sate him for all commutations and allowances from which he is excluded as an officer of the Army by reason of his detail for civil duty; cost of transportation herein provided being construed to include subsistence when the same is included in transportation by commercial steamship lines.

The sum of two thousand, four hundred and ninety-three dollars and forty-four cents ($2,493.44), appropriated in Act 143 "For repairs and equipment of Leper Hospital at Palestina, Ambos Camarines,” under the head of "Chief Quartermaster, Division of the Philippines," is hereby made available for expenditure for the same purpose during the fiscal year 1902, and authority is hereby granted to the Chief Quartermaster to turn over the unexpended balance of such appropriation to the Provincial Treasurer of the Province of Ambos Camarines, to be expended under the direction of the Provincial Board.

The Treasurer of the Province of Cebu is hereby authorized to pay out of any funds in the Provincial Treasury the amount due for rent of a building occupied by the Governor of the Province during the months of February and March, 1902, while the quarters assigned to the Governor of the Province were occupied by the Court of First Instance.

The Treasurer of the Province of Misamis is hereby authorized to pay the expenses incurred in the hire of a steam launch for the Governor of the Province while on a visit to the Municipality of Gingo-og for the purpose of organizing the Board of Election Judges; anything in Act 128 limiting the traveling expenses of provincial officers of the Province of Misamis to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 4. All balances to the credit of appropriations made prior to Act No. 330, on the books of the Auditor, except the balances in appropriations made by Act No. 1 for roads and bridges; in Act No. 22 for harbor improvements; in Act No. 69 for the San José litigation; in Act No. 229 for Aun Tan; in Act No. 311 "for the payment of expenses of transportation, both passenger and freight, heretofore lawfully incurred which is not otherwise specifically provided for," and the reimbursable appropriations for the Insular Purchasing Agent and for the Philippines Constabulary, are hereby made no longer available for withdrawal, and the Auditor for the Archipelago is hereby directed to carry such balances to the credit of unappropriated general revenues in the Treasury, and all deposits hereafter made to the credit of said appropriations shall likewise revert to the credit of unappropriated general revenues. The balances of appropriations remaining available for withdrawal, as herein provided, and the balances of appropriations in Act No. 330 and subsequent acts are hereby made available for withdrawal in local currency at the ratio for the current quarter, except such appropriations as may have been made payable in United States currency. Nothing in this paragraph is to be construed as authorizing the payment of any amount in local currency in excess of the amount originally made payable in such local currency for a specific purpose by the act appropriating the money for the payment thereof.

SEC. 5. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this appropriation 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, April 12, 1902.

[No. 390.]

AN ACT amending act No. 140 so as to authorize judges of courts of first instance to hold special terms of their several courts at places within their respective districts other than those fixed in said act.

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

SECTION 1. Act No. 140, entitled "An Act Defining the Judicial Districts of the Philippine Islands, Prescribing the Salaries of the Judges Thereof, and the Times When and the Places Where Terms of Courts of the First Instance shall be Held in the Several Districts," is hereby amended so as to authorize special terms of the several courts of first instance to be held at other places within the several districts created by said act whenever in the opinion of the Civil Governor the same may be necessary to the economical and speedy administration of justice, and he is authorized to direct the holding of special terms of said courts, and it shall be the duty of judges of courts of first instance to hold said terms of courts as directed by the Civil Governor: provided, however, that it shall be the duty of the judges of courts of first instance to hold the regular terms of their respective courts at the times and places prescribed in said act No. 140.

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 April 17, 1902.

[No. 391.]

AN ACT authorizing provincial boards to appropriate provincial funds for use in the suppression of epidemic diseases.

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

SECTION 1. Provincial Boards are hereby authorized to appropriate provincial funds for the payment, in whole or in part, for buildings or personal property destroyed by order of municipal, provincial, or insular health boards: provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting the right of such health boards to require the owners of buildings to keep the same in sanitary condition, or to abate the same as nuisances if not so kept, without compensation; the purpose of this section being to authorize the payment provided for above in such cases as may seem to the provincial boards equitable and just.

SEC. 2. Provincial Boards are hereby further authorized to loan money to any municipality within their respective provinces for the purpose of combatting contagious diseases when such municipality has not in its treasury funds sufficient to combat contagious diseases prevalent or likely to become prevalent in such municipality, and to meet its other necessary and lawful expenses.

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with sec

tion 2 of "An Act Prescribing the Order of Procedure by the Commission in the Enactment of Laws," passed September 26, 1900.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, April 18, 1902.

[No. 392.]

AN ACT authorizing the employment of persons at salaries lower than those for which appropriation is made, and designating persons authorized to administer oaths for the civil service board.

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

SECTION 1. The head of any department or bureau may, with the approval of the Philippine Civil Service Board, appoint employés at salaries lower than those authorized and appropriated for: provided, that the aggregate number of employés so authorized and appropriated for shall not be increased.

SEC. 2. The members of the Civil Service Board, or any examiner duly authorized by it, may administer such oaths as may be necessary in the transaction of the official business of the Board.

SEC. 3. 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. 4. The provisions of this act shall be effective as of April 1st, 1902.

Enacted, April 18, 1902.

