passengers to recover for personal injury in the ordinary tribunals. The amount of the bond shall be fixed by the Collector and the suffi ciency thereof shall be approved by him.

SEC. 3. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the landing of passengers and baggage gratuitously, the intent of this act being to limit the business for hire of landing passengers and baggage to the person selected in accordance with this act. The word "person" used in this act shall be held to include firm or company.

SEC. 4. The Collector of Customs shall have complete supervision over the execution of the contract, shall make reasonable regulations in regard thereto, and shall have the power upon breach of the contract or regulations to revoke the license before the expiration of the contract and award a new contract to another person in accordance with section 2.

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 5, 1901.

[No. 220.]

AN ACT to amend section 24 of the Civil Service Act by requiring that amendments to the rules adopted by the Board shall be approved by the Civil Governor.

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

SECTION 1. Section 24 of the Civil Service Act is hereby amended by striking out the following sentence: "The rules to be prepared and certified by the Board shall be promulgated by executive order of the Military Governor," and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "The rules to be prepared and certified by the Board shall not take effect until approved by the Civil Governor, when they shall be promulgated by his executive order."

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, September 5, 1901.

[No. 221.]

AN ACT providing a provincial fiscal for the Province of Masbate and repealing

section 6 of Act 105.

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

SECTION 1. There shall be in the Province of Masbate a provincial fiscal, whose salary shall be eight hundred dollars ($800) a year, in money of the United States.

SEC. 2. Section 6 of Act No. 105, making applicable the General Provincial Act to the Province of Masbate, is hereby repealed.

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, September 5, 1901.

[No. 222.]

AN ACT providing for the organization of the Departments of the Interior, of Commerce and Police, of Finance and Justice, and of Public Instruction.

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

SECTION 1. Whereas, the President of the United States, through the Secretary of War, has directed the establishment of four departments, to-wit: the Department of the Interior, the Department of Commerce and Police, the Department of Finance and Justice, and the Department of Public Instruction and has appointed persons to be secretaries or heads of such departments. Now, therefore,

The Department of the Interior shall embrace within its executive control the Bureau of Health, the Quarantine Service of the Marine Hospital Corps, the Bureau of Forestry, the Bureau of Mining, a Bureau of Agriculture, a Bureau of Fisheries, the Weather Bureau, a Bureau of Pagan and Mohammedan Tribes, the Bureau of Public Lands, the Bureau of Government Laboratories, and the Bureau of Patents and Copyrights.

SEC. 2. The Department of Commerce and Police shall have under its executive control a Bureau of Island and Inter-Island Transportation, the Bureau of Post Offices, the Bureau of Telegraphs, the Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey, a Bureau of Engineering and Construction of Public Works other than Public Buildings, a Bureau of Insular Constabulary, a Bureau of Prisons, a Bureau of Light Houses, a Bureau of Commercial and Street Railroad Corporations and all Corporations except Banking.

SEC. 3. The Department of Finance and Justice shall embrace within its executive control the Bureau of the Insular Treasury, the Bureau of the Insular Auditor, the Bureau of Customs and Immigration, the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant, a Bureau of Banks, Banking, Coinage and Currency, and the Bureau of Justice.

SEC. 4. The Department of Public Instruction shall embrace under its executive control the Bureau of Public Instruction, a Bureau of Public Charities, Public Libraries and Museums, the Bureau of Statistics, a Bureau of Public Records, a Bureau of Public Printing, and a Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings.

SEC. 5. The secretaries of the departments described in the foregoing sections shall exercise the executive control therein conferred, under the general supervision of the Civil Governor. The executive control vested by law, however, in the central government over provincial and municipal governments and the civil service, shall be exer

cised directly by the Civil Governor through the Executive Secretary. SEC. 6. The officers and subordinates of each department shall consist of the secretary and such assistant clerks and other employés as may be provided by law. The official correspondence of the head of each department may be recorded by direction of the head of the department in the office of the Executive Secretary, and such clerical work as may be needed in each of the departments and as may be conveniently done in the office of the Executive Secretary shall be there done by direction of the head of each department.

SEC. 7. Nothing in this act contained in respect to the executive control by the department of Finance and Justice over the office of Insular Auditor and the office of Insular Treasurer shall affect the powers of those officers conferred by Act No. 90, and the independence of judgment to be exercised by the Auditor in auditing and adjudicating the validity of accounts presented to him in accordance with law.

SEC. 8. 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. 9. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, September 6, 1901.

[No. 223.]

AN ACT amending the Provincial Government Act No. 83, as amended by Act

No. 133.

