custody unless released upon sufficient bail, in accordance with the rules and regulations now or hereafter in force, to await the judgment of the appellate court."

SEC. 12. Section 43 of said act, relating to the duties of the Sheriff of Manila, is hereby amended, by striking out the first four lines and substituting in lieu thereof the following words:

"The Sheriff of the city of Manila, appointed under section 25 of Act No. 136, providing for the organization of courts, shall receive a salary at the rate of three thousand dollars ($3,000) per year."

Said section 43 is also hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"All expenses incident to the repair and alteration of the buildings used by the Supreme Court in the city of Manila, and for the purchase of equipment and supplies of the Supreme Court, including the necessary books and stationery, shall be paid by the Insular Government, and the necessary estimates for repairs, furniture and equipment of that portion of the Supreme Court building occupied by the Supreme Court, shall be made by the Sheriff of the city of Manila. Estimates for the purchase of necessary stationery and books for the use of that Court shall be made by the Clerk of that Court. All that part of Act No. 152 relating to the custody of court houses that is inconsistent with this section is hereby repealed."

SEC. 13. Said act is hereby amended by inserting an additional section, between sections 44 and 45, and relating to the Law Department of the city of Manila. Said new section shall be numbered section 44a and shall read as follows:

"Assessors in Courts in Manila.-The aid of assessors in the trial of any civil or criminal action in Courts of Justices of the Peace, Municipal Courts, or Courts of First Instance, within the city of Manila, may be invoked in the manner provided in the Code of Civil Procedure. It shall be the duty of the Advisory Board to prepare one list of the names of twenty-five residents of the municipality, best fitted by education, natural ability and reputation for probity to sit as assessors in the trial of actions in the Municipal Courts and Courts of Justices of the Peace, and a like list of persons to sit as assessors in the trial of actions in the Courts of First Instance within the city. The Advisory Board may at any time strike any name from the list so prepared, by reason of the death, permanent disability or unfitness of the person named; and in case names are so striken out, other names shall be added in their place, to be selected as in this - section provided. Parties desiring to avail themselves of the use of assessors in Courts of Justices of the Peace or Municipal Courts, shall proceed as provided in sections 58 to 62, inclusive, of the Code of Procedure in Civil Actions and Special Proceedings, in force October 1, 1901, and the method of summoning assessors and the compensation and oath and duties of assessors shall be as provided in those sections. Parties desiring to avail themselves of the use of assessors in Courts of First Instance shall proceed as provided in sections 154 to 161, inclusive, of said Code of Civil Procedure; and the method of summoning assessors, enforcing their attendance, excusing them from attendance, their compensation, oath, duties and effect of dissent from the opinion of the judge, shall be as provided in the last named sections."

SEC. 14. Section 45 of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"Duties of Chief of Fire Department.-There shall be, under the

Board, a Chief of the Fire Department. He shall have the management and control of all matters relating to the administration of the department as herein provided, and the organization, government, discipline and disposition of the fire force; shall have charge of fire engine houses, fire engines, hose carts, hooks and ladders, trucks and all other fire apparatus; shall have full police powers in the vicinity of fires; shall have authority to remove any building or other property whenever it shall become necessary to prevent the spreading of fire or to protect adjacent property; shall investigate and report upon the origin and cause of all fires occurring within the city. He shall inspect all buildings erected or under construction or repair within the city and determine whether they provide sufficient protection against fire and comply with the ordinances relating thereto; shall have charge of the city telegraph, telephone and fire alarm service; shall supervise and regulate the stringing, grounding and installation of wires for all electrical connections with a view to avoiding conflagrations, interference with public traffic or safety, or the necessary operations of the fire department; shall supervise, and regulate the manufacture, storage and use of petroleum, gas, acetylene, gunpowder and other highly combustible matter and explosives, and shall see that the ordinances relating to these subjects are enforced."

SEC. 15. Section 60 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"The cedula tax for the year 1901 shall be due and payable on the first day of December, 1901, and the cedula tax for 1902 and succeeding years shall be due and payable as other taxes, within three months prior to July 1st of each year."

SEC. 16. Section 64 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"The urbana and frontage taxes for the years 1899 and 1900 referred to in this section, are hereby declared to be the urbana and frontage taxes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899, and for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, respectively."

SEC. 17. All sections of Act No. 183 and of Act No. 185, and of other acts relating to the city of Manila wherever the words "Department of Fires and Building Inspection" appear, are so amended that the words "Fire Department" shall be substituted in lieu thereof."

SEC. 18. 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. 19. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, October 17, 1901.

[No. 268.]

AN ACT creating a bureau of architecture and construction of public buildings.

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby created, under the Department of Public Instruction, a Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings, which shall have charge of the construction and repair of public buildings belonging to the Insular Government, and of such 10613-02-3

other buildings or proposed buildings as may be assigned to it by the Civil Governor.

SEC. 2. There shall be a Chief of the Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings, who shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars ($4,000), payable monthly in money of the United States.

