document, pamphlet or volume printed, which shall be properly bound, indexed and preserved in this library; also to preserve in the office of the Public Printer one copy of each form, sheet, document, pamphlet or volume printed, numbered according to the numbers of the orders under which they are printed; also to forward to the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., one copy of each publication of a public nature.

SEC. 3. The Public Printer shall give a bond in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) conditioned faithfully to discharge all the duties of his office, and to account for all moneys and other property coming into his hands as such Public Printer.

SEC. 4. There shall be a Chief Clerk of class 4, in the Bureau of Public Printing, appointed by the Public Printer subject to the confirmation of the Civil Governor, who shall be a practical printer and versed in the art of bookbinding; one foreman of composing room, one foreman of bookbindery, one foreman of press-room, and one chief electrician-machinist, of class 5, all of whom must be practically and thoroughly acquainted with their respective trades; a chief proofreader, who must be a practical printer, an electrotyper, who must also be skilled in the process of stereotyping, a photo-engraver, and an estimate clerk, who must be a practical printer, of class 6; an assistant foreman of composing-room, an assistant foreman of bookbindery, an assistant foreman of press-room, an electrotype finisher, and a compositor in charge of making up and imposing, of class 7; a clerk in charge of stores and paper warehouse, a stenographer and typewriter and one clerk, of class 9; two watchmen, class D; two messengers, at an annual salary of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) each; and such other laborers, skilled and unskilled, as may, from time to time, be recommended as necessary by the Public Printer and approved by the Secretary of Public Instruction.

SEC. 5. The Public Printer shall cause to be stereotyped or electrotyped all matter when the Secretary of Public Instruction shall certify that there is reason to believe that a large number of copies will be needed, or that there will be a demand for the printing of other copies after the first order shall have been exhausted.

SEC. 6. On or before the twenty-fifth day of December the Public Printer shall submit to the Secretary of Public Instruction an estimate of paper and supplies of all kinds which will be required for the Public Printing Office during the half year beginning with the first of July following, and on or before the twenty-fifth of June a similar estimate for the half year beginning with the first of January following. SEC. 7. All moneys received during any month from sales of copies of forms, sheets, documents, pamphlets or volumes, and of all paper shavings and other waste and condemned material shall be deposited by the Public Printer in the Insular Treasury within the first five days of the succeeding month together with a detailed statement of the moneys so received and deposited, and a detailed statement of the moneys so received and deposited shall be included in his annual report to the Civil Governor, and no sales shall be made on credit.

SEC. 8. All printing offices belonging to the Insular Government which are now in operation or may hereafter be put into operation shall by law be considered a part of the Philippine Public Printing Office, and shall be under the control of the Public Printer, who, with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, may abolish any of these offices whenever, in his judgment, the economy of the public service would be thereby advanced.

SEC. 9. All work done in the Public Printing Office shall be ordered on blanks prepared for that purpose by the Public Printer, and these blanks shall be numbered consecutively in a series for the Civil Governor and one for each department, and must be signed by the Civil Governor or the Secretary of the Department for which the work is to be done, as the case may be, and the Governor or the Secretary signing the requisition shall specify and determine the number of copies to be printed and shall be held responsible for all work thus ordered. The Public Printer is authorized to execute all printing necessary for the conduct of his office and include an account of the same in his annual report.

SEC. 10. The foremen of the several departments of the Public Printing Office shall make out estimates of the quantity and kind of material required for their respective departments and file written requests therefor with the Public Printer, stating the time when it will be needed. The Public Printer may furnish to the foremen supplies on these requisitions and they shall receipt to him and be held accountable for all material so received.

SEC. 11. If the Public Printer, Chief Clerk, any foreman or other employé shall, by himself, or through others, corruptly collude, or have any secret understanding with any person to defraud the Insular Government or whereby the Insular Government shall be made to sustain a loss, he shall, on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, forfeit his office and be imprisoned for a term of not more than seven years and fined in a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars.

SEC. 12. Neither the Public Printer, Chief Clerk, any foreman, nor any of their assistants shall, during continuance in office, have any interest, direct or indirect, in the publication of any newspaper or periodical or in any printing, binding, engraving or lithographing of any kind, or in any contract for furnishing paper or other material connected with the public printing, binding, lithographing or engraving; and for every violation of this section the party offending shall, on conviction before any court of competent jurisdiction, be imprisoned for a term of not less than one nor more than five years and shall be fined in a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars.

SEC. 13. The Public Printer is hereby authorized, whenever the warehouse space at his disposal is inadequate to contain supplies that must be stored, to procure suitable storage room as near the Public Printing Office as practicable for the temporary storage of papers and other supplies for the Public Printing Office: provided, that no contract for lease of buildings or accommodations for this purpose shall be made or entered into for a longer period than one year, and that every such contract shall be first submitted to the Civil Governor for his approval and be approved by him.

SEC. 14. In case of the death, resignation, absence or sickness of the Public Printer, the Chief Clerk of the Public Printing Office shall perform the duties of the Public Printer until a successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease; but the Civil Governor may, in his discretion, authorize and direct any other officer of the Insular Government, whose appointment is vested in the Civil Governor, to perform the duties of the vacant office until a successor is appointed or the sickness or absence of the Public Printer shall cease.

SEC. 15. The Public Printer shall furnish to all applicants giving notice before the matter is put to press, not exceeding two hundred and fifty to any one applicant, copies of bills, reports and documents,

said applicants paying in advance the cost of such printing, with ten per centum added: provided, that such requests shall have received the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction: and provided, furthermore, that the work necessary to satisfy the requests shall not interfere with the printing for the Government.

