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SEC. 10. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this act, its passage 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.

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SEC. 11. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, June 21, 1901.

[No. 146.]

AN ACT creating the office of Insular Purchasing Agent for the Government of the Philippine Archipelago, defining the duties of such officer, and making an appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for the purpose of carrying said act into effect.

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

SECTION 1. In order to secure in the most economical and expeditious manner supplies for the various civil departments and offices, and to enable an accurate account of the expenditures in behalf of each department or office to be kept, there is hereby created and shall be maintained in the Government of the Philippine Archipelago the office of Insular Purchasing Agent. The duties of such officer shall be to buy such furniture, stationery and supplies of every kind and description as may be required by the various departments and offices of the Insular Government, by the provincial governments and by the government of the city of Manila in the transaction of official business, and for the purchase of which appropriations may be made by the Commission or Provincial Boards as the case may be.

SEC. 2. The said Purchasing Agent shall be appointed by the Philippine Commission, and shall give a bond to the satisfaction of the Chief Executive of the Islands in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the faithful discharge of his duties and the proper accounting for all moneys and property which may come into his hands.

SEC. 3. The sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available on the first day of July, 1901, for the purchase of articles and supplies hereunder.

SEC. 4. The sum hereby appropriated shall not be chargeable with any of the expense connected with the administration of the office of the Purchasing Agent, such expense to be provided for by separate appropriation, but the necessary cost of freight and cartage and similar charges, including insurance, shall be a proper charge against this appropriation and included in the cost of such articles and supplies. All articles purchased under this act and imported shall be admitted free of duty.

SEC. 5. Each head of a civil department, bureau or office shall submit semi-annually, at the beginning and middle of each fiscal year, to the said purchasing agent, an estimate of articles or supplies which will probably be required for the transaction of its official business for the ensuing six months, such estimates to be used as a basis upon which the Purchasing Agent may make necessary purchases. Whenever practicable such purchases amounting to one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more shall be made under contract after advertisement, but in all cases wherein an emergency exists requiring immediate

delivery, purchase may be made without such contract and advertisement, on the approval of the Chief Executive.

SEC. 6. Each head of a department or bureau of the insular government or the city of Manila and each provincial supervisor shall make written requisition from time to time upon the Purchasing Agent for all articles he may require, and for the payment of which he has an appropriation available. Payment for all articles and supplies so furnished shall be made to the Purchasing Agent, at the actual cost thereof, including freight and other proper charges, by the department, bureau or office or provincial or city government receiving the same, from its available appropriations.

SEC. 7. No articles shall be purchased or sold under the provisions of this Act for other than official purposes, and the purchaser or vendor knowingly violating this provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable accordingly.

SEC. 8. The Purchasing Agent shall render to the Auditor cash and property accounts-current, covering all of his transactions, in such form as the Auditor shall prescribe. The books, records and property in the hands of the Purchasing Agent shall at all times be subject to inspection by the Auditor or his authorized agents.

SEC. 9. All moneys derived from the sale of articles and supplies to the departments, bureaus and offices, to provincial governments and the city government of Manila, as herein provided, shall revert to the appropriation made by this Act, and all deposits in the Treasury by the Purchasing Agent, on this account, shall be as repayments to said appropriation and so credited on the books of the Auditor.

SEC. 10. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this Act, its passage 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. 11. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, June 21, 1901.

[No. 147.]

AN ACT authorizing the Collector of Customs to substitute for two clerks of
Class A, three clerks of Class I.

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

SECTION 1. The Collector of Customs and of the Chief Port be, and he hereby is, given authority, whenever vacancies occur in positions held by clerks of Class A, to change the number of clerks in his office by substituting for two clerks of Class A, three clerks of Class I, and to fill the three clerkships in Class I by appointment, as provided by the Civil Service Law.

SEC. 2. Whenever the Collector of Customs shall exercise the authority to make the change provided in the foregoing section, he shall certify the fact to the Military Governor, to the Philippine Commission, and to the Civil Service Board.

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, June 21, 1901.

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[No. 148.]

AN ACT regulating expenditure of money under appropriations, forbidding the allowances to officers or clerks for extra compensation, except in case of clerks or employés acting as night teachers in the public schools, and regulating the payment of traveling expenses.

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

SECTION 1. All sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the pubic service shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made, and for no others, and no moneys appropriated for contingent, incidental or miscellaneous purposes shall be expended or paid for official or clerical compensation.

SEC. 2. No allowance or compensation shall be made to any officer or clerk by reason of the discharge of duties which belong to any other officer or clerk in the same, or any other, department, and no allowance or compensation shall be made for any extra service, whatever, which any officer or clerk may be required to perform unless expressly authorized by law.

SEC. 3. No officer in any branch of the public service, or any other person, whose salary, pay or emoluments are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance or compensation in any form whatever for the disbursement of public money, or for any other service or duty whatever, unless the same is authorized by law, and the appropriation therefor explicitly states that it is for such additional pay, extra allowance or compensation.

Provided, however, that the employment of clerks and employés in the various civil departments as evening or night teachers in the public schools is hereby authorized, such salaries being hereby made a proper charge against the appropriations available for the payment of salaries of teachers.

