SEC. 12. Any person who administers, or who is present at, and consenting to, the administering of any oath or engagement purporting to bind the person taking the same, either;

1. To engage in any seditious purpose, or

2. To disturb the public peace or commit or endeavor to commit any criminal offense, or

3. To fail or refuse to inform and give evidence against any associate, confederate or other person, or

4. To fail or refuse to reveal or discover any unlawful combination or confederacy or any illegal act done or to be done or any illegal oath or obligation or engagement which may have been administered or tendered to, or taken by, any person or the import of any such oath, obligation or engagement:

And likewise any one who attempts to induce or compel any person to take any such oath or engagement, and likewise any person who takes any such oath or engagement, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both.

SEC. 13. Any person who under such compulsion as would otherwise excuse him, offends against either of the last two preceding sections, shall not be excused thereby, unless within the periods hereinafter stated, he declares the same, and what he knows touching the same, and the persons by whom such oath or obligation or engagement was administered or taken, by information upon oath before a Justice of the Peace, Judge of a Court of First Instance or Provincial Fiscal of the Municipality, or Province, in which such oath or engagement was administered or taken. Such declaration may be made by him within fourteen days after the commission of the offense, or, if he is hindered from making it, by actual force or sickness, then within eight days after cessation of such hindrance, or on his trial, if that happens before the expiration of either of those periods.

SEC. 14. Any person who shall have taken any oath before any military officer of the Army of the United States or before any officer under the Civil Government of the Philippine Islands, whether such official so administering the oath was specially authorized by law so to do or not, in which oath the affiant in substance engaged to recognize or accept the supreme authority of the United States of America in these Islands or to maintain true faith and allegiance thereto or to obey the laws, legal orders and decrees promulgated by its duly constituted authorities and who shall, after the passage of this act, violate the terms and provisions of such oath or any of such terms or provisions, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding ten years, or both.

SEC. 15. The provisions of this act shall not apply to the organized provinces of Batangas, Cebú and Bohol, nor to any province where civil government has not been established, so long as insurrection against the authority of the United States exists therein, unless the Commanding General of the Army of the United States, Division of the Philippines, shall authorize and direct prosecutions in the civil courts in such territories for offenses under this act, in which event it shall apply.

SEC. 16. All laws and parts of laws now in force, so far as the same may be in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed; provided: that nothing herein contained shall operate as a repeal of existing laws in so far as they are applicable to pending actions or existing causes of actions, but as to such causes of actions, or pending actions, existing

laws shall remain in full force and effect, this act being entirely prospective.

SEC. 17. A foreigner, residing in the Philippine Islands, who shall commit any of the crimes specified in the preceding sections of this Act, except those specified in sections 1 and 2 shall be punished in the same way and with the same penalty, as that prescribed for the particular crime therein.

SEC. 18. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, November 4, 1901.

[No. 293.]

AN ACT declaring the Rancheria of Tubo to be a part of the Province of Abra.

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

SECTION 1. The Rancheria of Tubo, lying between the provinces of Lepanto and Abra, is hereby declared to be a part of the province of Abra.

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, November 5, 1901.

[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.

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

SECTION 1. The government of the Philippine Islands and that of any province or department thereof, and of any municipality, shall have the right to condemn private personal property and property that is partly personal and partly real, for public use, and shall exercise that right substantially in the manner provided in sections 241 and 253 inclusive, of Act 190, entitled, "An Act Providing a Code of Procedure in Civil Actions and Special Proceedings in the Philippine Islands," which sections relate to the exercise of the right of eminent domain in relation to real estate.

SEC. 2. The Commissioners to be appointed in accordance with section 243 of said Code for condemnation of personal property and property that is partly personal and partly real shall be three judicious and disinterested residents of the province in which the property to be condemned, or some portion of the same, is situated; or if the same is situated in the city of Manila, then such residents of the city of Manila.

