practicable; and such inspector as summary court shall have power to administer oaths and to hear and determine such cases, and, when satisfied of the guilt of the accused, adjudge the punishment to be inflicted, which said punishment shall not exceed confinement at hard labor for one month and forfeiture of one month's pay for the first conviction, or confinement at hard labor for two months and forfeiture of two months' pay for the second conviction within six months: Provided, That where the accused is a noncommissioned officer or a first-class private, he may be sentenced to reduction to the grade of second-class private in addition thereto, and that where the accused has been convicted by summary court three times within a year he may be sentenced to be dishonorably discharged in addition to the penalties hereinbefore mentioned. No noncommissioned officer shall be confined, awaiting trial, with prisoners who are not also noncommissioned officers, nor at all unless such confinement be absolutely necessary as a measure of restraint, and no noncommissioned officer or first-class private shall be sentenced to confinement except when he is also sentenced to reduction to the grade of second-class private. No noncommissioned officer or first-class private reduced to the grade of second-class private by sentence of the summary court shall be again advanced within six months from the date of such sentence. Where an accused is sentenced to a forfeiture of pay, the sentence may provide for the deduction of the amount of the forfeiture in equal monthly installments, during a period of not exceeding six months after the date of the sentence.

Each summary court shall keep a record in which shall be entered all cases heard and determined and the action had thereon; and no sentence adjudged by any summary court for a first offense within six months shall be executed which exceeds the limit of punishment fixed for such offense in the following table:

Losing or spoiling accoutrements or cloth- | Twenty days' confinement at hard labor ing through neglect.

Absence without leave:
One hour or less..

For more than one to six hours, inclusive.

For more than six to twelve hours, inclusive.

and forfeiture of three dollars; for noncommissioned officer, reduction in addition thereto.

Forfeiture of fifty cents; corporal, one dollar; sergeant, one dollar and fifty cents; first sergeant or noncommissioned officer of higher grade, two dollars. Forfeiture of one dollar; corporal, one dollar and fifty cents; sergeant, two dollars; first sergeant or noncommissioned officer of higher grade, two dollars and fifty cents.

Forfeiture of one dollar and fifty cents; corporal, two dollars; sergeant, three dollars; first sergeant or noncommissioned officer of higher grade, three dollars and fifty cents.

For more than twelve to twenty-four Forfeiture of two dollars and fifty cents; hours, inclusive.

corporal, three dollars; sergeant, three dollars and fifty cents; first sergeant or noncommissioned officer of higher grade, five dollars.

For more than twenty-four to forty-eight | Forfeiture of three dollars and five days hours, inclusive.

Absence from extra or special duty..... Forfeiture of two dollars; corporal, two

dollars and fifty cents; sergeant, three dollars.

Absence from duty as company, general Forfeiture of five dollars.

Drunkenness at post or in quarters... ... ... ....

Forfeiture of one dollar and fifty cents for noncommissioned officer, reduction; and forfeiture of two dollars and fifty

cents.

Noisy or disorderly conduct in quarters. Forfeiture of two dollars; corporal, three dollars and fifty cents; sergeant, five dollars.

Drunk and disorderly in post or quarters.

Forfeiture of three dollars and fifty cents; for noncommissioned officer, reduction and forfeiture of five dollars.

Noncommissioned officer encouraging Reduction and forfeiture of two dollars gambling. and fifty cents.

Noncommissioned officer making false Reduction, forfeiture or four dollars, and report.

Breach of arrest in quarters...

ten days confinement at hard labor.

One month's confinement at hard labor and forfeiture of five dollars; for noncommissioned officer, reduction in addition thereto.

or until such sentence shall have been approved by the Chief or an Assistant Chief of Constabulary.

All fines imposed in accordance with this section shall be deposited with the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago, and shall constitute a special fund to be expended for the moral and material welfare of the enlisted Constabulary by a board appointed by the Chief of the Constabulary for that purpose: Provided, however, That all expenditures made by such board shall be audited as are other claims against the Insular Treasury.

