ing those of domestic animals, together with the sources of mortality and the effects of localities, employments conditions, habits, foods, beverages and medicines on the health of the people, and into the chemical composition and medicinal properties of the minero-medicinal waters of the archipelago.

(c) It shall disseminate useful information upon these and other kindred subjects among the people.

(d) It shall draft and recommend to the central legislative body of the Islands suitable sanitary laws, including laws governing the admittance of persons to the practice of medicine and surgery, pharmacy, dentistry, midwifery, embalming and undertaking; laws to control offensive and dangerous industries or occupations; and laws for the extension of the service of the Insular Board of Health into the several departments, provinces and municipalities of the Philippines.

(e) It shall cause to be prosecuted all violations of sanitary laws. (f) It shall have authority to require all health boards and their officers to forward to the Insular Board of Health copies of all their reports and publications, and such other information in regard to sanitary matters as it may request.

(g) It shall have power to require reports and information concerning any matters with respect to which it may need information for the proper discharge of its duties from all public dispensaries, asylums, hospitals, infirmaries, prisons, penitentiaries, schools, and from the managers, principals or officers thereof, and from all other public institutions, their officers or managers, and from the proprietors, managers, lessees and occupants of all places of public resort throughout the Islands, or from common carriers. Refusal to give such information when called for by the Board shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) or imprisonment not exceeding three months, or both, in the discretion of the court.

(h) It shall have power and authority to make and enforce regulations for preventing and suppressing contagious or epidemic diseases of man or animals; to abate nuisances endangering the public health; to remove the cause of any special disease or mortality; and to make and enforce such interior quarantine regulations as it shall deem necessary in the city of Manila and all other cities, municipalities, provinces, departments or places where there are no local boards of health or health officers, and in places where boards of health or health officers exist, but where the sanitary laws or the regulations of the Board are not being carried into effect; and the power conferred upon Municipal Councils by Section 39, sub-sections l, m, n, o, p, q, r and s of the Municipal Code shall be exercised, subject to the supervision and control of the Insular Board of Health whenever in its opinion the exigency so requires.

(i) It shall have power to engage suitable persons to render any special sanitary service or to make or supervise investigations and examinations requiring expert skill, and to prepare plans or reports relating thereto.

(j) It shall make no contracts and incur no liabilities in excess of the amounts duly appropriated for its use by the central legislative body of the Islands.

(k) It shall decide upon suitable locations for the necessary laboratories for the production of vaccine virus, serums and prophylactics, and shall recommend the construction of such laboratories to the central legislative body of the Islands. The virus, serums or prophy

lactics produced at these laboratories shall be distributed and used under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Health.

(1) It shall serve as the local board of health for the city of Manila. SEC. 5. (a) The Commissioner of Public Health shall be the chief executive officer of the Board, and shall exercise general supervision and control over the various branches of its work.

(b) He shall, from time to time, furnish the central legislative body of the Islands lists of the employés necessary properly to carry on the work of the Board, and shall appoint all duly authorized employés, subject to the provisions of the Civil Service Act and of Act 25.

(c) He shall prepare quarterly estimates showing the probable expense of properly conducting the work of the Board for the coming three months, and shall submit such estimates to the central legislative body of the Islands as a basis for appropriations.

(d) He shall be empowered to require of the officers of the Board annual reports of their work, and such special reports as he may desire. (e) Subject to the sanitary laws of the Islands and the regulations of the Board, he shall have direct supervision and control over all hospitals for contagious or infectious diseases. He shall provide for the detection of persons suffering from such diseases and for their isolation until danger of their spreading disease is past. He shall provide for general and systematic vaccination of the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands and for their inoculation with serums or prophylactics, should such a course at any time become necessary, and shall have immediate direction of the work of suppressing epidemic diseases of man and domestic animals.

(f) He shall make a written report to the chief executive of the Insular Government on or before June 30th of each year. This report shall cover the general sanitary condition of the Philippine Islands and the work of the Board and of its officers and agents during the preceding twelve months. It shall also include a statement of all moneys received and of all disbursements made during the same period.

