quarter of the year 1901, two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($237.50); one clerk at the rate of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per month, for April, May and June, Department of Prison Records, seventy-five dollars ($75.00); authorized increase of $62.50 in the salary of one interpreter in the Superior Provost Court, from February 24 to June 30, 1901, two hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents ($264.58); for increase in the salaries of the Chief Justice and three Associate Judges of the Supreme Court authorized by Act 136, over the amount already appropriated for the period June 17 to June 30, six hundred and ffity-one dollars and thirty-nine cents ($651.39); for the salaries of three additional Associate Judges of the Supreme Court, authorized by Act 136, for the period June 17 to June 30, eight hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents ($816.66); salary of one chief clerk at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) per month and three deputy clerks at the rate of one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents ($166.66) per month for the Supreme Court for the period June 18 to June 30, two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-one cents ($258.31); for increase of salary of the Attorney General and the Assistant Attorney General, authorized by Act 136, over the amount already appropriated for the period June 17 to June 30, one hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents ($172.50); salary of one Solicitor General at three hundred and seventy-five dollars ($375.00) per month for the period June 17 to June 30, one hundred and seventy-five dollars ($175.00); for increase in the salary of two judges of the Courts of First Instance, authorized by Act 140, for the period June 17 to June 30, two hundred and ninetynine dollars and forty-four cents ($299.44); salary of one sheriff at two hundred and eight dollars and thirty-three cents ($208.33) per month, from June 21 to June 30, sixty-nine dollars and forty-four cents ($69.44); salary of one clerk at one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents ($166.66) from June 22 to June 30, fifty dollars ($50.00); in all, for the Department of Municipal Records, three thousand and sixty-nine dollars and eighty-two cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Office of the Public Prosecutor: Two clerks, class 9; one interpreter at the rate of seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750.00) per annum; seven hundred and eightyseven dollars and fifty cents ($787.50), or so much thereof as may be necessary. In all, for the Office of the Provost Marshal General, and the departments reporting to him, four hundred and ninety-seven thousand, nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixty-six cents ($497,977.66), or so much thereof as may be necessary. SURGEON IN CHARGE AT SAN JOSÉ DE BUENA VISTA, PANAY. For the employment of one native vaccinator, at fifteen dollars per month, hereby authorized, forty-five dollars ($45.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary. DISBURSING OFFICER, UNITED STATES PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. Salaries and general expenses of the United States Philippine Commission, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary. PHILIPPINE WEATHER BUREAU. For salaries, authorized by Act 131, for Manila Central Observatory, for the month of June and the third quarter of the year 1901, six thousand, eight hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety-six cents ($6,839.96); expenses of the branch station at Baguio and at Dagupan, for the same period, four hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-four cents ($466.64); printing and binding weather bulletin for May, June, July and August, forty-five dollars ($45.00); rent of instruments, offices, etc., for June and the third quarter of the year 1901, fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00); traveling expenses, cost of transportation and instruments, etc., for the month of June and the third quarter of the year 1901, one thousand, one hundred and fifty dollars ($1,150.00); expenses of the following branch stations, for the third quarter of the year 1901: Zamboanga, Cebu, Iloilo, Ormoc and Legaspi, eight hundred and seventy-four dollars and ninety-five cents ($874.95); expenses of the branch stations of Daet, Aparri, San Isidro and Tacloban, for the months of August and September, 1901, three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-two cents ($333.32); expenses of the branch stations at Maasin, Capiz and Surigao for the third quarter of the year 1901, one hundred and seventy dollars ($170.00); expenses of the rain station at San Fernando de la Union, twenty-two dollars and fifty cents ($22.50); weather report for August, September, October, November and December, 1899, and January, February and March, 1900, four hundred and fourteen dollars ($414.00); binding weather report for the years 1898 and 1899, thirtytwo dollars ($32.00); extra allowance for disbursing