SEC. 2. Section 2 of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"Members of the Board shall receive an annual compensation of four thousand, five hundred dollars ($4,500) each; the Secretary of the Board, shall receive an annual compensation of three thousand dollars ($3,000); the Disbursing Officer of the Board shall receive an annual compensation of two thousand, five hundred dollars ($2,500). The Board is also hereby authorized, if it shall certify that such employment is indispensably necessary for the proper prosecution of its business, to employ three clerks of class 7. There may be employed in the office of the Secretary one clerk of class 6, one interpreter of class 6, three clerks of class 9, two clerks of class A, one translator and typewriter of class 9, three messengers at an annual salary of one hundred and twenty dollars ($120) each. In the office of the Disbursing Officer, one assistant of class 7; one clerk, of class 8; one clerk, of class 9; one clerk, of class 10; one messenger, at an annual compensation of one hundred and twenty dollars ($120).”

SEC. 3. The four paragraphs of section 5, of said Act No. 185, is hereby amended by striking out the words, "three assistant engineers of class F," and substituting therefor, "one assistant engineer, of class C, one assistant engineer, of class D, one assistant engineer, of class F. The change in salaries of officers at the pumping station affected by this section, shall take effect and apply to the month of September, 1901, as well as to the future."

SEC. 4. Section 12 of said Act is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"There may also be employed in the office of the clerk of each of the Municipal Courts, two deputy clerks, to be appointed by the clerks respectively, one at a salary of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per annum, and one at a salary of six hundred dollars ($600) per annum, and one interpreter for each court, to be appointed by the judge thereof, at a maximum salary of one thousand, five hundred dollars. ($1,500) per annum. Special interpreters versed in Chinese, Japanese or other languages may be temporarily employed by the judge of either court, when necessary for the due administration of justice, at a reasonable compensation, to be fixed by the judge making the appointment.

SEC. 5. 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. 6. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, September 30, 1901.

[No. 247.]

AN ACT providing for the establishment of a civil hospital at Manila.

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

SECTION 1. There shall be a civil hospital at Manila which shall be known as the Philippine Civil Hospital.

SEC. 2. In the admission of patients, preference shall be given to

the officers and employés of the insular and provincial governments and of the city of Manila. Emergency cases among other civilians shall be received at the hospital and treated free of charge until such time as they can safely be removed. Civilians, other than civil officers and employés, may be admitted for treatment up to the limit of the capacity of the institution under such regulations as may be established by the Attending Physician and Surgeon and the Commissioner of Public Health and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.

SEC. 3. The Civil Hospital shall have wards and private rooms. Patients who desire private rooms shall pay for them at the rate of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than twenty dollars ($20) per week, the exact amount to be permanently fixed for each room by the Attending Physician and Surgeon. Medical and surgical attendance, medical supplies, nursing and food shall be furnished to all patients, except emergency cases, at a uniform charge of one dollar ($1.00) per day each; provided, that the charge of one dollar ($1.00) per day may be remitted, in view of the circumstances of the patient, in accordance with regulations to be adopted by the Attending Physician and Surgeon and the Commissioner of Public Health, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.

SEC. 4. The Attending Physician and Surgeon, the Assistant Attending Physician and Surgeon and the Dispensing Clerk, appointed under Act No. 189, shall become the Attending Physician and Surgeon, the Assistant Attending Physician and Surgeon and the Dispensing Clerk of the hospital herein created, without additional compensation. There shall be in addition to the foregoing, the following employés in the hospital:

(a) A superintendent, who shall receive compensation at the rate of one thousand, two hundred dollars ($1,200) per year;

(b) A chief nurse, who shall receive compensation at the rate of nine hundred dollars ($900) per year;

(e) A dietist, who shall receive compensation at the rate of six hundred dollars ($600) per year;

(d) Four trianed nurses, who shall receive compensation at the rate of six hundred dollars ($600) per year each;

(e) Four ward attendants, who shall receive compensation at the rate of six hundred dollars ($600) per year each;

(f) One cook, who shall receive compensation at the rate of three hundred dollars ($300) per year;

(g) One assistant cook, who shall receive compensation at the rate of one hundred and eighty dollars ($180) per year;

(h) One ambulance driver, who shall receive compensation at the rate of six hundred dollars ($600) per year;

(2) One driver for market-wagon, who shall receive compensation at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars ($120) per year;

() Four servants, who shall receive compensation at the rate of ninety dollars ($90) per year each;

(k) Two laborers for the hospital grounds, who shall receive compensation at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars ($120) per year each; provided, that there may be temporarily employed such other servants and laborers as may be deemed necessary by the Attending Physician and Surgeon and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.

SEC. 5. The superintendent, the dispensing clerk, the nurses, the

dietist, the ward attendants, the cook, the assistant cook, the drivers, the servants and regularly employed laborers shall be furnished food and lodging on the hospital grounds free of charge.

