vincial treasurer, the person so appointed or designated shall ipso facto be deemed to be a bonded officer or employee within the meaning of this Act, and his liability as such shall begin on the day on which he enters upon the discharge of the duties of such position; and his liability for the payment of his share of the premium, and, if he be a provincial officer or employee or an officer or employee of the city of Manila, or a municipal and deputy provincial treasurer, the liability of the province, the city of Manila, or the municipality, as the case may be, for its share of the bond premium of such person shall begin on such day. No formal application on the part of any person occupying a bonded position shall be deemed necessary to make him such bonded officer or employee, but the fact of his acceptance of the position and of his entrance upon the discharge of the duties of such position shall be deemed to carry with it his consent to be placed upon the schedule of bonded officers and employees, and to the assumption of all duties, premium charges, liabilities, and penalties by law attached to such position: Provided, That the liabilities, responsibilities, and duties of all persons occupying bonded positions within the meaning of this Act on January first, nineteen hundred and eight, shall begin on said day and the liability for the payment of their share of the fidelity-bond premium and the like liability of the provinces, the city of Manila, and municipalities shall likewise begin on said day: And provided further, That premiums shall be due and payable semiannually in advance, and no refund of premiums so paid shall be made from the fund hereby created, but refund of unearned premiums shall be made to the officer or agent who has paid the same (a) upon retirement from the service, by his successor, or in case there is no successor from the appropriations or funds of the Bureau or Office concerned; (b) in cases where by reason of illness or other cause an acting officer or agent is appointed and bonded, from the appropriations or funds of the Bureau or Office concerned, the intent of this law being that two bonds shall not exist for the same office at the same time.

SEC. 7. The chief of the Bureau or Office to which any bonded position, now in existence or hereafter created, may pertain, shall at once, and without delay, notify the Insular Treasurer of the appointment or designation of any person to fill or discharge the duties of such position. In the provinces this duty shall be performed by the provincial treasurers, in the Moro Province by the provincial treasurer of that province, and in Manila by the secretary of the Municipal Board. Such notification shall contain the title or designation of the position, the name of the person appointed or designated, the name of the person relieved, the financial or property accountability pertaining to the position and the maximum of public funds, or the total value of the public property likely to be in the hands of the incumbent at any one time, the salary attached to the position, the amount of the bond required of the position by law or authoritative regulation, if any, and if not, a recommendation as to the amount, the date of the relief of the preceding incumbent from the duties of such position, and the date on which the person appointed or designated assumes charge. Such notification shall also state the opinion of the appointing officer of the business and moral qualifications of the person appointed or designated for the position in question and any such other information in the possession of the appointing officer as may have a bearing upon the

amount of the bond to be required or as may be asked for by the Insular Treasurer. Upon receipt of this information the Insular Treasurer shall place the name of such person upon the record provided for in section five of this Act and shall notify the chief of Bureau or head of Office of the action taken: Provided, however, That the Insular Treasurer, if in his judgment the character, associations, or habits of the insured person do not constitute such person a safe and conservative risk, may report the facts to the Governor-General for proper action.

SEC. 8. When an official is acting in the dual capacity of deputy of the provincial treasurer and municipal treasurer, notification thereof, as prescribed in section seven of this Act, shall at once and without delay be forwarded to the Insular Treasurer by the provincial treasurer whose deputy such official is, and in such cases the provisions of section seventeen of Act Numbered Eighty-two, as amended, shall not apply. The Insular Auditor shall fix the amount of the bond of such officer upon the recommendation of the provincial treasurer, and one-half of the premium chargeable shall be paid by the province and the other half by the municipality. It shall be the duty of the provincial treasurer, subject to the supervision of the Insular Auditor, to collect from the various municipalities in his province, the treasurers of which are deputies of the provincial treasurer, and from the individuals who are his deputies, the amounts respectively due as bond premiums, and to forward the same to the Insular Treasurer.