SEC. 16. The Public Printer shall cause work to be done for the Insular Government in the Public Printing Office at night as well as through the day when the exigencies of the public service require it: provided, that the pay of all employés engaged on night work, between the hours of five postmeridian and eight antemeridian, shall be twenty per centum in addition to the amount paid for day labor. SEC. 17. The Public Printer may employ such a number of apprentices, or pupils from the Manila Trade School, as in the judgment of the Secretary of Public Instruction will be consistent with the economical service of the office, and this number shall be determined by the Secretary of Public Instruction.

SEC. 18. The forms and style in which the printing or binding ordered by the Civil Governor, or by the Secretary of any department, shall be executed and the material and the size of type to be used shall be determined by the Public Printer, subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Public Instruction, having proper regard for economy, workmanship and the purposes for which the work is needed.

SEC. 19. Wherever in this act sums of money are mentioned they are stated in money of the United States, but they may be paid either in money of the United States or in local currency as the appropriating act may provide.

SEC. 20. 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. 21. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, November 7, 1901.

[No. 297.]

AN ACT appropriating eleven thousand (11,000) pesos for the purchase of land and buildings in Baguio, Benguet, for the use of the insular government and of the provincial government of Benguet.

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

SECTION 1. The sum of eleven thousand (11,000) pesos is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of two houses and eighty acres of land at Baguio, in the Province of Benguet, for the use of the Insular Government and of the Provincial Government of Benguet.

SEC. 2. These funds shall be disbursed by the Disbursing Officer of the United States Philippine Commission.

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this 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. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, November 11, 1901.

[No. 298.]

AN ACT providing for the employment of five (5) additional clerks of class 9 in the office of the Auditor of the Philippine Archipelago, and making an appropriation therefor, and also appropriating five hundred dollars ($500) as a deficiency to pay temporary clerks previously authorized.

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

SECTION 1. Authority is hereby given for the employment of five (5) additional clerks of class 9, in the office of the Auditor of the Philippine Archipelago, and the sum of eight hundred and thirtythree dollars and thirty-three cents ($833.33) is hereby appropriated for the payment of the salaries thereof from the eleventh day of November, 1901, to and including the thirty-first day of December, 1901.

SEC. 2. The sum of five hundred dollars ($500) is hereby appropriated as a deficiency appropriation to pay temporary clerks heretofore employed in the office of the Auditor of the Philippine Archipelago, for bringing up arrears of work.

SEC. 3. The term "dollars," wherever used in this act, means dollars 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 on its passage.

Enacted, November 11, 1901.

[No. 299.]

AN ACT authorizing an increase in the clerical force in the offices of the Sheriff and City Attorney of the city of Manila.

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

SECTION 1. The following additional employés are hereby authorized in the office of the Sheriff of the city of Manila: One clerk of class D, two deputies to act as bailiffs for the Courts of Justices of the Peace, at a monthly salary of fifteen ($15) dollars each, and two bailiffs of class K, to attend upon the Courts of First Instance.

SEC. 2. The following additional employés are hereby authorized in the office of the City Attorney of the city of Manila: One clerk of class 9, and one clerk of class C.

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. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, November 11, 1901.

[No. 300.]

AN ACT amending sections 47, 52, 53 and 63 of Act No. 136, providing for the organization of courts in the Philippine Islands.

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

SECTION 1. Section 47 of Act No. 136, providing for the organization of courts in the Philippine Islands, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"But, whenever it is impracticable for either the Attorney General or Solicitor General personally to repair to any province in the Islands and assist the Provincial Fiscal there in the discharge of his duties or in any prosecution against an officer of any branch of the government, in accordance with the provisions of sub-section E of section 45, it shall be lawful for the Attorney General, with the prior approval of the Civil Governor, to appoint some person who may be eligible to the office of Attorney General temporarily to represent him in such prosecution. The person so appointed shall have all the power of the Attorney General or Solicitor General in conducting the prosecution for which he may have been especially appointed as in this section provided. The compensation of the person so appointed shall be fifteen dollars per day for the time necessarily employed in the service of the government, and actual traveling expenses necessarily incurred in the performance of the duties.'

SEC. 2. Section 52 of said act is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"Whenever it shall be made to appear that the Judge of any Court of First Instance, after holding the regular terms of court in his district, will have time exceeding one month's duration that cannot be occupied in his regular judicial work, such Judge may be designated in writing by the Secretary of Finance and Justice to assist the Attorney General in the performance of the duties of his office in the city of Manila for the period of time when he will otherwise be disengaged. Upon such designation, it shall be the duty of the Judge so assigned to assist the Attorney General in the performance of the duties imposed upon him by virtue of the provisions of chapter 3 of this act. The Judge so assigned shall receive, as an allowance for expenses, an additional compensation of four dollars per day for each business day he is so engaged."

SEC. 3. Section 53 of said act is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"But in those provinces of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Judicial Districts in which provincial governments have not been organized, the Court may hold special sessions at such times and places therein as the Judge may determine will best promote the public interests and convene private individuals; but the regular terms of courts in those regions as provided by law shall be held at the times and places required by law."

SEC. 4. Section 63 of said act is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"Provided, nevertheless, that the Judge, Fiscal and Clerk for the Fourteenth Judicial District shall receive each an allowance of three pesos per day for subsistence while necessarily absent from Joló in the performance of official duties at regular or special sessions of the court in other parts of the district; and further provided that the Judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District, the Clerk and Fiscal of the