EXECUTIVE ORDER OFFICE OF THE CIVIL GOVERNOR No. 113. The distinguishing flag of the coast guard and transportation service shall be white with a blue border one and five-tenths inches in length for every foot of length of the flag. On the white ground there shall be a yellow spread eagle, holding in its claws an anchor, the shank of which is nearly horizontal. WM. H. TAFT, Civil Governor. EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 1. GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, EXECUTIVE BUREAU, Pursuant to the provisions of section one, act numbered five, of the Philippine Commission, enacted September nineteenth, nineteen hundred, William S. Washburn, chairman Philippine civil service board, is designated as chief examiner of said board. WM. H. TAFT, Civil Governor. EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 2. GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, Manila, January 25, 1903. Pursuant to the provisions of the act of Congress of July first, nineteen hundred and two, the ratio for the reduction of United States currency and insular currency is hereby fixed at one dollar, United States currency, for two dollars and sixty-six cents insular currency; this rate to remain in force for at least ten days and until further order. EXECUTIVE ORDER WM. H. TAFT, Civil Governor. GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, Manila, Jannary 31, 1903. No. 3. Pursuant to instructions from the War Department, Captain Henry T. Allen, Sixth United States Cavalry, is announced as Chief of the Philippines Constabulary, with the rank, pay, and allowances of brigadier-general, United States Army. WM. H. TAFT, Civil Governor. EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 4. GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE Islands, EXECUTIVE BUREAU, Executive Order Numbered One hundred and twelve, dated December 1, 1902, is amended to read as follows: The following regulations shall govern the matter of leaves of absence granted under the provisions of Act Numbered Eighty to all officials, including heads of offices or bureaus, and to all employees, filling appointive offices and positions of trust and employment under the government of the Philippine Islands, and are hereby published for the information and guidance of all concerned in order that a uniform practice may obtain throughout the service. All orders heretofore issued from the office of the military governor and from this office relating thereto are hereby revoked. I. Heads of offices or bureaus are directed to keep a systematic record, on a form provided for that purpose, of leaves of absence of all officers and employees connected with their offices or bureaus respectively, and to enter daily upon this record all absences from duty, showing whether with leave, without leave, or on sick leave, and to forward to the civil-service board at the beginning of each month, on Form Three furnished by said board, a statement of the absences of all officers and employees from any cause whatever during the preceding month. II. In submitting statements of leaves of absence, preliminary to granting leave to officers and employees under the provisions of sections two and three of Act Numbered Eighty, all heads of offices or bureaus will forward a prompt and clear report through the civil-service board on a form prescribed by said board, showing all absences from duty, including therein the period or periods of leave, if any, previously enjoyed, and whether with leave, without leave, or on sick leave. III. (a) Applications for accrued leave for a period of more than two days must be made in writing one week in advance, wherever possible, of the date on which the leave is desired to become effective, upon Form Numbered Thirty-nine, Philippine civil-service board, to the head of the office or bureau for recommendation and transmission through said board to the proper executive officer authorized to exercise executive control as contemplated in Act Numbered Two hundred and twenty-two. (b) Accrued leave of absence of an employee in the insular civil service shall be computed pro rata in accordance with the schedule contained in section two of Act Numbered Eighty. The leave of an employee accruing while he was connected with the Army or Navy shall be computed from the date of detail to civil duty; in the case of an officer, on the basis of the pay and allowance received by him during his detail; and in the case of an enlisted man, on the basis of the annual salary first received by him after discharge from the Army or Navy: Provided, That no time intervened between the time of such discharge and his appointment in the civil service, in which event no leave will be allowed during the period of his detail while connected with the Army or Navy. (c) An employee who is separated from the civil service without prejudice (namely, without cause) may be given leave with pay and his name shall remain on the pay roll at the rate he is then receiving for a period equaling in money value the period of accrued leave estimated in accordance with the schedule provided in section two of Act Numbered Eighty. (d) An employee who is granted leave for vacation purposes shall be given leave with pay at the rate he is then receiving for a period equaling in money value the period of accrued leave estimated in accordance with the schedule provided in section two of Act Numbered Eighty; and he may be granted, if he so desires, such additional leave, without pay, as will give him the aggregate length of time on leave, with and without pay, as provided in the aforesaid schedule. IV. (a) All applications for leave of absence on account of illness for a period of more than two days must be made on Form Numbered Forty, Philippine civil-service board, and transmitted as in the case of applications for accrued leave: Provided, That sick leave shall not be granted in advance. (b) When it becomes necessary for an officer or an employee to avail himself of the provisions of section three of Act Numbered Eighty, notice must be sent immediately to the head of the office or bureau in which he is employed. Where an officer or an employee contemplates leaving the islands on account of illness he must submit an application on Form Numbered Forty and a medical certificate on Form Numbered Forty-one described in paragraph c of this section. Permission