For Mena Crisologo, Governor of Ilocos Sur, for actual and necessary expenses while organizing municipalities in Ilocos Sur and for per diem allowances of five dollars ($5) while engaged in such work, seventy dollars and seventy-five cents ($70.75).

For W. H. C. Bowen, Governor of Abra, for allowance for the month of December in lieu of commutation of quarters, from which allowance from military appropriations he is excluded as an officer of the army by reason of his detail for civil duty, forty-eight dollars ($48). For J. F. Kreps, Governor of Nueva Ecija, for allowance for the month of December in lieu of commutation of quarters, from which allowance from military appropriations he is excluded as an officer of the army by reason of his detail for civil duty, thirty-six dollars ($36). For Edward W. Terry, late Treasurer of Sorsogon, for allowance in lieu of commutation of quarters, from June 1st to June 30th and from July 15th to September 30th from which allowance from military appropriations he was excluded as an officer of the army by reason of his detail for civil duty, one hundred and twenty dollars ($120).

For Major E. W. Halford, Paymaster, U. S. A., for reimbursement for an amount paid Lieutenant H. D. Blasland on the army mileage basis, for traveling expenses while on civil duty, twenty-one dollars and twenty-eight cents ($21.28).

For R. J. Fanning, Treasurer of Sorsogon, for allowance in lieu of all claim for salary from October 8th to October 31st, while en route to accept the duties of Treasurer of Sorsogon, one hundred and fortysix dollars and sixty-six cents ($146.66).

For Enrique Barrera, for drafting and authenticating the conveyance of land in Benguet, purchased by the Government of the Philippine Islands, and for furnishing an official copy of the same, twentythree dollars and thirty cents ($23.30).

For J. M. Liddell, Judge of the Municipal Court, for an allowance in lieu of all expenses incurred by him in bringing his family to Manila, four hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty-five cents ($445.65).

For Escolastico Salandanan, Fiscal of Marinduque, for an allowance in lieu of all expenses, incurred by him in going from Manila to Marinduque to assume the duties of his office, fifty-one dollars and fifty cents ($51.50).

For L. & M. Alexander and Co., San Francisco, for payment of two typewriters owned by them and sold at the Custom House as unclaimed property, one hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy-eight cents ($153.78).

For Marinao Rodriquez, Presidente of Gazan, Marinduque, for an allowance in lieu of salary while serving as presidente of Gazan from January 25 to April 11, 1901, thirty-eight dollars ($38).

For Antonio de la Riva, for return of fine imposed by military commission and subsequently remitted by order of the Commanding General of the Division, one thousand dollars ($1,000).

For Bernabe Santa Tereza, native of Bagumbayan, for reimbursement for a nipa house destroyed to prevent the spread of plague, twentyseven dollars and fifty cents ($27.50).

For Cipriano Santa Tereza, native of Bagumbayan, for reimbursement for a nipa house destroyed to prevent the spread of plague, twenty dollars ($20).

For Ramon Pazos, for rent at twenty-five dollars ($25) per month from July 1, 1900, to August 21, 1901, for house at San Pedro Macati, occupied by United States troops and by native police, three hundred

and forty-two dollars and fifty cents ($342.50) or so much thereof as may be found due.

For a return to the organized municipalities in the province of Laguna, of one-half internal revenue collections, collected between January 1, and June 30, 1901, in such municipalities, four thousand and eight dollars and forty-one cents ($4,008.41).

For the payment of expenses of transportation, both passenger and freight, heretofore lawfully incurred, which is not otherwise specifically provided for, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).

Officers of the United States Army, who by reason of serving under detail in civil positions have been deprived of mileage for actual official travel which they would otherwise have received, shall be entitled to such mileage, which is hereby made a proper charge against this appropriation, the provisions of Section 4 of Act 148 being hereby modified to this extent.

CITY OF MANILA.