SEC. 9. Whenever any official, employee, or agent shall be designated by the proper authority temporarily to perform the duties of the head of a Bureau or Office or of any subordinate office or the duties of any employment under any Office, Bureau, or province in accordance with section fifteen of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and ninety-eight, all fidelity and premium charges which shall be due or accrue on account of such temporary designation shall be paid wholly from the appropriation or funds of the Department, Bureau, Office, province, or municipality, as the case may be, in which the services are rendered.

SEC. 10. All persons whose names are listed on the record required in section five of this Act to be made and kept shall be deemed to be bonded to the Government of the Philippine Islands for the faithful performance of all duties now or hereafter imposed by law upon the positions occupied by them, and for the faithful accounting for all public funds and public property coming into their possession, custody, or control by appropriation, collection, transfer, or in any other manner, and for the lawful payment, disbursement, expenditure, or transfer of all public funds or public property in their hands, possession, or custody or under their control as accountable or responsible officers: Provided, however, That the conditions governing the accountability of provincial treasurers shall continue and remain as fixed in section five of Act Numbered Eighty-three, known as "The Provincial Government Act," as amended, and section four of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six, known as "The Special Provincial Government Act," as amended.

SEC. 11. Every person whose name is or has been listed on the record or schedule of names of bonded positions provided for in this Act shall be deemed to be or to have been a "bonded officer " or a

"bonded employee" within the meaning of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and five, entitled "An Act forbidding, under penalty, bonded officers or bonded employees, or former bonded officers or bonded employees, of the Insular Government, or of any provincial or municipal government in the Philippine Islands, or the city of Manila, from leaving or attempting to leave the Philippine Islands without first securing a certificate from the Insular Auditor, and repealing Act Numbered Eleven hundred and sixty-one," and within the meaning of every other Act in force fixing the responsibility, accountability, liability, duties, or penalties of officers or employees who were heretofore required to give bond for the faithful performance of their duties and the accounting for public funds or public property.

SEC. 12. The Insular Auditor shall fix the amount for which the various positions contemplated in this Act shall be bonded. The Auditor shall determine the exact amount of losses, shortages, and defalcations which may be found in the accounts of any bonded officers, employees, or agents, whether of money or property, the amount to be paid in order to replace such losses, shortages, or defalcations, and the account or accounts of the Bureau, Office, province, or municipality to which such sums shall be paid from the fidelitybond premium fund. When the Auditor has determined such amount he shall certify the same to the Insular Treasurer, who shall thereupon issue a warrant therefor.

SEC. 13. The powers and duties vested in the Insular Auditor by sections forty-three and forty-four of the Accounting Act are hereby extended in their entirety to the fidelity-bond premium fund.

SEC. 14. The moneys in the fidelity-bond premium fund may be invested by the Insular Treasurer, with the approval of the Governor-General, in any or all of the ways in which the funds of the Philippine Postal Savings Bank may be invested by the Postal Savings Bank Investment Board under authority of section eighteen of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and ninety-three, as amended. SEC. 15. The provisions of this Act shall not be applicable to sheriffs of provinces or to provincial governors acting as sheriffs.

SEC. 16. Section twenty-three of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-six, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 23. The governor of the province, or, if he declines to act as sheriff, any person lawfully appointed to the position of sheriff, shall, before being qualified to perform the duties of sheriff or officer of the court, execute a bond, with not less than three sureties, running to the Government of the Philippine Islands, for the benefit of whom it may concern, in the penal sum of twenty thousand pesos. The sureties on said bond shall qualify under oath before the judge of the Court of First Instance, or, in his absence, before the clerk of the court. The bond shall be conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of himself and his deputies as sheriff and officer of the court, and for the payment to the Government or the persons entitled thereto of all sums of money that shall come into his or their hands officially. Its form shall be prescribed by the Auditor, who shall approve and forward it to the Insular Treasurer for file. The bond shall bear an indorsement of the provincial treasurer stating that after due investigation, and to the best of his knowledge and belief, the sureties collectively own real property in the

sum of twenty thousand pesos, free from incumbrances and over and above any liabilities owing by them. The bond shall thereupon be forwarded to the Insular Treasurer and, after his approval, be kept on file in his office. The bond shall be available for the benefit of the Government and of any person in interest. Until the bond has been approved by the Auditor the officer shall not be entitled to any fees for services performed, but the Auditor's approval shall be effective as of the date of the bond. The governor or sheriff may require each deputy appointed by him to execute a sufficient indemnity for his protection against any wrong-doing on the part of such deputy."