SEC. 3. The Commissioners shall be sworn faithfully to perform their duty, before any authority authorized to administer oaths; they shall receive evidence, examine the property sought to be condemned, hear

the parties or their counsel, assess the value of the property taken and used, as is provided in Section 244 of said Code; but, in the case of personal property, they shall assess only the actual value of the property taken and used, and shall allow no consequential damages to the owners of such property.

SEC. 4. The Commissioners shall make report as is provided in Section 245 of said Code, and the Court shall take action upon such report as provided in Section 246, of said Code, the provisions of said sections being hereby made applicable to property that is personal and to such as is partly real and party personal, as well as to land.

SEC. 5. After the rendition of judgment of condemnation by the Court, the plaintiff shall have the right to take possession of the property so condemned and appropriate the same to the public use defined in the judgment, in the same manner as though the property condemned had been real estate, in the manner defined in Section 247 of said Code.

SEC. 6. Exceptions to the judgment of the Court shall be allowed as in other proceedings, but no stay of judgment shall be allowed pending such exceptions, the effect of exceptions in this respect being governed by Section 248 of said Code, which is hereby made applicable, to personal property and property partly personal and partly real.

SEC. 7. The cost of the action, the fees of the Commissioners, powers of guardians, and the effect of the action upon persons not made parties defendant to the proceedings and not having actual or constructive notice thereof in such manner as the law requires, shall be governed by sections 249, 250, 252, 253 of said Code.

SEC. 8. The record of the final judgment, in an action for the condemnation of property under this act, shall state definitely the particular property and items thereof condemned for the public use, and the nature of the public use. The effect of such judgment and the payment or tender of payment in accordance with law of the amounts awarded for the property condemned, shall be to vest in the plaintiff the title to the property so described.

SEC. 9. 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. 10. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, November 5, 1901.

[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 disbursements in connection with the construction of the Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant.

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

SECTION 1. The sum of six thousand dollars ($6,000), in money of the United States, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the sum determined to be equitably due the De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Company of New York for disbursements in connec

tion with the construction of the Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant. The funds hereby appropriated are to be disbursed by the Disbursing Officer of the Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant.

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, November 6, 1901.

[No. 296.]

AN ACT creating a Bureau of Public Printing.

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby created, under the Department of Public Instruction, a Bureau of Public Printing, which shall have charge of and execute the printing required by the Insular Government, and such other printing as it may by law or by the order of the Civil Governor be authorized to undertake, anything in prior acts of the Commission to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 2. There shall be a Chief of the Bureau of Public Printing, who must be a practical printer and versed in the art of bookbinding, who shall receive an annual salary of three thousand, five hundred dollars ($3,500) and who shall be known as the Public Printer.

The duties of the Public Printer shall be:

1. To take charge of all matter which is to be printed, engraved, lithographed or bound; to keep an account thereof in the order in which it is received; to cause the work to be promptly executed; and to assign any employé of any department of the Public Printing Office, temporarily, to another department thereof, providing the interests of the public service will thereby be advanced.

2. To superintend all printing, engraving, lithographing and binding done at the Philippine Public Printing Office; to see that the sheets or volumes are promptly delivered to the person who is authorized to receive them, and the receipt of the person authorized to receive them shall be a sufficient voucher for their delivery.

3. To make an annual report to the Civil Governor, through the Secretary of Public Instruction, and in it to specify the titles, and the number of copies of each form, sheet, document, pamphlet or volume printed, indicating in each case the authority under which the printing was done, and also to specify in said report the exact number of copies of books bound, giving the titles of the books and indicating in each case the authority under which the binding was done, and showing in detail at the same time the cost of the printing done under the orders of each of the several officers having authority to approve orders or requisitions for printing, and giving account of stock and supplies used and the amount on hand, and to make such other reports from time to time as the Secretary of Public Instruction shall require.

4. To employ workmen who are thoroughly skilled in their respective branches of industry as shown by trial of their skill under his direction, in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Service Act. 5. To deposit in the library of the Commission two copies of each

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.