Salaries and wages, Municipal Board, city of Manila, 1902: Three clerks class 7; one clerk class 6; one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars ($1,650).

Salaries and wages, Department of Engineering and Public Works, 1902: Two clerks class I, one hundred dollars ($100).

Transportation, Department of Engineering and Public Works, 1902: As a temporary provision for transportation for employés while on official business, where it was impossible to secure such transportation from the Insular Purchasing Agent, two hundred and eightysix dollars ($286).

Contingent expenses, Department of Engineering and Public Works, 1902: For contingent expenses, including the remodeling of the Santa Cruz Fire Station, the interior fittings of the Divisoria market, and for foundation of the Anda Street market, ten thousand three hundred dollars ($10,300).

Transportation Superintendent of Streets, Parks, Bridges, Docks and Wharves, 1902: As a temporary provision for transportation for employés while on official business, where it was impossible to secure such transportation from the Insular Purchasing agent, five hundred dollars ($500).

Contingent expenses, Superintendent of Streets, Parks, Bridges, Docks and Wharves, 1902: For contingent expenses, including purchase of trees, shrubs, plants, the construction of crematory and the purchase of horses, dump carts, harness and wagons, sixty-nine thousand, five hundred and ninety-eight dollars and ninety cents ($69,598.90).

Equipment, Fire Department, city of Manila, 1902: For alteration of fire engines, hose standard and play pipes to fit, the connections of new hose purchased by the Fire Department, four hundred dollars ($400).

Salaries and wages, City Assessor and Collector, 1902: For emergency clerks for assessing and appraising the taxable real estate in Manila, two thousand, nine hundred fifty dollars ($2,950).

Salaries and wages, Law Department, city of Manila, 1902: For salaries and wages, including the salary of one interpreter class D, in the Municipal Court of the District North of the Pasig, from August 9th to September 30th, one clerk class 9, from September 1st to December 31st, and one clerk class C, from December 1st to December 31st, one thousand, eight hundred and eighty-four dollars and forty-six cents ($1,884.46).

Contingent expenses, Law Department, city of Manila, 1902, For contingent expenses, including law books for the office of the City Attorney, two thousand, five hundred dollars ($2,500).

Contingent expenses, Officer in charge Santa Cruz Bridge, 1902: For completion of the work on the Santa Cruz Bridge, nineteen thousand, four hundred and forty dollars ($19,440).

Total appropriation for the city of Manila, one hundred and nine thousand, six hundred and nine dollars and thirty-six cents ($109,609.36). Total appropriation for all purposes, five hundred eighty-four thousand, four hundred and five dollars and forty cents ($584,405.40), in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary. SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated a sum sufficient to return to the Provincial Governments, now or hereafter organized under the General Provincial Act, all the internal revenue collections, including forestry collections made between the 1st of July, 1901, and such time as the provinces in which such collections have been made or shall be made, have been or shall be respectively organized, or until such time as the Treasurer of such province shall have taken charge of the collections of internal revenue of such province. One-half of such refunds shall be paid to the Provincial Treasurer, and the other half shall be paid to the Provincial Treasurer to be by him distributed to the municipalities in which the same was collected. The authority for payment hereby conferred may be exercised from time to time in partial payments to the provincial treasurers until all that is due shall be paid. The warrants for the same shall be drawn upon the application of the provincial treasurers, in the amounts certified to be correct by the Collector of Internal Revenue for the Islands, approved by the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago.

SEC. 3. The Provincial Board of the Province of Marinduque is hereby authorized to pay the sum of forty-two dollars and fifty cents ($42.50), in money of the United States, to Victor C. Lewis, former Supervisor of Marinduque, in full settlement of all expenses incurred by him in June, 1901, while on a trip from Marinduque to Manila and return, anything in Act 125 limiting the traveling expenses of provincial officers while absent from the capital to the contrary notwithstanding..

