[No. 50.]

AN ACT appropriating six hundred dollars ($600.00) money of the United States to pay the salary of a meteorological observer at Baguio, province of Benguet island of Luzon.

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

SECTION 1. The sum of six hundred dollars (600.00) money of the United States is hereby appropriated, out of any money not otherwise appropriated in the insular treasury for the purpose of paying the salary of a meteorological observer at Baguio, province of Benguet, island of Luzon.

SEC. 2. The sum hereby appropriated shall be paid to Frank A. Branagan, disbursing officer of the Commission, who shall disburse the sum to the observer in monthly instalments of fifty dollars, beginning August 1, 1900.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, November 23, 1900.

[No. 51.]

AN ACT appropriating seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750) in money of the United States, to be paid to the widow of Eduardo Kintero, chief of police of Tacloban, Leyte, or to the commanding officer of the district for her benefit.

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

SECTION 1. Whereas, Eduardo Kintero, chief of police of Tacloban, Leyte, was murdered while in the discharge of his official duties on April 21, 1900, because of the efficient administration of his office and his loyalty to the United States; and his untimely death leaves his wife and seven young children in needy circumstances:

The sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750) in money of the United States is hereby appropriated out of any money in the insular treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be paid, in the discretion of the Military Governor, either to the widow of Eduardo Kintero or to the commanding officer of the district to be held and expended by him for her benefit.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, November 23, 1900.

[No. 52.]

AN ACT providing for examinations of banking institutions in the Philippine Islands, and for reports by their officers.

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

SECTION 1. All persons or corporations engaged in banking in the Philippine Islands, whether doing business as branches of a principal bank in another country or not, shall, on or before the fifteenth day of January, April, July and October in each year, make reports to the treasurer for the islands, which shall conform as nearly as may be to the 10890-01-6

reports required to be made by national banks of the United States under the laws of the United States and the regulations of the Comptroller of the Currency to such Comptroller, which reports, when made by corporations doing business in the Philippine Islands as branches of a principal bank in another country, shall specifically state all the details of the business conducted during the preceding quarter in the Philippine branch thereof, and shall also report the financial condition of its principal bank at the latest practicable period prior to the date of such reports. They shall also contain such further and other data as may be called for by the treasurer for the islands, either on regular forms or by special inquiries.

SEC. 2. The treasurer for the islands shall prepare a form upon which reports shall be made, and shall furnish copies of such form to every bank in the Philippine Islands.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the treasurer for the islands, or of an authorized deputy by him appointed, personally, at least once in every six months, and at such other times as he may deem expedient, to make an examination of the books of every such bank, of its cash and available assets in the Philippine Islands, and of its general condition and method of doing business, and he shall make report of the same to the Military Governor and to the United States Philippine Commission, and to the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States.

SEC. 4. Every such bank shall afford to the treasurer for the islands, and to his authorized deputy, full opportunity to examine its books, its cash, its available assets, and general condition, at any time when requested so to do by the treasurer.

SEC. 5. Any owner, agent, manager, or other officer in charge of any such bank, who, upon written request by the treasurer, wilfully refuses either to file the report required by this act, on the form required by the treasurer, or to permit the examination required in sections 3 and 4, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 6. In case of the commission of the offence prescribed in section 5, it shall be the duty of the treasurer forthwith, in writing, to inform the attorney-general of the islands of that fact. Upon receiv ing such written information from the treasurer, it shall be the duty of the attorney-general not only to institute a prosecution for the enforcement of the penalties provided in section 5, but also to petition the Military Governor to forbid the bank so offending to continue to do a banking business in the Philippine Islands and to enforce the provisions of this act. Upon receiving such petition, it shall be the duty of the Military Governor to investigate the facts set forth in said petition by hearing upon due notice to the bank, and if he finds them to be true, he may forthwith forbid the bank to continue to do a banking business in the islands and direct the treasurer to take charge of the assets of the bank, reduce the same to money, and pay its debts in the order following:

1. Debts due the United States and the government of the Philippine Islands.

2. Debts due to all persons resident or doing business in the Philippine Islands, and

3. All other debts:

In a manner as near as may be to that provided for the liquidation of the affairs of a national bank by a receiver, under the national banking laws of the United States.

SEC. 7. The certificate of the governor, that he finds the facts set forth in such petition to be true, and has directed the treasurer to perform the duties prescribed in section 6, shall be a sufficient warrant and justification for the treasurer in performing all the duties therein prescribed.

SEC. 8. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, November 23, 1900.

[No. 53.]

AN ACT to prevent discrimination against money of the United States by banking institutions.

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

SECTION 1. Every bank of deposit in the Philippine Islands shall accept deposits both in the money of the United States and in Mexican or other local money, and shall honor checks on or repay such deposits in the kind of money in which they are made.

SEC. 2. A wilful violation of the requirements of this act shall subject the manager or officer of the bank causing such violation, or taking part in it, to a punishment for each offense by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 3. Nothing herein contained shall prevent a bank or its officers from declining in good faith to accept deposits so small in amount as to be unprofitable, but a discrimination in that respect between Mexican or other local money and that of the United States shall be deemed to be a violation of the requirements of this act.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, November 28, 1900.

[No. 54.]

AN ACT appropriating fifty-eight thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and sixty-four cents ($58,625.64) in Mexican money, and five hundred and ninety thousand six hundred and forty-eight dollars and sixty-nine cents ($590,648.69) in money of the United States, for the payment of sundry expenses incurred for the benefit of the Insular Government for the month of December, 1900, and other designated months.

