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Organization Thereof," and of its records, shall be the English language, anything in existing legislation to the contrary notwithstanding. That Court shall make suitable provision by its rules and by the use of interpreters for the convenience of parties who are unable to speak the English language.

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 22, 1902.

[No. 404.]

AN ACT so amending Act No. 302, which made temporary provision for fees of officers of courts in criminal proceedings, as to limit the fees thereby allowed to a reasonable compensation when the service extends beyond the province of the officer

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

SECTION 1. Section 1 of Act No. 302, entitled "An Act Making Provision for Fees of Officers of Courts in Criminal Proceedings, and Authorizing Provincial Fiscals to Administer Oaths in Certain Cases,' is hereby amended by inserting at the end of the eighth line of the printed copy of said Act, after the words "Special Proceedings," and before the words "Such fees," the following words:

"Provided, nevertheless, that whenever the duties of a Governor, Sheriff, Deputy or Special Deputy, or other officer of a court in criminal proceedings, either before or after final judgment, require travel, or transportation of prisoners, or furnishing food for prisoners, in whole or in part outside the province of the Governor, Sheriff, or Deputy, or other officer, in such case the officer performing the service, transporting the prisoners and furnishing food for them, shall receive a compensation of two dollars ($2.00) per day in money of the United States or its authorized equivalent for each day necessarily employed in performing the service, and the actual necessary expenses incurred in traveling and in transporting prisoners, and in furnishing food for them, and no more. If the officer performing the service in the transportation of prisoners requires assistance for guarding the prisoners, it shall be furnished by the Insular Constabulary, without additional compensation, the actual necessary expenses incurred in traveling, by the member or members of the Insular Constabulary performing this service, to be paid by the officer and be reimbursed as in case of other expenses of the service."

And by adding at the end of said Section 1, the following words: "The auditing herein provided for is subject to the provisions of subdivision 6 of section 1 of Act No. 133, amending the Provincial Government Act."

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, May 22, 1902.

[No. 405.]

AN ACT construing certain sections of Act No. 136, relating to the appointment of notaries public.

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

SECTION 1. Whereas certain judges of Courts of First Instance have heretofore appointed notaries public by reason of having construed section 82 of Act No. 136, entitled "An Act Providing for the Organization of Courts in the Philippine Islands," as authorizing them forthwith to make such appointments; and

Whereas such appointments are not deemed to be authorized by the true meaning and intent of said Act No. 136;

It is hereby declared that section 79 of said Act No. 136 shall be deemed to continue in force the notarial laws, and orders, and regulations, and general instructions relating to notaries public that were in force at the time of the enactment of said Act No. 136, until the enactment of a new system of registration of land titles whereby notaries public shall no longer be legal depositories of original instruments affecting titles to land, and that persons authorized under military orders and by appointments made at any time by the Military Governor, or the Commission, or the Civil Governor with the advice and consent of the Commission, to perform the duties of notaries public, shall continue in the due performance thereof in accordance with the laws, regulations, instructions and modifications relating to notaries public, unless such officials shall be lawfully removed, and that sections 81 and 82 shall be deemed to prohibit the appointment by judges of the Courts of First Instance of notaries public before the enactment of the new system of registration of land titles, as above stated, and that the appointment of notaries public by judges. of the Courts of First Instance heretofore made are void and of no effect: Provided, nevertheless, that the notarial acts that have been performed by notaries appointed by judges of Courts of First Instance, under the supposed authority of said Act No. 136, are hereby validated and declared to be lawful and binding as fully as though in fact such appointments had been lawfully made.

Enacted, May 22, 1902.

[No. 406.]

AN ACT appropriating the sum of one hundred and six thousand, two hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-six cents ($106,212.76), in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for certain expenses of the insular government and of the city of Manila for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902.

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

SECTION 1. The following sums, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appro

priated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the purposes and objects hereinafter named, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902:

For miscellaneous expenses incurred for the benefit of the Government of the Philippine Islands in the United States, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).

UNITED STATES PHILIPPINE COMMISSION.

Expenses of civil employees not otherwise provided for, United States Philippine Commission, 1902: For salaries of employees appointed in the United States to the Philippine Civil Service while traveling from the United States to the Philippine Islands, for the actual and necessary traveling expenses and subsistence of such employees while enroute, for salaries of provincial officers transferred from one province to another during the time necessarily occupied in making the transfer as provided in Act No. 320, Section 1 (a), three thousand dollars ($3,000).

BUREAU OF PHILIPPINES CONSTABULARY.

Commissary stores, Bureau of Philippines Constabulary, 1902: For the purchase and transportation of commissary stores, forty-two thousand, five hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-two cents ($42,581.22).

CITY OF MANILA.

