SEC. 2. The Insular Collector of Customs shall make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the efficient execution of this Act, prescribing the form of certificates of registration required hereby, and making such provisions that certificates may be procured in localities convenient to the applicants.

SEC. 3. Each certificate of registration shall contain the name, age, date, and place of birth, registry of birth, if any, local residence, occupation, and photograph of the person therein described, and such other data in respect to him as shall be prescribed by the Insular Collector of Customs, and shall be issued by the proper officer upon payment to him of a fee of fifty cents, United States currency, said fee to be accompanied by a true photograph of the applicant in triplicate to the satisfaction of such officer.

SEC. 4. Any Chinese laborer within the limits of the Philippine Islands who shall neglect, fail, or refuse to obtain within the time prescribed by section four of the Act of Congress of the United States, referred to in section one of this Act, the certificate of registration by this Act provided to be issued, and who shall be found within the Philippine Islands without such certificate of registration after such time has elapsed, may be arrested upon warrant issued by the Court of First Instance of the province or by the justice's court of the municipality returnable before said Court of First Instance, by any customs official, police, Constabulary, or other peace officer of the Philippine Islands and brought before any judge of a Court of First Instance in the Islands, whose duty it shall be to order that such Chinese laborer be deported from the Philippine Islands, either to China or the country from whence he came unless he shall affirmatively establish clearly and to the satisfaction of such judge, by at least one credible witness other than Chinese, that although lawfully in the Philippine Islands at and ever since the passage of this Act he has been unable by reason of accident, sickness, or other unavoidable cause to procure the certificate within the time prescribed by law, in which case the court shall order and adjudge that he procure the proper certificate within a reasonable time and such Chinese laborer shall bear and pay the costs of the proceeding: Provided, however, That any Chinese laborer failing for any reason to secure the certificate required under this law within two years from the date of its passage shall be deported from the Islands. If it appears that such Chinese laborer had procured a certificate in due time but that the same has been lost or destroyed, he shall be allowed a reasonable time to procure a duplicate from the Insular Collector of Customs or from the officer granting the original certificate, and upon the production of such duplicate such Chinese laborer shall be discharged from custody upon payment of costs.

Any Chinese person having procured a certificate of registration, and the same having been lost or destroyed, shall have a right to procure a duplicate thereof under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Insular Collector of Customs upon the payment of double the fee exacted for the original certificate and the presentation of his true photograph in triplicate.

No Chinese person heretofore convicted in any court of the States or Territories of the United States or the Philipine Islands of a felony shall be permitted to register under the provisions of this Act without special authority from the Civil Governor.

SEC. 5. Every Chinese person having a right to be and remain in

the Philippine Islands shall obtain the certificate of registration specified in section three of this Act as evidence of such right and shall pay the fee and furnish his photograph in triplicate as in said section prescribed; and every Chinese person found without such certificate within the Philippine Islands after the expiration of the time limited by law for registration shall be presumed, in the absence of satisfactory proof to the contrary, to be a Chinese laborer and shall be subject to deportation as provided in section four of this Act. Every Chinese person shall on demand of any customs official, police, constabulary, or other peace officer exhibit his certificate, and on his refusal to do so may be arrested and tried as provided in section four of this Act. SEC. 6. Any person who shall knowingly and falsely alter or substitute any name for the name written in any certificate of registration or forge such certificate, or knowingly utter any forged or fraudulent certificate, or falsely personate the person to whom said certificate was originally issued, or who shall falsely present any such certificate, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars and imprisoned for a term not to exceed five years.

SEC. 7. Every Chinese person who may be entitled to come into the Philippine Islands shall upon landing, if he so requests, be given by the collector of customs of the port at which he lands a certificate containing his name, age, photograph, occupation, place of last residence, the date on which he landed, and such other data in respect to him as may be prescribed by the Insular Collector of Customs, and such certificate shall be issued upon payment to the proper officer of fifty cents, United States currency, accompanied by a true photograph of the applicant in triplicate to the satisfaction of such officer.

SEC. 8. Each certificate issued under this Act shall be made out in triplicate and to each of the triplicate copies shall be attached a true photograph of the person to whom issued. One of such triplicate certificates shall be delivered to the applicant, one filed in the office of the registrar of Chinese for the district within which the application is made, and the third transmitted to the Insular Collector of Customs for permanent record and file.

SEC. 9. The Collector of Customs for the Philippine Archipelago is hereby authorized to deputize, as registrar or deputy registrar of Chinese in each organized province of the Civil Government, any collector or deputy collector of customs or treasurer of the province, and the officers so deputized shall give the necessary assistance under the direction of the Insular Collector of Customs in the execution of this Act.

SEC. 10. In unorganized provinces the Insular Collector of Customs is authorized to designate, where available, any officer or qualified employee in the Customs Service for duty as registrar or deputy registrar of Chinese, and in case none such is available, then by and with the consent of the commanding officer of the Division of the Philippines he is authorized to designate an officer of the United States Army to serve as registrar of Chinese.