SEC. 12. The "Manual for Courts Martial, and so forth," for use in the United States Army, published by the Secretary of War March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and one, in so far as it relates to procedure, forms of charges, previous convictions, records, reports, sentences and approvals, shall be followed by constabulary summary courts, where the same shall be applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 13. The Chief or any assistant chief of Constabulary or senior Constabulary inspector of a province may arrest and confine in his quarters and deprive of his arms any subordinate officer of his command charged with crime or with conduct unbecoming a gentleman, or to the prejudice of good order and discipline, for not exceeding ten days pending investigation of the charge and action thereon. An enlisted man of the Constabulary charged with crime or with being guilty of any offense under this Act may be arrested and confined by any superior authority in the Constabulary until delivered to the proper provincial or judicial officials where the offense is cognizable by the Courts of First Instance, or until tried, where the offense is punishable by Constabulary summary court, or until released by proper authority. Such arrest and confinement shall be without warrant.

SEC. 14. The following amounts shall be deducted and retained from the monthly pay of members of the Constabulary:

From the monthly pay of each captain and inspector, one dollar. From the monthly pay of each first or second lieutenant and inspector, seventy-five cents.

From the monthly pay of each third lieutenant and inspector, or of each sub-inspector, fifty cents.

From the monthly pay of each enlisted man, ten cents.

Such deductions and retentions shall be noted on the payroll and the Constabulary officer by whom any member of the Constabulary is paid, shall pay such member only the net amount due, the same being his total pay less such retentions, deductions and forfeitures, which may have been made pursuant to the provisions of this Act. Each Constabulary officer shall keep a record in duplicate of all such deductions and retentions, showing the amount thereof and the name of the member of the Constabulary, and shall forward one copy to the Chief of Constabulary and the other copy to the Auditor for the Archipelago at the end of each month. The amount of these deductions and retentions shall be deposited in the Insular Treasury by settlement warrant pursuant to certification of the auditor as the accounts in which such deductions and retentions have been made are audited and settled. These deposits with the Insular Treasurer shall constitute a special fund and shall not be considered general revenues of the Islands. The Chief of Constabulary is hereby authorized to recommend to the Civil Governor the disposition of these funds, and upon approval of the Civil Governor they may be expended for the benefit of the widows and orphans of members of the Constabulary who have lost or shall lose their lives in line of duty, and for members of the Constabulary who may have been incapacitated to gain a livelihood by reason of wounds or other causes due to the service, under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Civil Governor.

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 twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 16. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, February 6, 1903.

[No. 620.]

AN ACT returning the sum of eight thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars and twelve cents, local currency, to Bernardino Monreal, of Sorsogon.

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

SECTION 1. Whereas the sum of eight thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars and twelve cents, local currency, belonging to Bernardino Monreal, was seized in January, nineteen hundred and one, by Colonel Walter Howe, Forty-Seventh Infantry, United States Volunteers, on the ground that said Bernardino Monreal was a collector for the insurgents, and that these were insurgent funds; and

Whereas it is clearly established that these funds were the personal property of Bernardino Monreal:

The sum of eight thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars and twelve cents, local currency, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to Bernardino Monreal, of Sorsogon, Sorsogon, as reimbursement for the same amount of money seized from him as hereinbefore stated.

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, February 6, 1903.

[No. 621.]

AN ACT authorizing the employment of an Inspector of Buildings in the Department of Engineering and Public Works in the City of Manila.

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

SECTION 1. The Municipal Board of the City of Manila is hereby authorized to employ an additional engineer to be known as Inspector of Buildings, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum. The salary of such Inspector of Buildings for the second half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three is hereby made a proper charge against the appropriation for "Salaries and wages, Department of Engineering and Public Works, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and three," made in Act Numbered Five hundred and ninety-five.

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, February 6, 1903.

[No. 622.]

AN ACT authorizing the provincial government of Albay to establish a provincial subtreasury office at Virac, Island of Catanduanes.

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

SECTION 1. The provincial government of the Province of Albay is hereby authorized to establish permanently a suboffice of the provincial treasury of the Province of Albay, at Virac, on the Island of Catanduanes, and to provide, by construction or purchase or renting, a suitable office for such subtreasury.

SEC. 2. The public good requiring a 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, February 6, 1903.

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