Salaries and wages, Department of Police, City of Manila, 1902: For salaries of special policemen during the cholera epidemic, ten thousand, six hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty-four cents ($10,631.54).

Total of appropriations for all purposes, one hundred and six thousand, two hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-six cents ($106,212.76), in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SEC. 2. The sum of forty-four thousand and fifty-two dollars and eighty-seven cents ($44,052.87), being the equivalent of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) local currency at the ratio of two dollars and twenty-seven cents ($2.27) local currency for one dollar ($1.00) in money of the United States, of the reimbursable appropriation for the Insular Purchasing Agent appropriated in Act No. 264, is hereby made available for disbursement in United States currency.

SEC. 3. All funds appropriated by this act shall be disbursed in local currency on the basis of two dollars and twenty-seven cents ($2.27) local currency for one dollar ($1.00) in money of the United States, except the sum appropriated for miscellaneous expenses incurred for the benefit of the Government of the Philippine Islands in the United States, and the amount appropriated for the Bureau of Philippines Constabulary, which shall be disbursed in money of the United States.

SEC. 4. 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. 5. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, May 24, 1902.

[No. 407.]

AN ACT amending Section 12 of Act No. 102, providing for employés in the office of the General Superintendent of Public Instruction, as amended by Acts Nos. 197 and 339, by providing for the appointment of a property clerk in said office.

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

SECTION 1. The second paragraph of Section 12, of Act No. 102, as amended by Acts Nos. 197 and 339, is hereby amended by reducing the number of clerks of Class 7 therein provided from four to three, and inserting one property clerk of Class 5, and by adding at the end thereof, the following:

"It shall be the duty of the property clerk to receive, care for, and issue, under the instructions of the General Superintendent, all school books, supplies and other property belonging to the Bureau of Public Instruction and to account for same to the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago in accordance with law. He shall be held responsible for all damage to or for loss or destruction of such property under and subject to the provisions of Act No. 215, and acts in amendment thereof. He shall give bond to the Government of the Philippine Archipelago in such amount as may be fixed by the Insular Treasurer, who shall approve the sufficiency of the surety or sureties thereon, and with whom the bond shall be filed and safely kept."

Enacted, May 24, 1902.

[No. 408.]

AN ACT providing for the temporary assignment of officials and employés to perform the duties of heads of bureaus, and of other officials or employés in case of the temporary absence or inability of the official who by law is entrusted with the performance of such duties.

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

SECTION 1. In case of the temporary absence or disability of the head of any office or bureau established by law, any official or employé in the office or bureau may be designated by the Secretary of the Department under which the office or bureau is established, temporarily to perform the duties of such head during such absence or disability, and it shall be the duty of the person so designated to perform the duties of the head of the office or bureau without additional compensation. In case the office or bureau is not by law under the charge of the Secretary of any Department, then the designation in this section provided shall be made by the Civil Governor.

SEC. 2. In case of the temporary absence or disability of any subordinate officer or employé in any office or bureau, the head of such office or bureau may designate any other subordinate official or employé in the office or bureau temporarily to perform the duties of the official or employé who is thus absent or disabled, and it shall be

the duty of the person so designated to perform the duties so assigned to him, without additional compensation.

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, May 28, 1902.

[No. 409.]

AN ACT extending the times within which payment of taxes on real estate in the City of Manila for the years 1901 and 1902 may be made without suffering a penalty for non-payment.

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

SECTION 1. The time within which payment may be made of taxes on real estate in the City of Manila without suffering the penalty for non-payment provided in Section 47 of Act No. 183 and the amendments thereto, is hereby extended to July 1, 1902, in the case of such taxes for the year 1901, and to September 1, 1902, in the case of such taxes for the year 1902.

Enacted, May 28, 1902.

[No. 410.]

AN ACT providing for the organization of a provincial government in the territory comprised in the comandancias of Lepanto, Bontoc and Amburayan, and the territory lying between Abra, Cagayan and Bontoc not included within the limits of any province; and providing for justices of the peace in this territory, and in the province of Nueva Vizcaya.

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

SECTION 1. The territory hitherto comprised in the comandancias of Lepanto, Bontoc and Amburayan, together with the territory lying between the boundaries of Abra, Cagayan and Bontoc, and not hitherto included within the limits of any province organized under the Provincial Government Act, is hereby constituted a province, which shall be known as the Province of Lepanto-Bontoc. This province shall be divided into three sub-provinces as follows:

(a) The sub-province of Lepanto, which shall comprise the territory hitherto included in the Comandancia of Lepanto.

(b) The sub-province of Bontoc, which shall comprise the territory hitherto included in the Comandancia of Bontoc, and that limited by the boundaries of Abra, Cagayan and Bontoc, and not hitherto included within the boundaries of any province organized under the Provincial Government Act.

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