contrary notwithstanding. Presidents of municipal health districts shall be subject to the same requirements of law as other presidents of municipal boards of health, except as to restriction of salary, and shall be appointed in the same manner."

SEC. 2. Section three of the said Act is hereby amended by inserting after the word "president" and before the words "The other members of the board shall serve without compensation" in the seventh line, the words "but nothing in this section shall be construed so as to prevent a duly appointed president of a municipal health district from receiving such additional salary as may be appropriated for the position and approved by the Director of Health."

SEC. 3. Section five of the said Act is hereby amended by inserting after the word "members" and before the words "Subject to the supervision and control" in the fourth line, the words "Provided, That in municipalities which are a component part of a municipal health district, meetings shall be held at the call of the president.

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 twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, March 14, 1907..

[No. 1614.]

AN ACT Amending section one of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninetythree, entitled "An Act providing for the widening of the streets and the adjustment of ownership of land located within certain specified limits in the municipality of Cebu, Province of Cebu," by providing a change in the personnel of the committee appointed by resolution of the Philippine Commission of March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and five, and inserting a new paragraph in said Act authorizing clerical assistance.

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

SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An Act providing for the widening of the streets and the adjustment of ownership of land located within certain specified limits in the municipality of Cebu, Province of Cebu," is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SECTION 1. The Governor-General, with the consent of the Philippine Commission, is hereby authorized to appoint a committee of five persons to continue the work of the committee appointed by resolution of the Commission of March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and five, to provide plans for the widening of such streets as may be desirable and proper and to lay out new streets within the so-called 'burnt area' in the municipality of Cebu, Province of Cebu, to adjust all questions of ownership of all land within the said burnt area, and to make such equitable allotment and adjustment of the land within the said burnt area as may be necessary and practicable, caused by the widening of existing streets and in the laying out of new streets. All future vacancies on the committee hereby established shall be filled by appointment by the Governor-General. The

committee heretofore appointed under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-three is hereby discharged from further duty and shall turn over all books, papers, records, and accounts to the committee appointed in accordance with this Act. The Governor-General is hereby authorized to confirm and approve the acts of the Director of Public Works, Sergio Osmeña, provincial governor of Cebu, T. Warren Allen, district engineer, and the president of the municipality of Cebu, acting instead of the committee authorized by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-three."

SEC. 2. Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-three is hereby further amended by adding at the end of section six thereof the following:

"The said committee is hereby authorized to employ such clerical assistants as may be necessary at a salary of not to exceed one hundred and fifty pesos per month each. The services of the said clerical assistants shall be certified to by the chairman of the committee. The expenses of this committee, to the extent of one thousand eight hundred pesos, shall be borne by the Insular Government. The Civil Service Acts and rules shall not necessarily be applicable to such clerical assistants as are herein authorized: Provided, That appointees under this Act who are members of the Civil Service, or certified by the Bureau of Civil Service for appointment, shall lose no right or privilege by reason of such appointment."

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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, March 18, 1907.

[No. 1615.]

AN ACT Providing for the cancellation of official bonds of registrars of property and relieving their sureties from responsibility on such bonds executed prior to August thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

Whereas, under the Mortgage Law and the regulations for its execution in force in the Philippine Islands prior to American occupation, registrars of property were required to give bond conditioned upon the faithful performance of their duties as such officers; and

Whereas the provisions of said Mortgage Law and the regulations for its execution providing for the release and delivery of such bonds have become inoperative because of the change of sovereignty; and

Whereas much hardship has been caused to the principals and sureties of such bonds because of the impossibility of securing the cancellation of said bonds which, in many cases, constitute legal incumbrances upon the real property of said principals and their sureties: Now, therefore,

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

SECTION 1. The official bond of any registrar of property or any

surety of such official, executed prior to August thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and constituting a mortgage or lien upon real property, may be canceled at the request of the principal or any surety of said bond upon complying with the requirements of this

Act.

SEC. 2. The principal or surety desiring the cancellation of any such bond shall present a petition in writing to the Court of First Instance of the province in which the registrar officiated, stating under oath the circumstances leading to the giving of such bond, making a copy of such bond a part of such application, and requesting the cancellation thereof.

SEC. 3. Upon the filing of said petition the clerk of the Court of First Instance in which such petition is filed shall cause a notice. thereof to be published in a Spanish newspaper of general circulation published in the province in which the registrar officiated, if any such newspaper be published in said province, and also in a Spanish newspaper of general circulation published in the city of Manila. Such notice shall be published once a week in said newspapers for a period of ten consecutive weeks and shall be posted and kept posted in a conspicuous place in the provincial building of the province in which such registrar officiated for a period of six months. Said notice shall inform all persons interested of the filing of such petition, and shall require that all persons having claims arising out of the official misconduct of such registrar shall, within two months after the termination of the period for publication and posting of said notice, file in said court their opposition to said petition, which said opposition shall set forth, under oath, that legal proceedings have been commenced in the proper Court of First Instance for the enforcement of legal claims against such registrar and his bondsmen. Unless such opposition is filed within said period the bond shall be canceled.