clerk for the third quarter of the year 1901, fifty dollars ($50.00). In all, for the Philippine Weather Bureau, eleven thousand, eight hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-seven cents ($11,898.37), or so much thereof as may be necessary. MISCELLANEOUS. For payment by settlement warrant to legal heirs of deceased scouts and deceased Philippine Cavalrymen, of the amounts found to have been due to such deceased scouts and cavalrymen, five hundred dollars ($500.00). For O. B. Troplong, for salary from December 1 to December 15, 1900, one hundred dollars ($100.00). For W. H. Clarke, chief clerk, Auditor's Office, as additional compensation for services as superintendent of the Intendencia Building, at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) per annum, hereby authorized, sixty-two dollars and fifty cents ($62.50). For Aldecoa & Company, for increase in rent of twenty dollars ($20.00) per month of the house, 143 Calle Camba, Binondo, used as a schoolhouse, from January 1 to May 15, 1901, ninety dollars ($90.00). For Henry D. Wolfe, for twenty electric fans for the offices of the United States Philippine Commission, at thirty-five dollars and twenty-five cents ($35.25) each, seven hundred and five dollars ($705.00). Total appropriations for all purposes, in money of the United States, one million, two hundred and twenty-two thousand, seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and eighty-three cents ($1,222,732.83), or so much thereof as may be necessary. SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated out of the Insular Treasury from funds not otherwise appropriated a sum sufficient to return to the provincial governments now or hereafter organized under the General Provincial Government Act, all the internal revenue collections made between the first of January, 1901, and the first of July, 1901, in said provinces, in accordance with Section 37 of Act No. 133, one-half to be paid into the provincial treasury and the other half to be paid to the Provincial Treasurer, to be by him distributed to the municipalities in which the same were collected. The authority for payment hereby conferred may be exercised from time to time in partial payments to provincial treasurers until all that is due under Section 37 of Act No. 133 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 Insular Collector of Internal Revenue, approved by the Insular Auditor. In so far as the manner of payment provided in Section 37 of Act No. 133 is inconsistent with that herein provided, such Section No. 37 is hereby modified. SEC. 3. Disbursing officers are hereby directed to disburse all funds by this act appropriated, one-half in money of the United States and one-half in local currency, upon the basis of two dollars of local currency for one dollar of money of the United States. Warrants shall be drawn in money of the United States, but disbursing officers are hereby required to procure on the warrants onehalf in money of the United States and one-half in local currency, for the purpose of complying with this section. SEC. 4. 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 or Procedure by the Commission in the Enactment of Laws," passed September 26, 1900. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 164.] AN ACT amending Act No. 157. entitled "An act providing for the establishment of a Board of Health for the Philippine Islands." By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section 6 of "An Act Providing for the Establishment of a Board of Health for the Philippine Islands" is hereby amended by adding at its close the following words: "In case of delay in filling the office of Commissioner of Public Health, or if for any other reason there is a vacancy therein, the Chief Health Inspector shall, in addition to his duties as such, exercise the authority and discharge the duties of Commissioner of Public Health until the office is duly filled. While discharging the duties of Commissioner of Public Health he shall receive additional compensation at the rate of five hundred dollars ($500) per year.” 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, July 13, 1901. [No. 165.] AN ACT prescribing certain duties for collectors of customs, collectors of internal revenue, and provincial treasurers with reference to the collection of taxes on forest products. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Any person who desires to ship forest products of whatever sort to a foreign port shall produce to the Collector of Customs at the port of shipment a receipt from a forestry official showing that the forestry taxes on these products have been paid, unless such products are taken from private land the title to which has been properly registered in the office of the Forestry Bureau at Manila, in which case a shipper shall produce a certificate from a forestry official to this effect. SEC. 2. No Collector of Customs shall clear a vessel having on board forest products of any sort from any port of the Philippine Islands for a foreign port until the shipper of such products has complied with the provisions of Section 1 of this act. SEC. 3. Every Collector of Internal Revenue and every Provincial Treasurer in the Philippine Islands shall make to the Chief of the Forestry Bureau an itemized monthly report of all moneys received by him for taxes on forest products, giving for each payment the date when made, the name of the payor, the number of the forestry official's order under which the payment is made, the nature of the product on which the payment is made, the name of the province in which it was taken and the amount of the payment. 