(g) He shall submit to the chief executive of the Insular Government such special reports as occasion may demand, or as the chief executive may require.

SEC. 6. Subject to the sanitary laws of the Islands and the regulations of the Insular Board of Health, the Chief Health Inspector shall make, or cause to be made, regular inspection of the work of all municipal boards of health; of the work of all employés of the Insular Board of Health; of the cleaning of sewers, streets, walks, alleys, public squares and parks; of the collection and disposition of garbage, dead animals, night soil and contents of cesspools; and of the sanitation of houses, factories, mills, schools, prisons, dairies, markets, meat-shops, bakeries, public water supplies, public bath houses, wells, cisterns, cemeteries, undertaking establishments, asylums, jails, barracks, barrooms, theaters, and all public institutions and places of public resort. For this purpose, he may enter any of the above mentioned buildings, institutions or places of public resort.

SEC. 7. (a) The Sanitary Engineer shall prepare the plans and specifications for all water-works, drainage or sewer systems and crematories for the city of Manila, and for disinfecting apparatus or mechanical sanitary apparatus of whatsoever kind for public institutions in the city of Manila, and for alterations in such public works or apparatus. He shall construct or install, or shall supervise the

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construction or installation of, all such public works or apparatus as may be provided for by law, and they shall not be accepted until he shall certify that the plans adopted by the municipal government have been faithfully carried out.

(b) Upon request of the Municipal Council of any municipality, he shall consider and report to them upon any plans and specifications for municipal water-works, drainage or sewer systems, crematories, disinfecting apparatus or mechanical sanitary apparatus of any kind which the Council may submit to him.

SEC. 8. The Secretary of the Insular Board of Health shall keep its records, shall compile its statistics and shall discharge the other usual duties of secretaries.

SEC. 9. The biological and chemical work of the Insular Board of Health shall be carried on in the government biological and chemical laboratories, either by the regular staffs of those laboratories or by the employés of the Board, as the Commissioner of Public Health may determine.

SEC. 10. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, July 1, 1901.

[No. 158.]

AN ACT in amendment of act No. 151, fixing the compensation of clerks of Courts of First Instance in the several provinces.

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

SECTION 1. The last two paragraphs of Section 1 of Act No. 151, entitled "An Act Fixing the Compensation of the Clerk of the Court of First Instance for each Province," are hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"For the Fourteenth Judicial District, one clerk, who shall also perform the duties of interpreter and translator, at a salary of nine hundred dollars ($900), who shall appoint one deputy clerk for the Sulu Group, one for the Tawi-Tawi Group, one for the Calamianes Group, and one for the Island of Paragua, at a salary of two hundred dollars ($200) each.

"For the Comandancia of Dapitan and the districts of Zamboanga, Cottabato, Davao and Basilan, one clerk, who shall perform the duties of interpreter and translator, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) and who shall appoint one deputy clerk for each of said districts and Comandancia at a salary of two hundred dollars ($200) each."

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this act, 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, July 6, 1901.

[No. 159.]

AN ACT providing for the appointment or temporary officers of courts and clerks of courts in provinces not organized under the Provincial Government Act and in those where the governor has failed to qualify.

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

SECTION 1. In each province not organized under the Provinciai Government Act the Judge of the Court of First Instance of the Province is hereby authorized to make a temporary appointment of a sheriff of the province, to serve until a permanent officer of the court of the province shall have been duly appointed in accordance with law. A temporary sheriff so appointed shall have all the powers of a permanent sheriff within his province, including the right to appoint deputies. Such temporary sheriff shall be paid three dollars ($3.00) per day for attendance upon the Court of First Instance while it is in session, and shall receive for the service of process reasonable fees, to be allowed by the judge in each case. Such fees shall be paid by the party requiring the services in civil actions, and by the Insular Government in criminal prosecutions. The per diem allowance for attendance at court shall also be paid by the Insular Government.

