REGISTRAR OF PROPERTY OF CAMARINES SUR. For the salary of a clerk at the rate of twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) a month for the months of December, 1900, January, February and March, 1901, fifty dollars ($50). Total appropriations for all purposes, in money of the United States, three hundred and twenty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirtyfour dollars and sixty-eight cents ($323,734.68). 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 26th, 1900. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 98.] AN ACT to regulate commerce in the Philippine Islands. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. No person or corporation engaged as a common carrier of passengers or property shall directly or indirectly by any special rate, rebate, drawback or other device, charge, demand, collect or receive from any person or persons, a greater or less compensation for any service rendered, or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property on land or water between any points in the Philippine Islands than such common carrier charges, demands, collects or receives from any other person or persons for doing for him a like or contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, and any such unjust discrimination is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any common carrier engaged in the transportation of passengers or property as above set forth to make or give any unnecessary or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation or locality or any particular kind of traffic in any respect whatsoever, or to subject any particular person, company, firm, corporation or locality or any particular kind of traffic, to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or discrimination whatsoever, and such unjust preference or discrimination is also hereby prohibited and declared to be unlaw ful. SEC. 3. No common carrier engaged in the carriage of passengers or property as aforesaid shall, under any pretense whatsoever, fail or refuse to receive for carriage, and as promptly as it is able to do so without discrimination, to carry any person or property offering for carriage, and in the order in which such persons or property are offered for carriage, nor shall any such common carrier enter into any arrangement, contract or agreement with any other person or corporation whereby the latter is given an exclusive or preferential privilege over any other person or persons to control or monopolize the carriage of any class or kind of property to the exclusion or partial exclusion of any other person or persons, and the entering into any such arrangement, contract or agreement, under any form or pretense whatsoever, is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful. SEC. 4. Any wilful violation of the provisions of this Act by any common carrier engaged in the transportation of passengers or property as herein before set forth, is hereby declared to be punishable by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) money of the United States, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both, within the discretion of the court. SEC. 5. Any person or corporation who may be damaged by reason of the doing by a common carrier of any of the matters and things by this act prohibited, shall be entitled to sue for and recover all damages so incurred by him, together with the costs of such suits, and a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.00) in money of the United States to be recovered by the person or corporation in the same action, such suit to be brought in any court in the Islands having jurisdiction. thereof. SEC. 6. All managers, agents or servants of common carriers directing or assisting in the acts and doings prohibited by this act shall be subject to the same penalty as provided for the common carrier. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, March 9, 1901. [No. 99.] AN ACT to amend an act entitled "A general act for the organization of provincial governments in the Philippine Islands." By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. To facilitate the collection of revenues for the existing quarter and the rendition by the Collector of Internal Revenue of the Íslands of the statements required in section 18 of the Provincial Government Act, the provincial treasurers appointed under said act shall not assume their duties as collectors of internal revenue until the beginning of the next quarter of the fiscal year, April 1, 1901. SEC. 2. Until March 1, 1902, the necessary stationery, blank forms, books, etc., used in the collection of internal revenue, shall be furnished by the Collector of Internal Revenue of the Islands upon the requisition of provincial treasurers. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 100.] AN ACT empowering the Military Governor and his proper subordinates to organize town governments not already organized in provinces to which the Provincial Government Act has not been extended. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. In all provinces to which the provisions of the Provincial Government Act have not been extended, the Military Governor, or his proper subordinates, shall have power to organize town governments not already organized under General Order No. 40, series of 10890-01-14 1900, Office of the Military Governor of the Philippine Islands, or the Municipal Code, in accordance with the provisions of General Order No. 43, series of 1899, Headquarters Division of the Philippines. Such organization shall be provisional and shall remain in force only until the Commission shall establish a municipal government in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Municipal Code. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, March 9, 1901. [No. 101.] AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act appropriating one million dollars in money of the United States for improving the Port of Manila," enacted October 15, 1900. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section one of an act entitled "An acu appropriating one million dollars in money of the United States for improving the Port of Manila," enacted October 15, 1900, is hereby amended to read as follows: "The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000), in money of the United States, is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available and to be expended by the Military Governor, through the Chief Engineer, United States Army, for the Division of the Philippine Islands, for continuing the improvements of the harbor of Manila, including the outer harbor and the Pasig River from the Bridge of Spain to the mouth, in accordance with the plans and specifications prepared by the Chief Engineer, Division of the Philippines, which have been submitted to and approved by the Commission, and are on file in this office, and which are a modification of the plans and specifications adopted and partially carried out by the Spanish Government for the improvement of said harbor and which are also on file in the office of the Chief Engineer." SEC. 2. Section 2 of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "The appropriation hereby made