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, July 13, 1901. [No. 166.] AN ACT creating a special court for the trial of certain actions, appellate and original, pending in courts of the Island of Negros, on and before the 16th day of June, 1901. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. A special and temporary court is hereby created for the Island of Negros, with one judge to preside therein, who shall be appointed by the Civil Governor, with the consent of the Commission, and may be removed by the Civil Governor, with a like consent. The judge shall receive a salary at the rate of three thousand, five hundred dollars ($3,500) per year, in money of the United States. SEC. 2. The special court hereby created shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine: 1. All actions and proceedings which were pending in the Courts of First Instance in the Island of Negros on the 16th day of June, 1901, and which shall not have been heard by the new Courts of First Instance organized within the Island of Negros under Act No. 136, when this act shall go into effect; 2. All appeals which, on the 16th day of June, 1901, were pending in the Court of Appeals for the Island of Negros organized under Section XVII of General Order No. 30, issued by the Military Government of the Philippine Islands on June 22, 1899; 3. All appeals which, on the 16th day of June, 1901, were pending in the Court of Appeals for fines imposed by administrative action in the Island of Negros, organized by virtue of acts of the Advisory Council of said island, and approved by the Military Governor thereof, on the 18th and 19th days of September, 1900. All actions, proceedings and appeals in this section described, together with all the records, books and papers relating thereto, are transferred to the special court hereby established, which shall have the same power and jurisdiction over them as if they had been primarily lodged, deposited, filed or commenced therein, or, in cases of appeal, appealed thereto. SEC. 3. The Court hereby created shall be a Court of Record and have a seal, and shall be governed as to its hours of sessions, clerk, clerk's bond, his deputy and assistants, and the employment of stenographer, typewriter, translator or interpreter, officer of the court, the duties of Fiscal, and allowance for traveling expenses, by the provisions of Chapter IV of Act No. 136, providing for the organization of courts, and the amendments thereof. The clerk shall receive a salary at the rate of eight hundred dollars per year, in money of the United States, payable monthly. SEC. 4. The Judge of the Court hereby created shall hold terms of court at Bacolod, at which place all actions, proceedings and appeals originating in Occidental Negros shall be heard, and at Dumaguete, at which place all actions, proceedings and appeals originating in Oriental Negros shall be heard. The Judge shall fix the times of holding the terms, and give due notice thereof to the public, but shall so fix the dates for the terms that the special Court will not be in session at Bacolod or at Dumaguete at the times respectively fixed by law for holding the regular terms of the Court of First Instance in the Provinces of Occidental and Oriental Negros, respectively. SEC. 5. The proceedings in the court hereby created shall be in accordance with the Civil and Criminal Codes of Procedure for Courts of First Instance in force in the Philippine Islands at the times when the several actions pending therein shall come on for trial; but in any appeals pending in said Court, additional evidence may be received, if the Court finds that the reception of such evidence is necessary in the interests of justice. All actions, civil and criminal, determined in said Court may pass to the Supreme Court for revision, in the same manner and with the same effect as though the actions had been heard in a Court of First Instance organized under Act No. 136. SEC. 6. On the first day of September, 1902, or upon the earlier completion of the trial and determination of all the proceedings and appeals over which jurisdiction is given to the court hereby created, the court shall cease and be abolished without further legislation. In any action or proceedings at any time pending in the Supreme Court by appeal from the special court hereby created, the Supreme Court may, if it reverses the judgment and orders a new trial, remand the case for a new trial to the regular Court of First Instance for Occidental or Oriental Negros, as the case may be. |