SEC. 4. Hereafter actual and necessary traveling expenses only shall be allowed to any person holding employment or appointment under the Government of the Philippine Archipelago, and all allowances in excess of the amount actually paid, except as herein provided, are declared illegal, and no credit shall be allowed to any of the disbursing officers of the Government of the Philippine Archipelago for payments or allowances in violation of this provision. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the payment of per diem in lieu of actual expenses.

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. 7. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, June 21, 1901.

[No. 149.]

AN ACT providing for the withdrawal from circulation, by the Treasurer, of worn-out or mutilated circulating notes issued by the United States, or any banking association therein.

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

SECTION 1. Whenever any worn-out or mutilated circulating notes issued by the Treasurer of the United States, or by any banking asso

ciation in the United States organized under the "National Bank Act" of the United States, shall come into the treasury of the Philippine Islands, it shall be the duty of the Insular Treasurer to withhold such notes from deposit in banks or further circulation in the Philippine Islands, and to cause them to be transmitted in convenient sums to the disbursing agent of the government of the Philippine Islands resident in Washington, appointed by virtue of Act No. 129, with directions to such agent to cause the redemption of such circulating notes by the United States Treasury, and to obtain in place thereof notes fit for use in accordance with law, and to pass the sums so remitted to the credit of the Insular Government in addition to the sum in his hands by virtue of said Act No. 129, or by virtue of any further appropriations that may be made for the purposes specified in Act No. 129. Upon the transmission of any sum to the disbursing agent at Washington, in compliance with the provisions of this Act, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer forthwith to notify the Commission of the sum transmitted, and the date thereof, to enable the Commission to pass the proper appropriation bill appropriating the money so transmitted for the use of the disbursing agent at Washington.

SEC. 2. Upon the receipt by the disbursing agent at Washington of any worn-out or mutilated notes transmitted to him by the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands, in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, it shall be the duty of such agent forthwith to cause the notes so transmitted to be redeemed by the Treasurer of the United States in new notes fit for use, and to credit the Insular Government with the sum so received, and the sum so received shall be disbursed by him in the manner provided in the said Act No. 129.

SEC. 3. The Insular Treasurer shall receive, at their face value, from all officials who by law are required to make payments to him, all worn-out or mutilated notes of the character described in Section 1, which are tendered to him in pursuance of law, whenever such notes are in such condition that they will be received by the Treasurer of the United States and redeemed by notes fit for use. The Insular Treasurer shall also receive and redeem at their face value, in notes fit for use, all worn-out or mutilated notes of the character described in Section 1, which may be tendered to him by any member of the public. All worn-out or mutilated notes received by virtue of this section shall be disposed of as provided in Sections 1 and 2. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, June 22, 1901.

[No. 150.]

AN ACT appropriating three thousand, six hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents ($3,682.50), in money of the United States, to be paid to the Quartermaster of the United States Military Prison at Bacolor, and amending Act No. 143.

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

SECTION 1. The sum of three thousand, six hundred and eightytwo dollars and fifty cents ($3,682.50), in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the Quartermaster of the United States Military Prison at

Bacolor for the following purposes: For the payment of ration supplies for the native convicts at the United States Military Prison at Bacolor for the months of April, May and June, 1901, three thousand, four hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents ($3,412.50), and for salaries as follows: One clerk, Class A, and one capataz at twentyfive dollars ($25) per month, for the months of May and June, two hundred dollars ($200); one scout interpreter for the month of June, 1901, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($37.50); for additional amount required to pay the police at Guagua and Bacolor for the second quarter of the year 1901, thirty-two dollars and fifty cents ($32.50).

SEC. 2. Act No. 143, enacted June 21, 1901, is hereby amended by striking out the appropriation for the office of the Chief Statistician and inserting in lieu thereof the following words "Office of the Chief Statistician.

"For allowance in lieu of salary for the Chief Statistician for earned leave of absence and in lieu of traveling expenses for the Chief Statistician to San Francisco, three hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty-seven cents ($321.57)."

SEC. 3. 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 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, June 26, 1901.

[No. 151.]

AN ACT fixing the compensation of the Clerk of the Court of First Instance for each province.

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

SECTION 1. Clerks of Courts of First Instance appointed by virtue of Section 58 of Act No. 136, providing for the organization of courts, shall receive salaries at the rates hereinafter specified, payable monthly. For the Provinces of Iloilo and Cebu, twelve hundred dollars each. For the Provinces of Pangasinan, Batangas and Occidental Negros, eleven hundred dollars each.

For the Provinces of Pampanga, Bulacan, Bohol and Leyte, one thousand dollars each.

For the Provinces of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Union (including Benguet), Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Rizal, Laguna, Cavite, Tayabas (including Infanta, Principe and Polillo), Albay (including Catanduanes), Ambos Camarines, Capiz, Antique, Samar and Misamis, nine hundred dollars each.

For the Provinces of Cagayan, Zambales, Bataan, Mindoro, Sorsogon, Oriental Negros and Surigao, eight hundred dollars each.

For the Provinces of Isabela, Abra and Marinduque, seven hundred dollars each.

For the Provinces of Lepanto (including Bontoc), Romblon, and the Island of Paragua, five hundred dollars each.

For the Provinces of Nueva Viscaya and Masbate, four hundred dollars each.

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