Public Laws and Resolutions Passed by the United States Philippine Commission

[No. 236.]

AN ACT making seventy thousand, four hundred and thirty-six dollars and eightysix cents ($70,436.86), in money of the United States, heretofore appropriated for the payment of the expenses of construction of the Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant, available for the payment of certain items of expenditure in such construction.

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

SECTION 1. Out of the sums appropriated for the construction of the Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant by appropriations of four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000), made on May 26, 1899, and of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), made on July 20, 1899, and of one hundred and seventy-eight thousand, three hundred and forty-six dollars and sixty-four cents ($178,346.64), made on December 20, 1900, the sum of sixty-five thousand, five hundred and eight dollars and sixty-nine cents ($65,508.69), is hereby made available for the purpose of making final payment to De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Company for the installation of machinery, and the sum of four thousand, nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventeen cents ($4,928.17), to make payment to Knisely Bros. for labor and materials furnished in erecting galvanized iron cornice and other labor and material, making a total of seventy thousand, four hundred and thirty-six dollars and eighty-six cents ($70,436.86), in money of the United States, hereby made available for the purposes stated.

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, September 24, 1901.

[No. 237.]

AN ACT to amend section 5 and section 8 of Act No. 198, relating to official trans

portation.

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

SECTION 1. Section 5 of Act No. 198, relating to official transporta tion, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following:

"Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the Chief and Assistant Chief of the Fire Department, the Chief and Assistant Chief of Police, and the Attending Physician and his assistant, to house and stable their official vehicles and horses at their places of residence and to use the same in going to and returning from such résidences on official business; but such vehicles and horses shall be under the control of the Insular Purchasing Agent as to the care of vehicles and the care and forage of horses."

SEC. 2. Section 8 of Act No. 198 shall be amended by striking out the words "to go to and from Manila from and to the provinces" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "to go from one point to another in the Archipelago," and by adding to the section the follow

ing: "The Insular Purchasing Agent shall furnish transportation requests, with proper stubs, in book form, signed by him, to each Provincial Treasurer, to enable the latter to countersign and issue the same upon the order of the head of the proper Insular Bureau for any Insular officer or employé, whose official duty requires him to proceed from the province of the Provincial Treasurer to some other part of the Archipelago. Each Provincial Treasurer receiving such requests shall be accountable for them to the Insular Purchasing Agent. The Insular Purchasing Agent shall, with the approval of the Insular Auditor, make proper regulations for the issuing of such requests by the provincial Treasurers to prevent their use for improper or unauthorized purposes."

SEC. 3. 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. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, September 24, 1901.

[No. 238.]

AN ACT fixing the limits of Cavite Harbor, vesting the admiral of the United States Navy in command of the Asiatic Station with police jurisdiction thereof and providing rules and regulations for governing vessels anchoring therein.

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

SECTION 1. That portion of Manila Bay known as Cavite Harbor to the southward of a line drawn from Sangley Point to Parañaque and for one half of a sea mile due north of said line and limits, is hereby placed under the police supervision of the Admiral of the United States Navy in command of the Asiatic Station in so far as relates to the control of vessels in said harbor. He is authorized to appoint a line officer of the United States Navy to be Supervisor of the Harbor and to have charge therein of the berthing of all vessels, other than naval vessels, and of the enforcement of the provisions of this act. The Admiral is also authorized to appoint a Deputy Supervisor, who is to be also a line officer of the United States Navy, to assist the Supervisor, and, subject to the supervision of the Supervisor, he shall have the same power as the Supervisor himself.

SEC. 2. The following rules and regulations are hereby prescribed for the government of any vessel, other than a vessel of the United States Navy, desiring to berth within the limits aforesaid:

(a) Any such vessel shall first obtain permission to berth within said limits from the Captain of the Port of Manila, whose duty it shall be to notify the Senior Naval Officer afloat at Cavite, addressing Commandant of Cavite Naval Station, of the approximate time of the arrival of said vessel at Cavite, giving the name and length of said vessel and her draft when loaded.

(b) When by reason of stress of weather or of any other urgent necessity, a vessel is compelled to enter Cavite Harbor without having

had an opportunity to communicate with the Captain of the Port at Manila, she will take berth as hereinafter provided.

(c) The Supervisor of Cavite Harbor, so appointed by the Admiral in command of the station, shall have charge of the berthing of all vessels, other than naval vessels, and the enforcement of the provisions of this act.

(d) It shall be the duty of the Supervisor to see that all vessels entering Cavite Harbor shall be met by a steam launch or tug and directed to a proper berth and all vessels so entering or changing from one berth to another shall do so in accordance with the direction of the Supervisor.

(e) Should any vessel entering Cavite Harbor for any reason not be met and conducted to its berth as provided in the next preceding paragraph, it may anchor temporarily in any open berth, but is required to keep steam up ready to move, until such anchorage is confirmed or said vessel is directed to another berth.

