TABLE OF CONTENTS. [No. 264.] An act appropriating two million four hundred and ninety thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars and two cents ($2,490,143.02). in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the expenses of the insular government and of the city of Manila for the fourth quarter of the year 1901 and other designated periods..... [No. 265.] An act requiring persons whom the collector of customs has reasonable grounds for believing guilty of aiding insurrection seeking to land in the Philippines to take an oath of allegiance and prescribing punishment for the violation thereof.. Page. 26 27 [No. 266.] An act creating the bureau of coast guard and transportation.__ [No. 267.] An act amending in several particulars act No. 183, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Manila ` [No. 268.] An act creating a bureau of architecture and construction of public buildings. 33 [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 34 [No. 270.] An act authorizing an increase in the clerical force in the office of the collector of customs at Cebú. 35 [No. 271.] An act authorizing the holding of land by religious corporations or associations of whatever sect or denomination 35 [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 36 [No. 273.] An act creating a bureau of archives 37 [No. 274.] An act prohibiting the unauthorized destruction of timber on public lands 38 [No. 275.] An act amending act No. 55, relating to cruelty to animals in transportation, so as to require proper means of securing animals in transit and of loading and unloading them.... [No. 276.] An act in amendment of act No. 226, authorizing the provincial board for the province of Cebú to use the funds therein mentioned for the relief of needy persons [No. 277.] An act defining the law of libel and threats to publish a libel, making libel and threats to publish a libel misdemeanors, giving a right of civil action therefor, and making obscene or indecent publications misdemeanors. 39 39 V An act providing that the time within which the cedula tax for var 1907 shall be due and payable in each province may be extended discretion of the provincial treasurer to a period not later than the of January, 1902. An act prescribing the method of executing leases of real estate at anvending at Na 83, as amended by act No. 133, and srending svan 1 of set No. 196. authorizing the loan Page. 41 41 42 42 43 43 44 44 45 [No. 291.] An act appropriating four hundred and twenty thousand dollars ($420,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, in money of the United States, to pay various expenses incurred in the United States for the benefit of the insular government [No. 292.] An act defining the crimes of treason, insurrection, sedition, con- spiracies to commit such crimes, seditious utterances whether written or spoken, the formation of secret political societies, the administering or taking of oaths to commit crimes or to prevent the discovering of the same, and the violation of oaths of allegiance, and prescribing punish- [No. 293.] An act declaring the rancheria of Tubo to be a part of the prov- [No. 294.] An act authorizing the exercise of the right of eminent domain as to personal property and property that is partly personal and partly real, and providing the method of procedure for exercising that right ... [No. 295.] An act appropriating six thousand dollars ($6,000), in money of the United States, for payment of the sum determined to be equitably due the De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Company for disburse- ments in connection with the construction of the Insular Cold Storage [No. 296.] An act creating a bureau of public printing [No. 297.] An act appropriating eleven thousand (11,000) pesos for the pur- chase of land and buildings in Baguio, Benguet, for the use of the insular government and of the provincial government of Benguet [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 hun- dred dollars ($500) as a deficiency to pay temporary clerks previously [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 [No. 300.] An act amending sections 47, 52, 53, and 63 of act No. 136, pro- viding for the organization of courts in the Philippine Islands [No. 301.] An act in amendment of act No. 25 relating to the appointment and removal of subordinate officers and employés in certain bureaus.. [No. 302.] An act making temporary provisions for the fees of officers of courts in criminal proceedings, and authorizing provincial fiscals to admin- [No. 305.] An act amending section 4 of act No. 268, entitled "An act creating a bureau of architecture and construction of public buildings"... [No. 306.] An act to amend section 5 of the "civil-service act," and sec- tions 3 and 4 of act No. 167, extending the provisions of the civil-service act and for other purposes by providing for further extensions of this act.. [No. 278.] An act providing that the time within which the cedula tax for the year 1901 shall be due and payable in each province may be extended in the discretion of the provincial treasurer to a period not later than the first day of January, 1902 Page. 41 [No. 279.] An act prescribing the method of executing leases of real estate to or by the insular government....... 41 [No. 280.] An act amending act No. 83, as amended by act No. 133, and authorizing the civil governor to temporarily fill vacancies in provincial offices. [No. 281.] An act amending section 1 of act No. 196, authorizing the loan from the insular treasury of twenty-five thousand dollars to the provinces of Capiz, Ambos, Camarines, and Iloilo, by permitting the provincial board to purchase rice and to pay wages in rice instead of money... [No. 282.] An act amending paragraphs 365 and 366 of section 11 of the tariff-revision law of 1901 [No. 283.] An act appropriating fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), in money of the United States, for making repairs and additions to the building to be occupied by the public printing office, for grading and laying out the grounds about the building and repairing the fence surrounding these grounds. [No. 284.] An act establishing in Manila an insular museum of ethnology, natural history, and commerce, and appropriating eight thousand dollars ($8,000), in money of the United States, for maintaining the same and for paying the expenses of collecting, caring for and preserving the objects illustrating the ethnology of the Philippine Islands [No. 285.] An act providing clerical assistance in the department of the interior, the department of commerce and police, the department of finance and justice, and the department of public instruction.. [No. 286.] An act reorganizing the police department of the city of Manila. [No. 287.] An act making available all funds previously appropriated for payment of scouts and scout interpreters for services rendered down to the date in the month of October, 1901, when said scouts and scout interpreters were mustered out of the service of the Philippine Archipelago, irrespective of the quarter for which such appropriations were originally made..... [No. 288.] An act repealing paragraph (d) of section 8 of the municipal code and all acts amendatory thereof, so far as concerns the town of Pilar in the province of Sorsogon [No. 289.] An act appropriating twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) in insular currency for the construction and repair of public wharves and landing facilities in the military department of Mindanao and Joló..... [No. 290.] An act providing an inexpensive method of administration upon the estates of civil employés of the Philippine government who are citizens of the United States and who die in the service of the insular government, leaving small estates upon which no regular administration is deemed advisable... 42 42 43 43 44 44 45 47 48 48 49 |