to be absent may thus be obtained and the office record will show "absent with leave" each day until return to duty, which shall not be construed as sick leave unless satisfactory evidence of illness is furnished, as required in paragraph c of this section. (c) Within five days after return to duty from said leave of absence, the officer or employee shall file with the head of the office or bureau a statement in regard to his absence on account of illness (on Form Numbered Forty, if not previously filed), which must be made under oath before an officer in the Philippine Islands duly authorized to administer oaths, accompanied by a certificate made on Form Numbered Forty-one by the attending physician or physicians during the period of his illness. Said certificate or certificates shall give fully and specifically the name, nature, etiology, history, and description of each disease or disability from which the employee was suffering, the exact period or periods, giving dates, during which the physician writing the certificate treated him, the period or periods, if any, during which he was a patient in a hospital, and if not in a hospital the exact length of time the employee was actually confined to his house, and the length of time such disease wholly incapacitated him from performing the duties of his position. A duplicate copy of report of laboratory test or examination made in each case must accompany the medical certificate. In all cases the certificate of illness must be made by a reputable practicing physician or surgeon. A medical reexamination may be made and a report rendered thereon by a duly authorized medical examiner when so directed by the civil governor or by a secretary of one of the departments. If it shall be shown that the disease named was due to immoral or vicious habits, no allowance for leave on account of illness shall be made, but such leave shall be chargeable against unused accrued leave, and if in excess of accrued leave it shall be without pay, as no such cases will be regarded as meritorious. The physician must state whether or not there are any indications whatever that the disease named was due to immoral or vicious habits: Provided, That the physician, before making a report or expressing an opinion, as required herein, shall state to the applicant that he will not make any report whatever or submit a medical certificate, if he formally withdraws his application for sick leave for the period of such illness, and substitutes therefor an application for accrued leave. If the evidence of illness submitted is satisfactory, sick leave will be granted with pay for the time during which such employee was incapacitated on account of such illness, provided that such period shall not exceed sixty days in any one calendar year. V. Leaves of absence not exceeding two days may be granted in the discretion of the head of an office or bureau, and in case of illness without the certificate of an attending physician, but the applicant must certify that he was ill and unable to perform his official duties. VI. Temporary and emergency employees are not entitled to the benefits of leaves of absence provided by any existing law or order. VII. Leave of absence for any reason other than serious illness must be contingent upon the necessities of the service, and although definitely provided by law, it is not an inherent right which may be recognized without due regard for the interests of the public service. VIII. In computing periods of absence from duty, there is no authority of law for considering such absence on Saturday as less than one entire day, Saturday being a short day and not a half holiday. IX. Officials and employees on leave of absence are required to report to the heads of their respective offices or bureaus at the end of each month by registered mail their post-office addresses for the ensuing month, and shall promptly report in a similar manner and in sufficient detail every unexpected and unavoidable delay which may have occurred during the period contemplated by their leaves of absence. X. No official or employee holding a classified position in the Philippine civil service shall be dropped from the rolls of his office for unexplained absence in the United States until at least forty days after the expiration of the period of absence contemplated by the leave granted. XI. All officers and employees who are granted leave of absence for the purpose of visiting the United States and who contemplate returning to duty upon the expiration of such leave of absence shall, before leaving the Archipelago, make application to this office for transportation from San Francisco returning to Manila. In each such application the date of the expiration of leave of absence and the post-office address of the applicant while in the United States will be stated. Subsequent communication regarding return transportation and prompt report of any change occurring in the applicant's post-office address will be directed by him to the Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Department, Washington, District of Columbia, and a duplicate copy of each such communication mailed at the same time to the executive secretary, Manila. WM. H. TAFT, Civil Governor. EXECUTIVE Order, No. 5. GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, EXECUTIVE BUREAU, Pursuant to the provisions of section five of Act Numbered Three hundred and fiftyfive, Philippine Commission, as amended by section one of Act Numbered Six hundred and twenty-five, the captain of the port of Manila is hereby directed to turn over to the collector of customs for the Philippine Archipelago, upon proper receipts therefor, all public records and property held by him as said captain of the port. Upon receipt from the captain of the port of Manila of such public records and property, the collector of customs for the Philippine Archipelago shall assume all the duties of the said office of the captain of the port of Manila. The following employees of the office of the captain of the port of Manila will be transferred to the office of the collector of customs for the Philippine Archipelago: One harbormaster, at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. One inspector of boilers, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per annum. One inspector of hulls, at two thousand dollars per