in the regular military establishment of the United States, were mustered out of the service of the Philippine Government.

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 31, 1901.

[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.

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

SECTION 1. Paragraph (d) of section 8 of the Municipal Code and all acts amendatory thereof are hereby repealed so far as concerns the town of Pilar in the Province of Sorsogon and the inhabitants thereof.

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 31, 1901.

[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.

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), in insular currency, for the purchase of materials for the construction and repair of public wharfs and landing facilities in the Military Department of Mindanao and Joló. The funds by this act appropriated are available only for the payment of the draftsman hereinafter provided for, and for the purchase of tools, implements and materials for the construction and repair of public wharfs and landing facilities at Zamboanga, Joló, Paran-parang, Puerto Princesa and Cagayán, in said Department. The allotments of said funds to the work to be performed at the several places named shall be made under the direction of the General of the United States Army, commanding in the Department of Mindanao and Joló, and he is authorized to vary the allotments from time to time, as may be found to be in the interest of the public service, to the end that such funds as are not needed at one place may be expended elsewhere, within the limits of the general project in view and the appropriation hereby made.

SEC. 2. The General commanding said Department is also hereby

authorized to employ and to pay from the funds herein appropriated one draftsman, at a monthly compensation of one hundred dollars ($100), in insular currency, to date from the first day of August, 1901, to be employed in connection with the work for which the within appropriation is made, and likewise in the preparation of a map of Mindanao and adjacent islands.

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 1, 1901.

[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.

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

SECTION 1. Whenever any civilian employé, who is a citizen of the United States in the service of the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands or any branch thereof, shall die in that service leaving estate in the Philippine Islands, no part of which is real estate, and the entire assets belonging to said estate shall be personal and shall not exceed in value the sum of five hundred dollars, and no regular administration in accordance with the provisions of law provided in the Code of Procedure in Civil Actions and Special Proceedings in the Philippine Islands shall have been had, the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago is authorized, and it is hereby made his duty, to take possession of the estate of such deceased person and to make a complete inventory thereof, and to file the same with the Auditor of the Philippine Archipelago. Upon taking possession of such estate, the Treasurer shall ascertain by the best means within his power, the names and residences of the persons who are lawfully entitled to the same and shall transmit the same to the persons whom he shall adjudge to be lawfully entitled thereto, upon receiving proper vouchers for the same. Before transmitting such estate to its lawful owners, the Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay therefrom the burial expenses of such deceased person and all expenses by the Treasurer necessarily incurred in securing possession of the estate, in ascertaining the true owners thereof, and in transmitting the same to the true owners, and in payment of such debts as he shall adjudicate are justly due from the deceased at the time of his death. The accounts of the Treasurer in the performance of this duty shall be audited like his other accounts, and for the moneys and property received by him in performance of the duties by this act prescribed, his official bond shall be held as security. If the Treasurer shall find it to be for the interest of the parties entitled to the estate to convert any portion thereof which is not in the form of cash into cash by sale, he is hereby authorized to make such sale by auction or otherwise as he shall determine to be most advantageous to the estate.

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SEC. 2. In case the Treasurer shall have performed his duties in accordance with section 1 of this act and shall have paid over the sum due from the funds of said estate to the persons whom he has adjudged to be entitled thereto, such settlement of the estate shall be deemed a lawful settlement thereof, and the Treasurer shall not be accountable to any other person for the estate so administered by him.

SEC. 3. This act shall apply to the estates of persons of the class named in section 1 who have died before the passage of this act, as well as to those who shall die hereafter.

SEC. 4. Nothing in this act contained shall prohibit the lawful heirs of any person whose estate has been settled in accordance with the provisions of this act from bringing suit in any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter and of the parties, against the persons who have received the estate by virtue of the provisions of this act, and from recovering the same from such persons upon proof that the estate has been delivered to persons not entitled to the same.

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, November 1, 1901.

[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.

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

SECTION 1. The sum of four hundred and twenty thousand dollars ($420,000) or so much thereof as may be necessary, in money of the United States, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the following expenses incurred in the United States for the benefit of the Insular Government:

THE BUREAU OF PHILIPPINES CONSTABULARY.

For the purchase of arms, supplies and ammunition, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars ($170,000).

THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

For traveling expenses of teachers from the United States, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).

THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC PRINTING.

Hereafter to be established.

For the purchase of printing plant, supplies, and freight on the same, two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000).

SEC. 2. 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. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, November 2, 1901.

[No. 292.]

AN ACT defining the crimes of treason, insurrection, sedition, conspiracies 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 punishment therefor.

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

SECTION 1. Every person, resident in the Philippine Islands, owing allegiance to the United States or the Government of the Philippine Islands, who levies war against them, or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the Philippine Islands or elsewhere, is guilty of treason, and, upon conviction, shall suffer death or, at the discretion of the court, shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five years and fined not less than ten thousand dollars. SEC. 2. Every person, owing allegiance to the United States or the Government of the Philippine Islands, and having knowledge of any treason against them or either of them, who conceals, and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the Provincial Governor in the Province in which he resides, or to the Civil Governor of the Islands, or to some Judge of a Court of Record, is guilty of misprision of treason, and shall be imprisoned not more than seven years and be fined not more than one thousand dollars.

SEC. 3. Every person who incites, sets on foot, assists or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or of the Government of the Philippine Islands, or the laws thereof, or who gives aid or comfort to any one so engaging in such rebellion or insurrection, shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned for not more than ten years and be fined not more than ten thousand dollars.

SEC. 4. If two or more persons conspire to overthrow, put down or destroy by force, the Government of the United States in the Philippine Islands or the Government of the Philippine Islands, or by force to prevent, hinder or delay, the execution of any law of the United States or of the Philippine Islands, or by force to seize, take, or possess, any property of the United States or of the Government of the Philippine Islands, contrary to the authority thereof, each of such persons shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment, with or without hard labor, for a period not more than six years.

SEC. 5. All persons who rise publicly and tumultuously in order to attain by force or outside of legal methods any of the following objects, are guilty of sedition:

1. To prevent the promulgation or execution of any law or the free holding of any popular election.

2. To prevent the Insular Government, or any Provincial or Municipal Government or any public official, from freely exercising

its or his duties or the due execution of any judicial or administrative order.

3. To inflict any act of hate or revenge upon the person or property of any official or agent of the Insular Government or of a Provincial or Municipal Government.

4. To inflict, with a political or social object, any act of hate or revenge, upon individuals or upon any class of individuals in the Islands.

5. To despoil, with a political or social object, any class of persons, natural or artificial, a Municipality, a Province, or the Insular Government or the Government of the United States, or any part of its property.

SEC. 6. Any person guilty of sedition as defined in section 5 hereof, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding five thousand dollars and by imprisonment not exceeding ten years, or both.

SEC. 7. All persons conspiring to commit the crime of sedition shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both.

SEC. 8. Every person who shall utter seditious words or speeches, write, publish, or circulate, scurrilous libels against the Government of the United States or the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands or which tend to disturb or obstruct any lawful officer in executing his office, or which tend to instigate others to cabal or meet together for unlawful purposes, or which suggest or incite rebellious conspiracies or riots or which tend to stir up the people against the lawful authorities or to disturb the peace of the community, the safety and order of the Government, or who shall knowingly conceal such evil practices, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both in the discretion of the Court.

SEC. 9. All persons who shall meet together for the purpose of forming, or who shall form any secret society or who shall after the passage of this Act continue membership in a society already formed having for its object in whole or in part, the promotion of treason, rebellion or sedition, or the promulgation of any political opinion or policy, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.

SEC. 10. Until it has been officially proclaimed that a state of war or insurrection against the authority or sovereignty of the United States no longer exists in the Philippine Islands, it shall be unlawful for any person to advocate orally or by writing or printing or like methods, the independence of the Philippine Islands or their separation from the United States whether by peaceable or forcible means, or to print, publish or circulate any handbill, newspaper, or other publication, advocating such independence or separation.

Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding two thousand dollars and imprisonment not exceeding one year.

SEC. 11. Every person who shall administer, or be present and consent to the administering of, any oath or any engagement, purporting to bind the person taking the same to commit any crime punishable by death or by imprisonment for five years or more, or who shall attempt to induce or compel any person to take any such oath or engagement or who shall himself take any such oath or engagement, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding ten years.