SEC. 4. All funds appropriated by this act shall be disbursed in local currency upon the basis of two dollars in local currency for one dollar money of the United States, except funds appropriated in this act for the Women's Hospital in Manila and the Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant, which shall be disbursed in money of the United States.

The appropriation for the Philippine Civil Hospital in Act No. 264, is hereby amended so as to allow all such appropriations therein made for the purchase of supplies and furniture from the United States army to be disbursed in United States currency.

SEC. 5. 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. 6. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, December 4, 1901.

[No. 312.]

AN ACT providing that one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) of funds appropriated for the insular purchasing agent by Act No. 264, shall be payable in currency of the United States, instead of in insular currency.

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

SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000) appropriated by section 1 of Act No. 264, for the Insular Purchasing Agent, for the purchase of supplies, including coal, lumber and other supplies, purchased during the third quarter of the year 1901, is hereby made payable in money of the United States instead of in Insular Currency, anything in said Act No. 264 to the contrary notwithstanding.

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, December 4, 1901.

[No. 313.]

AN ACT amending Act No. 183, entitled "An Act to incorporate 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. Section 25 of Act No. 183, entitled "An Act to Incorporate the City of Manila," is hereby amended by inserting at its close the following words; "in case of the absence or sickness or inability to act for any other reason, of the head of one of the municipal departments, the officer next in charge of that department shall be authorized to sign all necessary papers, such as vouchers, requisitions, etc."

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, December 6, 1901.

[No. 314.]

AN ACT amending the Provincial Government Act so as to provide a more simple method of procedure in cases of suspended municipal officials, and Justices of the peace.

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

SECTION 1. Whenever any municipal official shall be suspended by the Governor of the Province in accordance with the provisions of the Provincial Government Act, it shall be the duty of the Provincial

Governor at once to file written charges with the Provincial Board setting forth the nature of the complaints made against the suspended official, and thereupon the Board shall immediately furnish a copy of said charges to the accused official, with a notification of the time and place of hearing upon said charges, and at the time and place appointed, the board shall proceed to hear and investigate the truth or falsity of said charges, giving the suspended official full opportunity to be heard. The hearing shall occur as soon as may be practicable after the charges are filed. Upon the completion of the hearing the Board shall immediately forward in writing its findings as to the truth or falsity of the charges, together with the charges and evidence taken by the Board, and its recommendation as to whether the official ought or ought not to be dismissed,. to the Civil Governor, and the Civil Governor shall thereupon, upon the receipt of said findings, charges and evidence, order the suspended official to be reinstated or dismissed as the facts shall warrant. In case the Civil Governor shall order the official to be dismissed, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner required by the Municipal Code and its amendments.

SEC. 2. Whenever any justice of the peace shall be suspended by the Civil Governor, the Civil Governor shall forthwith notify the Provincial Board of the Province in which the Justice of the Peace resides, of the charges made against the Justice of the Peace, and thereupon the Provincial Board shall proceed to notify the Justice of the charges and of the time and place of hearing, and shall conduct the hearing and make full report thereon to the Civil Governor in the same manner as provided in section 1 in relation to suspended municipal officers, and the Governor shall act upon such report and evidence as is provided in said section 1.

SEC. 3. So much of the Provincial Government Act and of all other acts as is in conflict with this act is hereby repealed.

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, December 10, 1901.

[No. 315.]

AN ACT creating a bureau of the cold storage and ice plant, and providing the method of conducting said plant and the personnel and salaries of the employés therein.

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 a bureau for the purpose of conducting The Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant at Manila, and disposing of the products thereof, which Bureau shall be under the general control and supervision of the Secretary of Finance and Justice. The Bureau shall have the entire charge of the plant and grounds belonging to it, and of the conduct of its operations in providing cold storage, manufacturing ice and sterilized water, and of the disposal of the room available for cold storage in said plant, and of the ice and sterilized water therein produced, and of the transportation necessary for all purposes of the plant, in the manner in this act provided.