[No. 393.]

AN ACT organizing the Bureau of Agriculture and making certain appropriations to meet the expenses of the Bureau.

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

SECTION 1. The following officers and employés of the Bureau of Agriculture are hereby authorized: A Chief of Bureau at four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) per year from December 1, 1901; one Expert in Animal Industry at two thousand, five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per year; one Chief Clerk at two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per year, who shall also act as Disbursing Clerk without additional compensation, from February 18, 1902; one Botanist and Assistant Agrostologist at two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per year from February 18, 1902; one Soil Expert at two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per year; one Superintendent of the San Ramon Farm at one thousand, eight hundred dollars ($1,800.00) per year; one Expert Tropical Agriculturist at one thousand four hundred dollars ($1,400.00) per year from February 1, 1902; one Expert in Plant Culture and Breeding at one thousand, two hundred dollars ($1,200.00) per year from February 1, 1902; one Stenographer and Typewriter at one thousand, two hundred dollars ($1,200.00) per year from February 1, 1902, one Expert in Farm Machinery and Farm Management at one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per year from February 1, 1902; one Translator at one thousand dol

lars ($1,000.00) per year; one Clerk class C; one Messenger at one hundred and eighty dollars ($180.00) per year; one Janitor åt ninety dollars ($90.00) per year; all in money of the United States.

SEC. 2. The following sums in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated for the purposes named out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated:

(a) Salaries for the Bureau of Agriculture for the fiscal year, 1902, seven thousand, three hundred and twenty dollars and twenty-eight cents ($7,320.28).

(b) For wages of temporary clerical and technical employés, special agents, skilled and unskilled laborers, for the quarter ending June 30, 1902, three thousand, two hundred dollars ($3,200.00).

(e) For contingent expenses including the collecting or purchasing of seeds, roots, bulbs and plants for distribution or experimental purposes; photographs and illustrations for reports; for printing of bulletins and other publications; for the erection of the necessary buildings upon the experimental stations and farms; for the purchase of necessary working animals, harnesses, wagons, farm machinery and tools; for the employment of laborers on experimental stations and farms; for office furniture and supplies, scientific instruments, books and periodicals; for repairs, transportation, freight and express charges, seven thousand, eight hundred dollars ($7,800.00).

All funds appropriated by this act shall be disbursed in local currency on the basis of two dollars and twenty-seven cents ($2.27) in local currency for one dollar ($1.00) in money of the United States.

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is 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. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, April 30, 1902.

[No. 394.]

AN ACT providing for the closing of the port of Siassi, district of Jolo, as a port of entry, and for the opening of the port of Aparri, district of Manila, and amending acts Nos. 355 and 367 in certain particulars.

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

SECTION 1. The Port of Siassi, in the Jolo Collection District, is hereby discontinued as a port of entry, and section 16 of Act No. 355 and section 28 of Act No. 367, making provision for such port and for employés thereat are hereby repealed. The port of Siassi, however, will remain open to the coastwise trade.

SEC. 2. The Port of Aparri, in the Manila Collection District, is hereby created a port of entry in charge of an Acting Collector of Customs.

SEC. 3. The following employés are hereby authorized for the Aparri Custom House, and in the office of the Acting Collector of Customs for the port of Aparri: One Acting Collector of Customs of class 6, who shall act as disbursing clerk without additional compensation; one clerk of class D; four boatmen of class K at seventy-two dollars ($72.00) per annum each, in money of the United States.

SEC. 4. 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. 5. This act shall take effect June 1, 1902.

Enacted, April 30, 1902.

[No 395.]

AN ACT amending act No. 166, which created a special court for the trial of certain actions in the island of Negros, so as to authorize the judge of that special court to make interlocutory orders and conduct certain proceedings relating to actions instituted in the island of Negros since the 16th day of June,

1901.

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

SECTION 1. Act No. 166, entitled "An Act Creating a Special Court for the Trial of Certain Actions, Appellate and Original, Pending in the Courts of the Island of Negros on or before the 16th Day of June, 1901," is hereby amended by the addition of a new section to said act, following Section 6 thereof, as follows:

SEC. 7. The judge of said court shall have power to grant and dissolve temporary injunctions, to make and discharge orders of arrest and of attachment, to issue writs of habeas corpus, and to hear and determine the legality of the detention of the persons brought before him on writs of habeas corpus in any action now or heretofore or hereafter pending or instituted in either province of the Island of Negros, with the same effect in all respects as though such injunction had been granted or dissolved, or such order of arrest or attachment ordered or vacated or such writ of habeas corpus had been issued and the proceedings thereon determined by the regular judge of the Court of First Instance for the two provinces aforesaid."

Sections 7 and 8 of said Act 166 are hereby amended to read Sections 8 and 9 respectively.

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, May 6, 1902.

[No. 396.]

AN ACT so amending Act No. 136, Providing for the Organization of Courts, as to increase the number of Judges of Courts of First Instance and fixing the salaries of the additional judges provided for.

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

SECTION 1. Section 49 of Act No. 136, entitled "An Act Providing for the Organization of Courts in the Philippine Islands" is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"In Manila.-There shall be one Court of First Instance for the