals.

SEC. 3. The office of fiscal of the Province of Zambales is hereby abolished and the Attorney-General is hereby authorized and directed, whenever the necessity therefor arises, to designate any assistant attorney or provincial fiscal to perform in the Province of Zambales the duties of fiscal for said province, and said assistant attorney or fiscal shall perform in the Province of Zambales all the duties imposed by law upon provincial fiscals, and the necessary traveling expenses of such assistant attorney or fiscal shall be borne by the Province of Zambales, which shall reimburse the Bureau of Justice, or the province from which the fiscal is detailed, in such amount as shall be fixed by the Attorney-General with the approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice.

SEC. 4. 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on June first, nineteen hundred and seven.

Enacted, May 14, 1907.