SEC. 4. In case such opposition is filed and proper proof is submitted to the Court of First Instance in which said petition is filed that legal proceedings have been commenced against said registrar and his bondsmen, action by said Court of First Instance upon the petition for the cancellation of the bond shall be suspended until the final determination of the suits commenced against the registrar and his bondsmen: Provided, however, That such suits must be prosecuted with proper diligence.

SEC. 5. Should those opposing the cancellation of the bond fail to present satisfactory proof that suits have been commenced as alleged in their opposition, an order shall be entered by the Court of First Instance canceling the bond in accordance with the prayer of the petition.

SEC. 6. A copy of the order of the court canceling the bond shall be filed with the registrar of deeds in the province where the property of the principal and that of his bondsmen is situated, and thereupon said property shall be immediately released from any lien or incumbrance because of said bond.

SEC. 7. The court costs and other costs of proceedings for the cancellation of bonds under this Act shall be paid by the petitioner.

SEC. 8. 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. 9. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, March 19, 1907.

[No. 1616.]

AN ACT Changing the name of the municipality of Almeria, Province of Leyte, to that of Kawayan, and transferring the seat of its municipal government to the present barrio of Kawayan; also changing the name of the municipality of San Ricardo in the said province to that of Pintuyan, and transferring the seat of its municipal government to the present barrio of Pintuyan.

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

SECTION 1. The municipality of Almeria in the Province of Leyte, as established by paragraph eleven of section one of Act Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-four, shall hereafter be known as Kawayan, with the seat of the municipal government at the present barrio of Kawayan.

SEC. 2. The municipality of San Ricardo in the Province of Leyte, as established by paragraph fifteen of section one of Act Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-four, as amended by Act Numbered Nine hundred and eighty-six, shall hereafter be known as Pintuyan, with the seat of the municipal government at the present barrio of Pintuyan.

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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, March 19, 1907.

[No. 1617.]

AN ACT Providing for the establishment and maintenance of toll roads and

bridges.

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

SECTION 1. Whenever the provincial board of any province shall decide it to be necessary for the proper maintenance of any road or highway within the province, it may designate any such road or highway, or any part of any road or highway, or any bridge, which is maintained or intended to be built and maintained wholly by provincial funds, as a toll road or toll bridge, and may fix, and from time to time may change, the rates of toll to be paid for the use thereof, which shall be reasonable and shall not be greater than is necessary to produce the revenue requisite for the proper building, maintenance, or improvement thereof during the period while the toll rates are in force. The rates fixed shall be subject to the approval

of the Governor-General: Provided, That no toll shall be collected from persons passing over such road or bridge on foot: And provided, further, That officers and enlisted men and civil employees of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps shall be exempt from the payment of tolls or charges under this Act.

SEC. 2. The provincial board may erect the gates and employ the persons necessary to collect the tolls on any such road or part of road or bridge so designated, the tolls so collected to constitute a special fund for the repair and maintenance of said toll road.

SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person whatever to use any toll road or bridge except as provided in section one hereof without paying the tolls prescribed therefor, and any person who shall make use thereof in violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed fifty pesos and in default of the payment thereof shall be imprisoned one day for each peso of fine and costs unpaid.

SEC. 4. Whenever either the Governor-General or the provincial board shall decide that the financial situation of a province is such that the collection of tolls on any road or part of a road or bridge may be discontinued without injury to the welfare of such province, the Governor-General or the provincial board, as the case may be, shall so order and thereafter such road or part thereof shall be free for public use, and in any case no road or highway shall be continued as a toll road or highway for a longer period than five years.

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, March 20, 1907.

[No. 1618.]

AN ACT Increasing the number of municipalities in the Province of Misamis from ten to eleven, by separating from Talisayan the former municipality of Gingoog, giving the latter the territory which it comprised prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-one, and providing for the distribution of funds in the municipal treasury of Talisayan, resulting from the separation from Talisayan of the former municipality of Gingoog.

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

SECTION 1. The ten municipalities of the Province of Misamis, as established by Act Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-one, shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be increased to eleven, by separating from Talisayan the former municipality of Gingoog, which is hereby reconstituted and shall consist of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of said Act Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-one.

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 twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.