SEC. 8. The Attending Physician and Surgeon shall have direct supervision and control over the Civil Hospital, and shall appoint all its other officers and employés and shall define and supervise the discharge of their duties. He shall visit the hospital at least twice daily, and he and the Assistant Attending Physician and Surgeon shall render all necessary medical and surgical attendance to its inmates; provided, that should the number of patients become so great as to necessitate additional medical attendance, the Attending Physician and Surgeon may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, appoint a House Surgeon, who shall receive compensation at a rate not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) per year, who shall live on the hospital grounds and shall be furnished board and lodging free of charge; provided further, that patients occupying private rooms may employ, at their own expense, other physicians to attend them. Physicians not attached to the hospital staff, who may attend patients in private rooms, shall conform to the rules and regulations of the hospital.

SEC. 7. The Attending Physician and Surgeon, the Assistant Attending Physician and Surgeon and the Dispensing Clerk shall continue to discharge the duties prescribed for them respectively in Act No. 189; provided, that the office and the operating room of the Attending Physician and Surgeon and the dispensary shall be transferred to the hospital building and that all surgical operations for civil officers and employés and for members of their families shall be performed in the operating room of the Civil Hospital, except when, the Attending Physician and Surgeon shall deem it advisable to perform an operation at the home of a patient. The Attending Physician and Surgeon is hereby authorized to direct the transfer to the Civil Hospital of all civilian patients who in his judgment can best be treated there, and he shall not be compelled to treat any civil officer or employé or member of his family who shall refuse to go to the hospital when so directed.

SEC. 8. Disbursements for the Civil Hospital shall be made by the Disbursing Officer of the Board of Health for the Philippine Islands.

SEC. 9. 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. 10. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, October 1, 1901.

[No. 248.]

AN ACT appropriating one thousand, one hundred and seventeen dollars and thirty cents ($1,117.30), in Mexican currency, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining schools in the Island of Luban.

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 thousand, one hundred and seventeen dollars and thirty cents ($1,117.30), in Mexican currency, an amount

collected under military authority in the Island of Luban and deposited in the Insular Treasury, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the General Superintendent of Public Instruction for the purpose of establishing and maintaining schools in the Island of

Luban.

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, October 2, 1901.

[No. 249.]

AN ACT requiring all officers and employés who shall receive and have custody of money in the discharge of their official duties to give bond.

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

SECTION 1. In all cases where an insular or provincial officer or employé shall receive or have custody of money in the discharge of his official duties, he shall give bond to the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands for whom it may concern to secure the proper accounting of the same and the payment thereof in accordance with law, unless he be a regular army or navy officer of the United States detailed for the duty, in which case no bond shall be required In cases in which the law now in force makes provisions for the giving and form of bonds, the fixing of their amounts, their approval and their custody, such provisions shall control; but in cases coming within the purview of this act, in which there is now no provision for the giving of a bond, its form, the fixing of its amount, its approval and its custody, it shall be the duty of the Civil Governor to fix the amount of the bond and of the Insular Treasurer to approve the same and to retain it in his custody. The bond of the Insular Treasurer shall be in the custody of the Insular Auditor.

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, October 2, 1901.

[No. 250.]

AN ACT authorizing an increase in the number of employés in the office of the Collector of Customs of the Islands and of the Chief Port.

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

SECTION 1. For the purpose of enabling the Collector of Customs of the Islands and of the Chief Port to maintain his full working force, and at the same time to grant the leaves of absence authorized

by law, the Collector of Customs of the Islands and of the Chief Port is hereby authorized to employ in the work of his office the following additional employés:

One clerk, class 8; one clerk, class 9; one clerk, class 10; three clerks, class A; one clerk, class F; four clerks, class I; four clerks, class J; two employés, class K, at an annual compensation of one hundred and eighty dollars ($180) each; three employés, class K, at an annual compensation of one hundred and twenty dollars ($120) each; one employé, class K, at an annual compensation of ninety dollars ($90); all in money of the United States.

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, October 2, 1901.

[No. 251.]

AN ACT prohibiting the sale of intoxicating beverages in the municipality of Iligan, province of Misamis, and providing the conditions under which prospectors may visit territory in that province inhabited by Moros.

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

SECTION 1. The sale of intoxicating beverages is hereby absolutely prohibited in the municipality of Iligan, province of Misamis, and section 39, sub-section (ii), of the Municipal Code is hereby repealed so far as regards this municipality.

SEC. 2. Prospectors are hereby prohibited from entering that portion of the territory of the province of Misamis which is inhabited by Moros without the written permission of the military commander of the Department of Mindanao and Joló.

SEC. 3. A violation of the provisions of sections 1 or 2 of this act is hereby declared a misdemeanor punishable by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100), or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both, in the discretion of the court, for each offense.

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, October 2, 1901

[No. 252.]

AN ACT providing for the incorporation of the pueblo of La Villanueva, province of Pangasinan, as a barrio of the municipality of Bautista, province of Pangasinan.

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

SECTION 1. The pueblo of La Villanueva, in the province of Pangasinan, is hereby incorporated as a barrio of the municipality of