shall be first used, so far as it will go, toward finishing what is known in the Spanish plan as the western breakwater of said harbor, and extending the same in a southerly direction so that its end will be in water about the depth of thirty feet at mean low water, and in dredging behind and within said breakwater to a depth not exceeding thirty feet at mean low water, so that shipping of the largest class now frequenting the port of Manila may be able to lie under its protection; to improve the present canal connecting the harbor thus made with the Pasig River, and to improve the Pasig River below the Bridge of Spain and the bar at the mouth of the river. So much of the material excavated by such dredging as shall be necessary for the purpose shall be deposited behind a timber bulkhead and elsewhere where required to form land in shallow water near and along the shore line of the harbor. The said bulkhead shall also be erected in accordance with the said modified plans of the Chief Engineer. As soon as reasonably practicable a channel shall be provided about five hundred feet in width and thirty feet in depth at mean low water from the end of the western breakwater, when completed according to said modified plans, to the said bulkhead, so that deep draft vessels may lie alongside any wharves which may hereafter be provided on the line of said bulkhead and load and unload without the use of lighters. The improvement of the Pasig River hereby provided for shall consist of the necessary work to provide by dredging and maintain a depth of eighteen feet at mean low water from deep water in the Bay to the Bridge of Spain. The improvement of the canal between the harbor and the Pasig River shall consist of the necessary works to give a depth of fifteen feet at mean low water through the said canal and into the Pasig River." SEC. 3. Section 5 of said act is hereby amended by making all of said section prior to Rule (a) read as follows: "The work herein provided for shall, as far as practicable, be done and the necessary materials purchased by contract or contracts with private individuals or corporations. Bids for doing the same shall be advertised for and the contracts for doing the same shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders, except as hereinafter provided. "When the Chief Engineer shall decide that public exigency requires the immediate delivery of any article or performance of any service the article or service required may be procured by open purchase or hire at the places and in the manner in which articles are usually bought and sold or such services engaged between individuals, provided the price of such article or service does not in any single instance exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) Mexican. Provided, that the Chief Engineer is hereby authorized to make contracts for the work of harbor improvements as projected and set forth in said modified plans and specifications prepared by him as above set forth, in addition to the sum already appropriated, to an amount not exceeding two million dollars, money of the United States. Additional appropriations will be made from time to time to make payments for said contracts on or before the exhaustion of funds available for said contracts. And provided further, that in the improvement of the Pasig River and the canal between the harbor and the river, the Chief Engineer may cause the work to be done by the use of hired labor and purchase of materials without first advertising for bids, if in his opinion this method is most economical and advantageous to public interests. "The Chief Engineer may advertise and contract for the doing of the work prescribed by this act either as a whole or in parts, as he may deem most advantageous to the public interests. "In making such advertisements or contracts he shall observe the following general rules and regulations, viz:" SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, March 9, 1901. [No. 102.] AN ACT regulating the salaries of officers and employees in the Philippine civil service. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The Philippine Civil Service Board having submitted its plan for the readjustment of salaries in the Philippine civil service, in accordance with the provisions of act No. 57 of December 12, 1900, the following officers and employees shall be employed in the departments and offices in the Philippine civil service and the salaries for officers or employees in each class shall be construed to be the minimum salary for that class, as provided in Civil Service Rule XII, adopted by the Board under the provisions of the Civil Service Act, as follows: RULE XII. SALARY CLASSIFICATION. The officers and employees in the Philippine civil service, for the purpose of these rules, shall be arranged in the following classes, and, unless otherwise provided by law, it shall be understood that the minimum amount specified for each class indicates the annual salary of each employee in that class: CLASS 1. All persons receiving an annual salary of $3,000 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $3,000 or more per annum. CLASS 2. All persons receiving an annual salary of $2,750 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $2,750 or more, but less than $3,000 per annum. CLASS 3. All persons receiving an annual salary of $2,500 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $2,500 or more, but less than $2,750 per annum. CLASS 4. All persons receiving an annual salary of $2,250 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $2,250 or more, but less than $2,500 per annum. CLASS 5. All persons receiving an annual salary of $2,000 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $2,000 or more, but less than $2,250 per annum. CLASS 6. All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,800 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,800 or more, but less than $2,000 per annum. CLASS 7. All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,600 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,600 or more, but less than $1,800 per annum. CLASS 8. All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,400 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,400 or more, but less than $1,600 per annum. CLASS 9. All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,200 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,200 or more, but less than $1,400 per annum. CLASS 10. All persons receiving an annual salary of $1,000 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $1,000 or more, but less than $1,200 per annum. CLASS A. All persons receiving an annual salary of $900 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $900 or more, but less than $1,000 per annum. CLASS B. All persons receiving an annual salary of $840 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $840 or more, but less than $900 per annum. CLASS C. All persons receiving an annual salary of $720 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $720 or more, but less than $840 per annum. CLASS D. All persons receiving an annual salary of $600 or more, or a compensation at the rate of $600 or more, but less than $720 per annum. |