which may be contributed for the purpose of aiding the Philippine Exhibit by the Directors of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the latter sum to be expended under such limitations and restrictions as may be imposed by the Directors of the Exposition.

SEC. 6. All letters mailed by the Exposition Board, its members, or its secretary, on Exposition business, together with mail inclosed in return envelopes from persons communicating with the Board, its secretary, or its agents on Exposition business, shall be carried in the mails of the Philippine Islands free.

SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the heads of all the Bureaus of the Insular Government and the governors and members of the provincial boards of all the provinces, and of all the municipal presidents and other municipal officers in the Islands, together with Constabulary officers and the captains and officers of Coast Guard vessels, to furnish every assistance in their power not inconsistent with law to the Exposition Board and its agents appointed under this Act for the purpose of expediting the securing of exhibits, their transportation, and their classification. The free use of the telegraph lines of the Islands shall be allowed to the members of the Exposition Board and its employees and agents for the purpose of facilitating the business of the Board.

SEC. 8. No taxes or duties shall be imposed by the Insular, provincial, or municipal governments of the Islands on exhibits collected by the Exposition Board for exhibit, either in Manila or Saint Louis.

SEC. 9. The Board shall render a monthly report of the work done by it to the Civil Governor, and a quarterly account of its receipts and expenditures to the Civil Governor and the Auditor for the Archipelago.

SEC. 10. The Civil Governor shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Philippine Commission, a disbursing officer for the Exposition Board, under this Act, who shall receive compensation at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars, United States currency, per annum. In addition to his acting as disbursing officer, he shall discharge such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Exposition Board. The Civil Governor shall fix his bond. The disbursing officer thus appointed shall be subject to all the requirements imposed by existing law upon the disbursing officers of other Bureaus and Departments in respect to rendering accounts to the Auditor and in his drawing of moneys from the Treasury and his custody and deposit of the same.

SEC. 11. The Civil Governor is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Commission, five honorary commissioners, who shall be representative Filipinos, to visit the Exposition in May, nineteen hundred and four, and to remain in the United States, chiefly in Saint Louis, for the purpose of acting upon the committees of award, of advising the Board appointed under this Act, and of representing the Filipino people upon all occasions, when such representation will be necessary or proper, in the public meetings and congresses at the Exposition. Such honorary commissioners shall receive their actual traveling expenses and subsistence in going from Manila to Saint Louis, in their stay in Saint Louis, and in their return to Manila, and a per diem compensation of seven dollars per day each for a period beginning thirty-five days before the day of the opening of the Exposition until thirty-five days after its close, or so long as they may remain in the United States in attendance upon

the Exposition for any less period. The honorary commissioners shall have the right to visit Washington to pay their respects to the President of the United States during the first two months of the Exposition, and their expenses of travel and subsistence during this trip trom Saint Louis to Washington and return shall be included in the traveling expenses and subsistence allowed under this section.

SEC. 12. The honorary commissioners appointed by virtue of the provisions of the next preceding section shall organize by selecting one of their number as chairman and one of their number as secretary. The commissioners thus organized shall have the power to employ a competent interpreter, who shall receive compensation, while employed, at the rate of five dollars per day, in United States currency, and the payment of his actual expenses from Manila to Saint Louis, of his stay in Saint Louis, and return to Manila. He shall be employed for a period not to exceed beginning thirty-five days before the opening of the Exposition in Saint Louis until not exceeding thirty-five days after its close. It shall be the duty of the commissioners as a body to prepare and make a comprehensive report upon the entire Louisiana Purchase Exposition, including the congresses attended by them, after the close of the Expositon, and to forward such report to the Philippine Commission on or before the first day of March, nineteen hundred and five. No further compensation for the rendering of this report shall be paid the honorary commissioners than that provided in the next preceding section.

SEC. 13. There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, in money of the United States, to be expended by order of the Board in meeting obligations authorized to be incurred under section four of this Act.

SEC. 14. The Civil Service Act and its amendments shall not apply to appointments under this Act.

SEC. 15. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twentysixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 16. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, November 11, 1902.

[No. 515.]

AN ACT to amend act numbered eighty, entitled "An act to regulate the hours of labor, leaves of absence, and transportation of appointees under the Philippine Civil Service."

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

SECTION 1. Section three of Act Numbered Eighty, entitled "An Act to regulate the hours of labor, leaves of absence, and transportation of appointees under the Philippine Civil Service," is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 3. Where an employee in the civil service is himself ill, or in cases where any member of the immediate family of an employee

is afflicted with a contagious disease, making the presence of such employee in the Department or Office in which he is employed unsafe for the health of his fellow-employees, he may be absent from duty not exceeding sixty days in any calendar year with pay: Provided, That he shall notify the head of the Bureau immediately of the cause of his absence: And provided, That after his return he shall establish by evidence, to be prescribed in regulations adopted by order of the Civil Governor, the fact that he was ill and unable to be on duty on account of illness, and that his claim is meritorious, or that a member of his family had the contagious disease above described during the period of his absence for which he claims compensation. If the period of absence because of illness of the employee himself or in his family shall exceed sixty days, he shall receive no compensation for the time so in excess of sixty days, and if the absence thus caused shall exceed six months, he shall be immediately separated from the service. The question of granting leaves of absence, both in section two and section three of Act Numbered Eighty, shall be first submitted to the Civil Service Board for its recommendation, and then forwarded to the head of the Executive Department in which the applicant is employed, for his final decision, except in respect to those Bureaus not under any Executive Department, in which cases the recommendations of the Civil Service Board shall be forwarded to the Civil Governor for his final decision."