SEC. 17. Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An Act requiring all officers and employees who shall receive and have custody of money in the discharge of their official duties to give bond;" Act Numbered Four hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An Act vesting the Insular Treasurer with power to increase or diminish the bonds of public officials, with the approval of the Civil Governor;" Act Numbered Six hundred and twenty-six, entitled "An Act providing that when any official or employee of the Government shall be designated to perform the duties of another official or employee, in accordance with Act Numbered Four hundred and eight, he shall be reimbursed for such additional expense as he shall be obliged to incur for bond by reason of such designation; and making this Act retroactive;" Act Numbered Seven hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An Act immediately to reimburse from the Insular Treasury the treasuries of provinces which have suffered loss through defalcations of their bonded officials, pending recovery of amounts lost on the official bonds," and Act Numbered One thousand and ninetyseven, entitled "An Act relating to the payment of the premium charges upon the bonds of bonded Insular, provincial, and municipal officers and employees," are hereby repealed.

SEC. 18. 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. 19. This Act shall take effect on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, with the approval of the Secretary of War first had and obtained.

Enacted, October 3, 1907.

[No. 1740.]

AN ACT Providing for the punishment of public officers and employees who fail or refuse to account for public funds or property or who make personal use of such funds or property, or any part thereof, or who misappropriate the same, or any part thereof, or who are guilty of any malversation with reference to such funds or property, or who through abandonment, fault, or negligence permit any other person to abstract, misappropriate, or make personal use of the same.

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

SECTION 1. Any bonded officer or employee of the Insular Government, or of any provincial or municipal government, or of the

city of Manila, and any other person who, having charge, by reason of his office or employment, of Insular, provincial, or municipal funds or property, or of funds or property of the city of Manila, or of trust or other funds by law required to be kept or deposited by or with such officer, employee, or other person, or by or with any public office, treasury, or other depositary, fails or refuses to account for the same, or makes personal use of such funds or property, or of any part thereof, or abstracts or misappropriates the same, or any part thereof, or is guilty of any malversation with reference to such funds or property, or through his abandonment, fault, or negligence permits any other person to abstract, misappropriate, or make personal use of the same, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment for not less than two months nor more than ten years and, in the discretion of the court, by a fine of not more than the amount of such funds and the value of such property.

SEC. 2. In all prosecutions for violations of the preceding section, the absence of any of the public funds or property of which any person described in said section has charge, and any failure or inability of such person to produce all the funds and property properly in his charge on the demand of any officer authorized to examine or inspect such person, office, treasury, or depositary shall be deemed to be prima facie evidence that such missing funds or property have been put to personal uses or used for personal ends by such person within the meaning of the preceding section.

SEC. 3. Every person convicted of a violation of this Act shall ipso facto be forever disqualified from holding any public office or employment of any nature whatever within the Philippine Islands.

SEC. 4. Articles three hundred and ninety, three hundred and ninety-one, and three hundred and ninety-two of the Penal Code of the Philippine Islands, in so far as the same may be in conflict with this Act, are hereby to that extent only repealed.

SEC. 5. 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. 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, October 3, 1907.

[No. 1741.]

AN ACT To amend Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-six, as amended, by providing a salary of twenty-four hundred pesos per annum for the justices of the peace of Cebu and Iloilo, and by allowing each of said justices two clerks to be paid by the respective municipalities.

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

SECTION 1. Section seventy-one of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the organization of courts in the Philippine Islands," as amended by Act Numbered