SEC. 3. The duties of the Chief of the Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings shall be:

1. To make all necessary plans and specifications for the construction and repair of public buildings and to send these plans and specifications, with estimate of cost, through the Secretary of Public Instruction, to the Civil Governor for his approval, and when approved by the Governor they shall be presented to the Commission with a requisition for an appropriation or appropriations for their execution.

2. To provide, in cases where it is required that work shall be done under contract, all means necessary for obtaining bids for the work to be done and to accept bids and award contracts, subject to the approval of the Civil Governor.

3. To superintend, either in person or through an officer of the Bureau appointed for that purpose, all the work of constructing and repairing public buildings authorized by the Insular Government.

SEC. 4. The following employés of the Bureau of Architecture and Construction, in addition to the Chief of the Bureau, are hereby authorized: One superintendent of construction, class 7; one chief clerk, class 8; two clerks, class 9; three draftsmen, class D; and one messenger, class I.

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, October 18, 1901.

[No. 269.]

AN ACT amending Act No. 140 so as to provide that sessions of the Court of First Instance for the provinces of Lepanto and Bontoc shall be held at Cervantes instead of at Cayan.

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

SECTION 1. That portion of section 3 of Act No. 140, entitled "An Act Defining the Judicial Districts of the Philippine Islands, Prescribing the Salaries of the Judges Thereof, and the Time When and the Place Where Terms of Court of First Instance shall be Held in the Several Provinces," which relates to the time and place of holding Courts of First Instance for the Provinces of Lepanto and Bontoc in the Second District, is hereby amended by striking out the word "Cayan" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Cervantes."

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, October 18, 1901.

[No. 270.]

AN ACT authorizing an increase in the clerical force in the office of the collector of customs at Cebú.

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

SECTION 1. The Collector of Customs is hereby authorized to employ seven additional men as guards and checkers, class J, at an annual compensation of two hundred and forty dollars ($240), payable monthly, to replace one corporal and five enlisted men now acting in that capacity, and whom the Commanding Officer of the Second District, Department of the Visayas, desires to have relieved as soon as practicable.

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, October 18, 1901.

[No. 271.]

AN ACT authorizing the holding of land by religious corporations or associations of whatever sect or denomination.

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

Whereas, under the Spanish regime and law it was not lawful for any church or religious association except the Catholic Church and its dependencies to hold land in the Philippine Islands for the purpose of the construction of churches, parsonages, or educational or charitable institutions, and

Whereas, by the Treaty of Paris the Philippine Islands passed under the control of the United States, which recognizes no state religion and treats all sects and denominations alike, therefore:

SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for all religious associations of whatever sect or denomination, whether incorporated in the Philippine Islands or in some other country or not incorporated at all, to hold land in the Philippine Islands upon which to build churches, parsonages, or educational or charitable institutions.

SEC. 2. Such religious institutions, if not incorporated, shall hold the land in the name of three trustees for the use of such associations; the trustees shall be selected by the directing body in the Philippine Islands for such associations, and vacancies occurring among the trustees by death, resignation or other cause, shall be filled in the same manner as the original selection.

SEC. 3. All laws in conflict with the provisions of sections 1 and 2 hereof are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of the bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with seetion 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 on its passage.

Enacted, October 19, 1901.

[No. 272.]

AN ACT amending Chapter XXVI, relating to proceedings in habeas corpus, of act No. 190, providing for a code of procedure in civil actions and special proceedings.

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

SECTION 1. Section 529 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 whole of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the following words:

"Not to apply in certain Cases.-Nothing in this chapter shall authorize the discharge of any person convicted of an offense or charged with an offense committed in any other part of the Philippine Islands, or in any part of the United States, and who, agreeable to law, ought to be delivered up to the executive power of the United States, or of any State thereof, where the offense is charged to have been committed; nor of any person suffering imprisonment under lawful judgment; nor shall any writ of habeas corpus be issued against a military officer or soldier who is detaining a prisoner in the Provinces of Batangas, La Laguna, Tayabas, Samar, Cebú and Bohol, and in any unorganized province or territory. It shall be a conclusive answer to a writ of habeas corpus against a military officer or soldier, and a sufficient excuse for not producing the prisoner in all other organized provinces than those herein named, if the Commanding General or any general officer in command of the department or district shall certify that the prisoner is held by him either:

"1. As a prisoner of war; or

"2. As a member of the Army, a civilian employé thereof, or a camp follower and subject to its discipline; but this paragraph shall not apply to pending cases; or

3. As a prisoner committed by a military court or commission prior to October 1, 1901; or

"4. As a prisoner arrested and held for trial before a military court or commission before October 15, 1901, for a violation of the laws of war committed before the same date; or

5. As a prisoner guilty of violations of the laws of war committed in the unpacified provinces and territory in this section named and who has escaped into provinces officially declared to be under civil control and has been there captured by military authorities and is held for trial for such violations of the laws of war."

All the other provisions of this chapter shall be subject to the limitations and restrictions contained in this section.

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy exactment 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, October 21, 1901.