EXHIBIT E. Statement of rice distribution under provisions of Acts 786 and 797, Congressional relief fund, for the year ending September 30, 1903. EXHIBIT F. Statement of distribution of corrugated iron under the provisions of Acts 786 and 797, Congressional relief fund, for the year ending September 30, 1903. EXHIBIT C. REPORT OF THE INSULAR PURCHASING AGENT AS TO CARABAO TO NOVEMBER 20, 1903. OFFICE OF THE INSULAR PURCHASING AGENT FOR THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, SIR: I have the honor to report that under Act No. 828 and under resolution of the Philippine Commission under date of August 7 I have sold the following described carabao: MALVINO DE JESUS, AGRICULTURIST, GUAGUA, PAMPANGA. Female. Male. Do. Do. Do. Female.. Do. Do.. Male. Female. Male.. Do.. Female Male. Female. Male. Female. Male. Do. Do Do Female Male.. Do Female RICARDO VELEZ CORRALES, AGRICULTURIST, GUAGUA, PAMPANGA. FRANCISCO DE GUITERRES, AGRICULTURIST, POROC, PAMPANGA. The above sales were for cash, the first two at $100 being selected by the buyer, and the balance being taken as turned out by this bureau. Transfer certificates have been issued in each case, and will be accounted for to the auditor. In selling the above carabao I find that purchasers prefer a large percentage of females, and would recommend that, if possible, the contractor send at least 50 per cent females. M. L. STEWART, Very respectfully, CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE ON SALE OF CARABAO, Assistant Insular Purchasing Agent. Manila, P. I. (Through executive secretary.) Philippine currency. Which amounted to, at time of payment, at the current rate of exchange, $118,805.45, EXHIBIT D. STATEMENT SHOWING ACTUAL EXPENDITURES UNDER THE CONGRESSIONAL RELIEF FUND. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR, Manila, December 1, 1903. SIR: In compliance with your verbal request of recent date, I have the honor to submit herewith a special report covering operations under the Congressional relief fund to this date since the same was made available to the insular government. The original appropriation by Congress was of the sum of $3,000,000, United States currency, entered on the books of the auditor as P6,000,000. The first appropriation made from this relief fund was by Act No. 738 of the sum of P200,000, or $100,000 United States currency, "for the preliminary expenses of the insular purchasing agent and other agents of the insular government in visiting the ports and countries where draft cattle may be purchased, in paying the purchase price of same, in chartering the necessary transportation for their importation into the Philippine Islands, and for all other expenses incident to their purchase and delivery in the Philippine Islands." This appropriation was fully withdrawn April 27, 1903, by warrant No. 3060, payable to the insular purchasing agent. The sum of 196,239.02 was recently repaid to the insular treasury, leaving the net withdrawals but 3,760.98 which substantially represents the expense of the acting insular purchasing agent while in China making the preliminary contracts as contemplated. By Act 750 of the Commission, an appropriation of an indefinite sum was made to reimburse the insular purchasing agent for food supplies and tents issued under authority of the Commission for the relief of the inhabitants of the town of Mariquina who were rendered homeless by a fire in that town on April 26, 1903. The insular purchasing agent's claim for reimbursement under this act has not been settled. The next appropriation from the Congressional relief fund was of the equivalent of P500,000, by Act No. 786, "for expenditure in the purchase of rice for the purpose of securing to the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands opportunity to purchase rice at reasonable rates and for the purpose of distributing rice gratuitously to those people who are suffering from lack of food and unable to pay for the same." This act provided that the purchase of rice should be made by the insular purchasing agent in such manner and quantities and at such prices and times as the civil governor might direct, and the law further provided that the rice should be distributed in such localities as the civil governor might direct or applied to payment for work on roads or other public improvements, in addition to gratuitous distribution to starving people upon the order of the civil governor. Act No. 786 was amended by Act No. 814, and in order to carry out the provisions of Act No. 786, as amended by Act No. 814, executive order No. 64 was issued, as follows: EXECUTIVE ORDER, No. 64. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, EXECUTIVE BUREAU, The following regulations will govern the sale and distribution of rice furnished under the appropriation by Congress for the relief of the people of the Philippine Islands: Before rice is furnished to any province its provincial board will submit to the civil governor an estimate of the quantity of rice which can be used to advantage in a given period and a statement of the conditions in the province which make the distribution of rice desirable. All rice furnished by the civil government will be consigned to the supervisor or the supervisor-treasurer of the province to which it is shipped. At the time of shipment the insular purchasing agent will forward to the insular auditor a copy of the notice of shipment, together with a statement of the price at which the rice is to be WAR 1903-VOL 5-9 129 |