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

SECTION 1. The following sums in Mexican money are appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of the current expenses of the Insular Government for the month of December, 1900, and other designated months, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, viz:

For the Chief Quartermaster of the United States Army for the Division of the Philippines:

For hire of laborers, repairs to buildings, buildings for ice plants at Calamba, Batangas, Legaspi, Nueva Caceres and Catbalogan, for steam power plant for water system at Jolo, for funds to meet emergencies during the month and for incidental expenses, forty thousand dollars ($40,000).

For the Provost Marshal General:

For coal for the Department of Water Supply, four thousand dolars ($4,000); for rent of land on which the Paco Crematory is located, for the months of October, November and December, 1900, ninety dollars ($90);

Total for the Provost Marshal General, four thousand and ninety dollars ($4,090).

For the Provost Marshal at Cavite:

For salaries of interpreter, translator and clerk, one hundred and fifty dollars ($150); for medicines for sick United States military prisoners confined in the United States Military Prison at Cavite for the months of November and December, sixty dollars ($60);

Total for the Provost Marshal at Cavite, two hundred and ten dollars ($210).

For the Forestry Bureau:

For carriage hire from October 11th to December 31st, at five dollars ($5) per day, four hundred and ten dollars ($410).

For the Collector of Internal Revenue of the Islands:

For a refund of sur-taxes erroneously collected in the First and Third Districts, Northern Luzon, First and Third Districts, Southern Luzon, First and Second Districts, Departments of Mindanao and Jolo, and Fourth District, Department of Visayas, twelve thousand, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty-four cents ($12,975.64). For the District Commander at Isabela:

For rent of offices, salaries of interpreters and clerk and for oil for offices for the month of October, one hundred and sixty-five dollars ($165);

For rents of offices and for salary of interpreter for the month of November, one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125);

For rebuilding bridge over Isabela River at Tabuc, and for repairs to reservoir, six hundred and fifty dollars ($650);

Total for the District Commander at Isabela, nine hundred and forty dollars (940).

Total for appropriations in Mexican Currency for the month of December, 1900, and other designated months, fifty-eight thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and sixty-four cents ($58,625.64). SEC. 2. The following sums in money of the United States are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of current expenses of the Insular Government for the month of December, 1900, and other designated months, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, viz:

For the Chief Quartermaster for the Division of the Philippines:

For telegrams and telephones, for the cleaning of cesspools, for rent and repairs to buildings, for alteration of the Cuartel Malate into a military prison, for funds for the Department of Northern Luzon, for funds for the Department of Southern Luzon, for funds for the

Department of Visayas, for expenses of Navy Gunboats, of pony corral and other stables, for the purchase of coal and mineral oil, for miscellaneous expenses and to meet emergency requisitions and expenditures during the month, one hundred and seventy-one thousand, one hundred and five dollars and twenty-one cents, ($171,105.21); for construction of a warehouse on the grounds of the Custom House, Manila, fiftyseven thousand and five hundred dollars, ($57,500); for the purchase of two launches, one to be used at Isabela, District of Basilan, and the other at Vigan, Island of Luzon, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000); Total for the Chief Quartermaster for the Division of the Philippines, two hundred and fifty-three thousand, six hundred and five dollars and twenty-one cents ($253,605.21).

For the Disbursing Quartermaster of Civil Bureaus:

For authorized salaries for the judges, officers and employés of the Court of First Instance at Vigan, the Court of Peace at Vigan, the Court of First Instance at Dagupan, the Court of Peace at Dagupan, the Court of First Instance at Tuguegarao, the Court of Peace at Tuguegarao, the Court of First Instance at Bacolor, the Court of Peace at Bacolor, the Court of First Instance at Iloilo, the Court of Peace at Iloilo, the Court of First Instance at Cebu, the Court of Peace at Cebu, the Court of First Instance at Cavite, the Court of Peace at Cavite, the Court of First Instance at San Isidro, the Court of Peace at San Isidro, the Court of First Instance at Laoag, the Court of Peace at Laoag, the Court of First Instance at La Union, the Court of First Instance at Balanga, the Court of Peace at Balanga, the Court of First Instance at Bohol, five thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifteen cents ($5,625.15).

For pay of Civil Employés in the offices of the following officers: The Board of Officers on Claims, two hundred and twenty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents ($229.99); the Chief Quartermaster, forty dollars ($40); the Assistant to the Chief Quartermaster, three hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents ($365.50); the Judge Advocate, including an increase of twenty dollars in salaries in the Department of Archives, hereby authorized, five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($547.50); the Military Secretary, including an increase in the salary of a stenographer and interpreter from one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125) to one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) per month, hereby authorized, twelve hundred and seventy-four dollars ($1,274); the Officer in Charge of Insurgent Records, four hundred and thirty-two dollars and thirty-two cents ($432.32); the Supreme Court, one thousand and ninety-four dollars and sixty-seven cents ($1,094.67); the Inspector General, two hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents ($241.67); the Adjutant General, one thousand and seventy-six dollars and sixty-seven cents ($1,076.67); the Disbursing Quartermaster, nine hundred and sixty-four dollars and seventeen. cents ($964.17);

For laborers, janitors and for washing towels, three hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifteen cents ($392.15); for supplies for issue and for miscellaneous expenses impossible to itemize, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000); for rents and repairs of buildings, seven hundred and forty dollars ($740); for the purchase of buoys for the port at Isabela, nine hundred dollars ($900); for transportation, one thousand dollars ($1,000);