(f) All vessels are required to moor, if they are directed so to do, if the same be deemed advisable by the Supervisor and he directs that the same be done.

(g) All vessels shall have steam up and be ready to move during a typhoon or other heavy weather.

h) The commanders of vessels and other persons or corporations are hereby forbidden to dump or permit to be dumped, ashes or other refuse within the limits of Cavite Harbor. Lighters to remove such ashes or other refuse shall be provided by the Supervisor of the Harbor and shall be available at any time upon application to him and he will fix and collect the charge the vessels shall pay for the service of removing such ashes or refuse and such lighters may, except in bad weather, be called alongside by hoisting the international letter "L". When, owing to heavy weather or other causes, lighters cannot come alongside the vessel, the ashes and refuse shall be retained on board until the weather moderates so that lighters can be put alongside or until the vessel leaves the harbor limits.

(Commanders or owners of vessels and all other persons or corporations are forbidden to obstruct said harbor by sinking or permitting to be sunk obstructions of any character such as wrecks or lighters or other hindrances to navigation. All such wrecks or obstructions shall be removed by the Supervisor at the expense of the officers, owners, agents or masters of vessels immediately responsible for their presence in the harbor.

SEC. 3. The officer or person in charge of any vessel anchoring or mooring in Cavite Harbor, within the limits aforesaid, who shall fail to comply with the above regulations or with any other reasonable rules and regulations that may be hereafter issued by the Admiral in charge, for the government of vessels in said harbor, shall be fined by the Supervisor, fifty dollars ($50), money of the United States, for the first offense, and one hundred dollars ($100), money of the United States, for each subsequent offense and said fines shall be paid by the master, owner or agent of such vessel, to the Captain of the Port of Manila and shall by him be accounted for as Insular funds. In case the fines are assessed against the masters, owners or agents of any vessel for not complying with such harbor regulations and the same

are not paid as herein required, it shall be the duty of the Captain of the Port of Manila to notify the Collector of Customs for the Island and Chief Port, who shall refuse such vessel clearance from said port and he may further revoke her charter or take away her license to trade in the Philippine Islands provided, however, that if the makers or owners of vessels of the Quartermaster's Department of the United States shall fail to comply with such harbor regulations, they shall not be fined as herein provided, but shall be reported by the Supervisor to the Military Governor for punishment or may be debarred from the use of the harbor.

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, September 24, 1901.

[No. 239.]

AN ACT providing for the payment, out of the Insular Treasury, of traveling expenses of duly appointed teachers and others to their places of duty in the Islands.

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

SECTION 1. Teachers in the Department of Public Instruction and other persons appointed to office under the Insular, or a provincial government, who reach Manila from the United States, shall have their traveling expenses paid out of the Insular Treasury from Manila to the point in the Islands where their duties are to be performed. In cases where such teachers and other persons appointed have been duly authorized to bring their families at public expense from the United States to Manila, the expenses allowed under this act shall include the traveling expenses not only of such teachers and other persons but of their respective families.

SEC. 2. In case of persons stationed or residing in the Archipelago who are appointed to office under the Insular or a provincial government, the duties of which are to be discharged in some other part of the Islands, the reasonable traveling expenses of such persons from their former station or residence in the Islands to the place in which their future duties are to be performed, shall be paid out of the Insular Treasury.

SEC. 3. Payments of actual and necessary traveling expenses of the character described in the preceding sections that have been made by direction of the head of any bureau, department, or the Civil Governor, prior to the passage of this act, are hereby authorized.

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

Enacted, September 25, 1901.

[No. 240.]

AN ACT amending Act No. 125, increasing the limit of official traveling expenses in the province of Marinduque.

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

SECTION 1. Act No. 125, extending the provisions of the Provincial Government Act to the Province of Marinduque, is hereby amended by increasing the limit of allowance for necessary and actual traveling expenses of provincial officers while absent from the capital of the province on official business from one dollar ($1.00) per day, in money of the United States, as now provided, to two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per day, in the same currency.

Enacted, September 25, 1901.

[No. 241.]

AN ACT amending Article 1, of the immigration regulations for the Philippine Islands, promulgated by the War Department, June 6, 1899, relating to a duty to be paid by passengers coming into the Philippine Islands from foreign ports.

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

SECTION 1. Article 1, of the immigration regulations for the Philippine Islands, promulgated by the War Department June 6, 1899, is hereby amended, by express authority of the Secretary of War, given September 4, 1901, so as to read as follows:

"Collectors of Customs will collect a duty of one dollar ($1.00) for each and every passenger who shall come by steam or sail vessel from any foreign port to any port of the Philippine Islands, except citizens of the United States and persons, natives of the Philippine Islands or otherwise, owing allegiance to the United States.”

Enacted, September 26, 1901.

[No. 242.]

AN ACT amending Act No. 175 and establishing a supply store for the benefit of civil servants of the Insular and Provincial Governments, stationed outside 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. A supply store is hereby authorized and directed to be established for the purpose of furnishing officers, employés and servants

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