SEC. 2. In any province organized under the Provincial Government Act, where the governor of the province has failed to qualify by giving bond as an officer of the court, in accordance with law, and a sheriff has not been appointed, the judge of the Court of First Instance of the province is hereby authorized to appoint a temporary sheriff, with the same powers as are given to temporary sheriffs by Section 1. The compensation of such temporary sheriff shall be the same, and paid as provided in Section 1.

SEC. 3. The powers of a temporary sheriff appointed under this act shall cease whenever a permanent officer of the court for the province shall have been duly appointed and has qualified by giving the bond required by law.

SEC. 4. In each province not organized under the Provincial Government Act, the judge of the Court of First Instance of the province is hereby authorized to make a temporary appointment of a clerk of court to serve until the permanent clerk of the court for the province shall have been appointed in accordance with law. The temporary clerk so appointed shall have all the powers of a permanent clerk within his province, including the right to appoint deputies. Such temporary clerk shall be paid a reasonable compensation for his services, to be fixed by the judge, to be paid out of the Insular Treasury, and his powers to act as clerk shall cease when a permanent clerk shall have been duly appointed in accordance with law.

SEC. 5. Temporary sheriffs and clerks appointed under the provi sions of this act shall not be required to give bonds.

SEC. 6. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this act, 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, July 6, 1901.

[No. 160.]

AN ACT making temporary provision for the appointment of fiscals in the provinces and islands not yet organized under the Provincial Government Act.

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

SECTION 1. The several persons who, by virtue of military orders or appointments by the Commission, were performing the duties of Promotor Fiscal on the sixteenth day of June, 1901, when Act No. 136, providing for the organization of courts, went into effect, in provinces not yet organized under the Provincial Government Act, but in which Courts of First Instance had been established before the sixteenth day of June, 1901, are hereby continued in office as Fiscals for their respective provinces, to perform the duties imposed upon Provincial Fiscals by the Provincial Government Act, and to receive the same salaries which they were respectively receiving on and before the sixteenth day of June, 1901, and they shall hold office until their respective provinces are organized and Provincial Fiscals shall have been appointed under the Provincial Government Act, or until removed by the Civil Governor with the consent of the Commission. SEC. 2. The Judge of the Court of First Instance of any province not yet organized under the Provincial Government Act and in which no Court of First Instance had been established prior to the sixteenth day of June, 1901, is hereby authorized to make a temporary appointment of a Fiscal for the province, as it was known under the Spanish regime, to perform the duties imposed upon the Provincial Fiscals by the Provincial Government Act and to receive a reasonable compensation, to be fixed by the Judge making the appointment, which compensation shall not in any case exceed one hundred and twentyfive dollars ($125) per month. Such compensation shall date from the day on which the Fiscal is appointed, and the Fiscal so appointed shall hold office until the province for which he is appointed shall have been organized and a Provincial Fiscal shall have been appointed under the Provincial Government Act, or until removed by the Civil Governor with the consent of the Commission.

SEC. 3. The Judge of the Court of First Instance of the Fourteenth Judicial District is hereby authorized to appoint a Fiscal for said district, unless the Civil Governor, with the consent of the Commission, shall, before such appointment by the Judge, have appointed a Fiscal for said district. The Fiscal so appointed, either by the Civil Governor or by the Judge, shall perform the duties imposed upon Provincial Fiscals by the Provincial Government Act and shall receive compensation at the rate of one hundred dollars ($100) per month. Such compensation shall date from the day of appointment, and the Fiscal so appointed shall hold office until removed by the Civil Governor with the consent of the Commission.

SEC. 4. The Judge of the Court of First Instance whose duty it is by law to preside in that court in the Comandancia of Dapitan, Island of Basilan, and the Districts of Zamboanga, Cottabato and Davao, is hereby authorized to appoint a Fiscal for said Comandancia, Island and Districts, unless the Civil Governor, with the consent of the Commission, shall, before such appointment by the Judge, have appointed a Fiscal for said Comandancia, Island and Districts. The Fiscal so appointed, either by the Civil Governor or by the Judge, shall perform the duties imposed upon Provincial Fiscals by the Provincial Government Act, and shall receive compensation at the rate of one