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted November 11, 1902.

[No. 516.]

AN ACT authorizing the removal of prisoners from the provincial jail of Rizal to Bilibid Prison on account of the unhealthfulness and insecurity of the provincial jail of Rizal.

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

SECTION 1. In view of the unhealthful and insecure condition of the provincial jail of the Province of Rizal at Pasig, it shall be lawful, upon an order of the judge of the Court of First Instance for the Province of Rizal, spread upon the minutes of the Court, to remove all persons lawfully committed to the provincial jail at Pasig, to Bilibid Prison in Manila. They shall be so removed in the custody of any peace officers of the province or of the Insular Constabulary, and shall remain in Bilibid Prison until duly discharged by law, or until returned to Pasig by order of the court ordering their removal.

SEC. 2. Such order of removal may include both those who are serving sentences in the Pasig jail and those who, having had or waived preliminary examination, are awaiting trial; but the Warden of Bilibid Prison shall not be authorized to require labor from those

prisoners thus removed who have not been convicted and are only awaiting trial. The papers showing the lawful commitment of the prisoners thus removed, together with a certified copy of the order of removal, shall accompany the prisoners and be delivered to the Warden of Bilibid Prison.

SEC. 3. Proceedings to release on bail the prisoners removed under this Act who are committed for trial only, may be had in the town of Pasig, as formerly, and in case bail is offered and accepted, the prisoner shall be returned by order of the court to Pasig and there released. SEC. 4. There shall be paid out of the provincial treasury of the Province of Rizal to the Warden of Bilibid Prison a per diem amount to be agreed upon between the Warden and the provincial board of Rizal, and approved by the Civil Governor, for the support of each prisoner under this Act removed to Bilibid Prison. The expenses of transporting the prisoners and their guards to and from Bilibid Prison under this Act shall be paid out of the provincial treasury of Rizal.

SEC. 5. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 6. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, November 12, 1902.

[No. 517.]

AN ACT to provide against the danger of famine in the provinces of the Philippine

Archipelago.

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

SECTION 1. To provide against the danger of famine, due to the short crop for the coming year in rice and other food stuffs usually produced in the provinces of the Philippine Archipelago, it shall be the duty of all municipal presidents to call meetings of the people of their respective municipalities, to notify them of the impending danger of famine, and to urge them at once to take steps to secure the necessary seed and to plant quick-growing crops of corn, camotes, rice, or other food plants, whichever may furnish the most abundant crop in the particular locality, sufficient in quantity to produce the requisite food for the people of the municipality for the coming year.

SEC. 2. Any municipal president is authorized to allot to the citizens of his municipality such public land as there may be within the boundaries of the municipality at present unoccupied, for the planting of the seed and the raising of the crops provided for in this Act.

SEC. 3. The crops planted and gathered under this Act shall belong to the persons planting and gathering the same, even though they be planted upon the public land, and no rent for the public land thus used shall be chargeable against the persons so using same.

SEC. 4. In cases where it is impossible in the municipality or prov

ince to secure the proper seed, the municipal council shall call upon the provincial board to procure the needed seed through the Insular Purchasing Agent. The provincial board shall purchase the needed seed from the general funds of the province, and shall sell the same to the presidents of the municipalities whose councils have called for seed. The seed furnished by a provincial board to any municipality shall be receipted for by the municipal president and paid for out of the municipal funds by order of the municipal council. The seed shall then be sold to the residents of the municipality at the cost price thereof. If any person having land of his own, or tilling the public land, shall be known to be unable to pay for the seed, the municipal president may furnish him the seed without receiving the price thereof, in which case he shall collect an amount equal to the value of the seed furnished from the new crop, and shall sell the same and reimburse the municipal treasury with the proceeds.

SEC. 5. Each municipal president shall keep a record of the amount of seed furnished to the inhabitants of his municipality and the number of hectares planted by each inhabitant in accordance with the requirements of this Act, and it shall be his further duty to make monthly reports of his proceedings under this Act to the provincial

governor.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the provincial governor to see that the municipal presidents discharge their duties under this Act, and if they fail to do so to suspend them and bring them before the provincial board to answer to the charges of noncompliance therewith.

The provincial governor shall make monthly reports of the proceedings of the municipal presidents and his own proceedings under this Act to the Civil Governor.

SEC. 7. Any municipal president receiving seed from the provincial board under section four of this Act who shall appropriate it to his own use or shall fail to distribute it in accordance with the terms of this Act, or who shall knowingly permit or connive at the use of the seed for any other purpose than planting a new crop as in this Act provided, shall be held to be guilty of embezzlement, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding three years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the Civil Governor to issue a proclamation to the governors of the provinces, reciting the terms of this Act and directing them to order the municipal presidents in accordance herewith to call the people of their respective municipalities together and secure the action required by this Act.

SEC. 9. The said proclamation of the Civil Governor shall be printed in English and Spanish and in the principal dialects of the Islands, and shall be forwarded to the various provincial governors to be by them distributed among the municipalities of their respective provinces.

SEC. 10. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

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

Enacted, November 12, 1902.