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

SECTION 1. Section 11 of Act No. 83 is hereby amended by adding thereto the following:

"Whenever the Provincial Fiscal is absent from the province, or fails or refuses to discharge his duty by reason of illness or other cause, or by reason of personal interest in a prosecution or other matter is disqualified to act therein as Provincial Fiscal, the Judge of the Court of First Instance for the province is authorized and required to appoint a temporary Provincial Fiscal, who shall be paid out of the provincial treasury the same compensation per day as that provided by law for the regular provincial fiscal for the days actually employed. The fiscal thus temporarily appointed shall discharge all the duties of the Provincial Fiscal as provided by law which the regular Provincial Fiscal fails or is unable to perform. The Provincial Fiscal of any province may, by authority of the Provincial Board, have a Deputy Fiscal, and a clerk or clerks, to be appointed by the Provincial Fiscal, at such salaries, out of the Provincial Treasury, as may be allowed, with the concurrence of the Insular Treasury; provided, that after the first of March, 1902, such clerk or clerks shall be selected in accordance with the rules and restrictions of the Civil Service Act."

SEC. 2. Section 32 of the Provincial Government Act, as amended by Act No. 133, shall be amended by substituting for the figures 24 in the next to the last line of said section the figures 74.

SEC. 3. Said Provincial Government Act as amended shall be further amended by adding the following additional sections:

"SEC. 39. No provincial official shall leave his province without obtaining permission so to do from the Civil Governor.

"SEC. 40. The actual and necessary traveling expenses of the deputies, subordinates and other employés of provincial officers engaged in traveling in the province on official business shall be paid from the provincial treasury when authorized by the provincial board and approved by the Insular Treasurer. The same limitation as to the amount of expenses per day which applies to the traveling expenses of the provincial officers shall apply to those herein authorized.

"SEC. 41. In applying the statutory limitation upon the amount per day which can be actually expended and reimbursed to provincial officers and their subordinates for expenses in traveling on official business for the province, under any one of the special acts organizing the various provinces, the total actual traveling expenses for each quarter shall be added together and divided by the number of days of the quarter during which the officer or his subordinate has been absent on public business in the province from the capital thereof; and if the amount per day thus calculated and averaged for the quarter does not exceed the limitation of maximum per diem expenses authorized in special acts, the whole amount actually expended shall be allowed to the officer or his subordinate.

"SEC. 42. The regulations and general orders of the Military Governor prescribing the internal revenue taxes are hereby amended in so far as to abolish the urbana taxes, from and after the first of January, 1902, in all provinces organized under the General Provincial Act, and in all municipalities organized under the Municipal Code, whether within organized provinces or not.

"SEC. 43. In all cases in which by the special provincial acts provision is made for the meetings of the presidentes of the municipalities of the province at the capital of the Province, the actual expenses of the presidentes for the necessary travel from their respective municipalities to the capital for their attendance at the meeting in the capital and for their return to their respective municipalities shall be paid out of the Provincial Treasury by order of the Provincial Board; but the expenses shall not exceed the maximum limitation imposed by law upon the traveling expenses of provincial officials."

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.

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SEC. 5. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, September 6, 1901.

[No. 224.]

AN ACT providing certain conditions of service in the insular, provincial and municipal branches of the Philippine Government.

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

SECTION 1. It shall be a condition of the contract of employment of any person in the Insular, Provincial or Municipal branch of the

Philippine Government, for whose transportation from the United States to these Islands any expense has been incurred on the part of the Insular, Provincial or Municipal branch of the Philippine Government by way of salary for the time consumed in coming from the United States to the Philippine Islands or for actual traveling expenses, that such person shall serve at least two years in the position to which appointed, unless transferred from such position in the interest of good administration, or unless dismissed or separated from the service by competent authority.

SEC. 2. A breach of the condition provided in the foregoing section shall entitle the proper officer to withhold payment of all salary due to the person employed and violating the condition and shall debar such person from ever entering again the public service of the Philippine Government in any of its branches. No return transportation shall be furnished to such employé. In such case, an action shall lie on the petition of the Attorney-General for the recovery of the amount expended by the government for the expenses reimbursed, and the salary paid for the period before the arrival of the employé in the Islands.

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, September 6, 1901.

[No. 225.]

AN ACT to amend section 99 of the municipal code.

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

SECTION 1. Section 99 of the Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding thereto the following:

"In case the Military Governor shall not designate a person to act as Provincial Treasurer in accordance with the foregoing, then the functions required to be performed by the Provincial Treasurer in respect to the municipality, its officers and the assessment and collection of taxes therein in this code shall be performed by the Collector of Internal Revenue of the district in which the municipality as organized under the Code shall be situate."

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, September 6, 1901.