annum. One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum. Three patrolmen, at three hundred dollars per annum. The disbursing officer of the captain of the port of Manila shall deposit with the insular treasurer, to the credit of his appropriation, all his unexpended balances. Such funds shall then be available for the payment of salaries of officers and employees transferred by this order to the office of the collector of customs for the Philippine Archipelago, to the extent to which they may be needed, and for the necessary expenses of discharging the functions hereby transferred to said collector of customs. WM. H. TAFT, Civil Governor. EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 6. GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, EXECUTIVE Bureau, Pursuant to the provisions of the act of Congress of July first, nineteen hundred and two, the ratio for the reduction of United States and insular currency is hereby fixed at one dollar United States currency for two dollars and sixty cents insular currency; this rate to remain in force for at least ten days and until further order. Pursuant to the provisions of section one of Act Numbered Five hundred and fortythree, as amended by section one of Act Numbered Six hundred and thirty-nine, Honorable James F. Smith, secretary of public instruction, is hereby designated to perform the duties of secretary of the department of finance and justice, in the absence of the present head of that department. WM. H. TAFT, Civil Governor. EXECUTIVE Order No. 8. GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, EXECUTIVE BUREAU, Hereafter no person will be permitted to appear before any bureau or office of the government of the Philippine Islands, as an attorney in the prosecution of any claim against said government, without first filing with the head of such bureau or office either a duly executed power of attorney, or a letter signed by the claimant as evidence of his attorneyship, which letter shall specifically define the authority conferred in the premises. WM. H. TAFT, Civil Governor. EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 9. GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, EXECUTIVE BUREAU, Pursuant to the provisions of section twenty-four of Act Numbered One hundred and seventy-five, Philippine Commission, as amended by Act Numbered Six hundred and ten, and as amended and substituted by act numbered six hundred and fiftytwo, empowering the Civil Governor, by executive order, to issue regulations as to the form of written authority to be issued for purchasing or receiving firearms and to provide for the exaction of a bond, upon terms to be fixed by him, which shall be for the safe-keeping of the weapon or weapons authorized to be purchased or held under the provisions of said act, the following regulations are hereby issued for said purpose: 1. When it shall be decided by any competent authority, under the provisions of said section twenty-four, act numbered one hundred and seventy-five, Philippine Commission, as amended, that a license shall be issued to any resident to purchase and hold arms for his reasonable protection, or for use in hunting or other lawful purposes, such license shall not issue until the person making application therefor shall execute and deliver to the officer issuing such license a good and sufficient bond in the penal sum of two hundred dollars, conditioned that the principal in such bond shall safely keep the said arms authorized to be purchased or held and will deliver the same to the government of the Philippine Islands on demand. 2. When it shall be decided by competent authority, under the provisions of section one, act numbered six hundred and ten, Philippine Commission, to deliver arms and ammunition to any municipality for the purpose of equipping the municipal police, such arms and ammunition shall not be issued to the municipality until the president and all the municipal councilors of such municipality shall execute and deliver to the provincial governor a good and sufficient bond in the penal sum of one hundred dollars for each gun to be issued and received by the municipality, conditioned that the same shall be delivered upon order of the provincial or the civil governor to the insular government, and shall not be lost or taken from the municipal police authorized to use them and into whose custody they shall be delivered. 3. The form of application for a license to possess firearms under the provisions of said section twenty-four, Act Numbered One hundred and seventy-five, as amended, shall be substantially as follows: 66 APPLICATION TO POSSESS FIREARMS. "[Under the provisions of section 24, Act No. 175, Philippine Commission, as amended by Act No. 652, Philippine Commission.] “I, tion , age residing years, born in by occupa-, request authority to have in my possession or purchase the following-described arms and ammunition: 4. The form of the bond to be executed by the applicant upon receiving a license to possess or purchase firearms under the above-mentioned provisions of law and these regulations shall be substantially as follows: "BOND. "Know all men by these presents, That we, province of ing in the town of residing in the town of residing in the town of Philippine Islands, as principal, and residPhilippine Islands, as sureties, are held and firmly bound unto the government of the Philippine Islands in the penal dollars (two hundred dollars for each firearm) United States currency, to the payment of which sum well and truly to be made we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. "The condition of this obligation is such that whereas 190-, issued to the above bounden sum of day of has on this a license to purchase and the above bounden has covenanted and agreed, and does hereby covenant and agree, that he will safely keep the said arms, and each of them, and will deliver the same to the government of the Philippine Islands on demand: "Now, therefore, if the above bounden shall and will in all respects duly and fully observe and perform all and singular the aforesaid covenants, conditions, and agreements by the said to be observed and performed, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, then the above obligation shall be void and of no effect; otherwise to remain in full force and virtue. of "In witness whereof, the parties hereto have hereunto set their hands this |