Judge was appointed, who was thoroughly familiar with the Spanish language, and upon whom was vested a jurisdiction equal to the four Judges of First Instance, said appointee being Mr. Augustus A. Montagne.

In continuation are inserted compendiums of the statements presented by the Justices of the Peace, Courts of First Instance of Manila, the Civil and Criminal Branches of the Supreme Court, as well as of the Secretary of the Gubernative Department thereof, showing the number of matters pending and determined by each since their organization to July 31st last, also the statement lately received from the Court of First Instance of Cavite.

In reference to Justices of the Peace, only such matters added to their jurisdiction by the new law of criminal procedure are stated, they now having jurisdiction over a certain class of felonies, while formerly they only had jurisdiction over misdemeanors.

COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF BINONDO.

THE SAME COURT SITTING AS JUSTICE'S COURT. Felonies determined

Felonies pending

Total..

SUPREME COURT.

12

I

13

Matters pending before the former Spanish Audiencia.. 60 Matters transmitted from the courts of first instance..

514

NOTE. This statement does not include the opinions rendered by the presidency in a large number of cases received from the Military Governor and returned only with the signature of the President, nor the orders and rulings made upon consultations had in regard to matters appertaining to the registers of property and to the notarial offices. C. S. ARELLANO.

APPENDIX HH.

OFFICE OF PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS AND

Secretary

SIR:

TRADE-MARKS.

Intendencia, Manila, P. I., August 10, 1900.

U. S. Military Governor in the Philippine Islands,

Manila, P. I.

I have the honor to submit in reply to your letter of July 25, 1900, the following annual report of this office for the year up to June 30, 1900.

The Office of Patents, Copyrights and Trade-Marks was organized by the undersigned pursuant to the following order:

OFFICE OF THE U. S. MILITARY GOVERNOR IN THE
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

Manila, P. I., June 26, 1899.

GENERAL Orders)

No. 24.

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1. The Offices of Patents, of Copyrights and Trade-Marks, heretofore administered as separate bureaux of the "Direccion General de Administracion Civil," are hereby consolidated into a single office, to be known as the Office of Patents, Copyrights and Trade-Marks, and placed in charge of Captain George P. Ahern, 9th U. S. Infantry, who will receipt to the Spanish authorities for all records, documents and property pertaining thereto.

II. The duties enjoined in Circular No. 12, Division of Customs and Insular Affairs, in reference to the filing here of patents and trademarks, issued in the United States and duly registered in the U. S. Patent Office, and all duties which, under the laws relating to patents, copyrights and trade-marks applicable to the Philippines, pertain to the "Director General de Administracion Civil" and his subordinates, are hereby devolved upon the officer in charge of the office of Patents, Copyrights and Trade-Marks above designated; all matters of administration arising in that office which, under those laws, required the action

of any higher authority than the "Director General de Administracion Civil," will be forwarded for consideration and action to the office of the United States Military Governor in the Philippines.

III. So much of Article 27 of the Royal Decree of October 26, 1888, regulating the concession and use of trade-marks, as requires reference to the "Real Sociedad Económica" of industrial marks, designs or models presented for registration, for investigation and report as to whether such marks, designs or models are already in use or are the property of third persons, is hereby suspended.

BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL OTIS:

(Signed) THOMAS H. BARRY,

Assistant Adjutant General.

Article 13 of the Treaty of Peace signed at Paris December 10, 1898, is as follows:

"Article 13. The rights of property secured by copyrights and patents, acquired by Spaniards in the Island of Cuba and in Porto Rico, the Philippines and other ceded territories, at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, shall continue to be respected. Spanish scientific, literary and artistic works, not subversive of public order in the territories in question, shall continue to be admitted free of duty into such territories for the period of ten years, to be reckoned from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty."

Pursuant to verbal orders from the office of the U. S. Military Governor, a Commission consisting of Señor Avelino de Osma and the undersigned was authorized to transfer from the custody of Spanish officials all records, documents and property pertaining to above mentioned Bureau.

The following records consisting of six volumes were found and transferred.

Two volumes, No. 1 and No. 2, Registers of Titles of Industrial and Commercial Trade-Marks.

Register of Certificates and Titles of Chinese Trade-Marks, I volume.

Special Register of Marks granted by the Minister of Concessions in Spain, I volume.

Register (vol. No. 2) of Patents, dated 1888.

Register of Copyrights, 1 volume.

Volume No. 1, Register of Patents was missing and has never been found.

Volume No. 2 contains copies of notarial certificates of patents granted in Madrid from February 11, 1888, to August 22, 1888. This volume, with a few certificates forwarded from time to time from the Bureau of Spanish Archives in Manila, is the sum total of the matter turned over to this Government by the Spanish Bureau of Patents in Manila. No record is to be found of transfers of property rights in patents, nor nullification of said rights, and no records of payments of annual fees.

There were two classes of Spanish patents, one granted by the Insular authorities for a very limited period of years, and another class which might run for twenty years, granted at Madrid. No drawings nor models were found here; it was claimed that all had been sent to Spain. The Manila Gazette published the certificate of each Spanish patent shortly after it was granted, and for the period of twenty years preceding American occupation between two and three thousand such certificates were published.

The one Register of Patents mentioned above contains but 212 such certificates. Several hundred certificates have been received from time to time from the Spanish Archives in Manila. These have been classified, indexed and filed.

The Registers of Trade-marks contain almost all the trade-marks granted, but very few certificates are authenticated. The Royal Economic Society of Manila was authorized under Spanish law to report upon applications for trademarks, and was a species of Special Examiners. From said Society was received four volumes containing their records of trade-marks granted under Spanish law. These complete the records of the Trade-marks Bureau, and furnish enough working data to satisfy the needs of this office.

There is one Register of Copyrights dating from November 25, 1881 to December 12, 1898. This register contains the name of the author, the title of object copyrighted and date of issue. The period of protection for a copyright extended to eighty years from the date of death of the author.