SEC. 11. Registrars and deputy registrars of Chinese, in addition to their compensation as officials or employees of the Civil Government or officers of the United States Army, shall receive not to exceed the sum of seventy-five dollars, United States currency, per month, and their actual and necessary traveling expenses, not to exceed three dollars, United States currency, per day, íncurred under orders of the Insular

Collector and by reason of their being engaged in the work prescribed in this Act.

SEC. 12. The word "laborer" or "laborers" wherever used in this Act shall be construed to mean both skilled and unskilled manual laborers, including Chinese laundrymen and Chinese employed in mining, fishing, huckstering, peddling, or taking, drying, or otherwise preserving shell or other fish for home consumption or exportation.

The term "merchant" as employed in this Act signifies a person engaged in buying and selling merchandise at a fixed place of business, which business is conducted in his name, and who during the time he claims to be engaged as a merchant does not engage in the performance of any manual labor except such as is necessary in the conduct of his business as such merchant. The definition of "laborer" and "merchant" set out in this section shall receive the same construction as that given to it by the Federal Courts of the United States and the rulings and regulations of the Treasury Department of the United States.

SEC. 13. For the purposes of this Act the following temporary employees, or so many thereof as may be necessary, are hereby authorized in the office of the Collector of Customs for the Philippine Archipelago: Six registration clerks and two Chinese translators of class nine and two stenographers and typewriters of class eight.

SEC. 14. The sum of forty thousand dollars, United States currency, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the salaries and expenses of registrars and deputy registrars and necessary clerical assistance, interpreting, translating, printing, advertising, traveling, transportation, stationery, and such other expenses as may be incurred in connection with this registration.

SEC. 15. It being impossible to complete the registration herein provided for within one year from the passage of the Act of Congress approved April twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and two, the time for such registration is, pursuant to authority granted by section four of said Act, hereby extended for a period of six months to date from April twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and three.

SEC. 16. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, March 27, 1903.

[No. 703.]

AN ACT conferring a franchise upon the Manila Railway Company, Limited, to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad from a point on the present Manila and Dagupan Railroad one and five-hundred-thousandths kilometers from what is known at the present time as the terminus of said railroad in the city of Manila, to Antipolo, in the province of Rizal, an estimated distance of thirty-two kilometers, and to construct, maintain, and operate a spur or branch of said railroad from its crossing of the River San Juan to a point on the River Pasig opposite the municipality of San Pedro Macati, in the Province of Rizal, an estimated distance of three kilometers.

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

SECTION 1. The Manila Railway Company, Limited, an English corporation, which under a Spanish concession constructed, and is

now operating the Manila and Dagupan Railroad, is hereby authorized to construct from a point on the present Manila and Dagupan Railroad one and five-hundred-thousandths kilometers from what is known at the present time as the terminus of said railroad in the city of Manila, a railroad in an easterly direction, to Antipolo, in the Province of Rizal, an estimated distance of thirty-two kilometers, and to construct a spur or branch of said railroad from its crossing of the River San Juan to a point on the River Pasig opposite the municipality of San Pedro Macati, in the Province of Rizal, an estimated distance of three kilometers.

SEC. 2. The Manila terminus of the railroad, the construction of which is authorized in the preceding section, shall be the present central station of the Manila and Dagupan Railroad at Tutuban, the junction with the existing line of said railroad being at a point one and five-hundred-thousandths kilometers from what is at present known as the terminus of the said Manila and Dagupan Railroad in the city of Manila. From this point the railway line shall run easterly, passing north of the district of Sampaloc, through the district of Pandacan, passing near the present race course, commonly called the "Santa Mesa Race Track;" crossing by suitable bridge the River San Juan, passing between the municipalities of San Felipe Neri and San Juan del Monte, following a northeasterly course by tangents and curves bending easterly and southeasterly to the barrio of San Isidro; crossing by suitable bridge the River Mariquina to the municipality of Mariquina; running thence southeastly to the municipality of Cainta; bending thence easterly, crossing by suitable bridges the Rivers Cutcut and Cay-ticlin to the municipality of Taytay; and running thence northeasterly, by tangents and curves, to Antipolo.

The spur or branch of said road shall begin at a point near the eastern end of its crossing of the River San Juan, bending in a southeasterly direction to the River Pasig, run thence along and up said river to a point on the same opposite the municipality of San Pedro Macati. The grantee of the franchise shall be allowed in the route described to make the variations in location which a detailed study of the ground may show to be necessary to avoid floods or heavy cutting of bank, and to allow for lessening of curvature, reduction of gradient, or the benefiting of the railroad. If, after completed survey and detailed study of the route of said railway hereinbefore described, it shall appear to the grantee company more advantageous, the railway line. may pass, continuing from the terminus of the spur or branch of said railroad herein before authorized to be constructed, at a point on the River Pasig opposite the municipality of San Pedro Macati, easterly along and up the River Pasig, crossing by necessary bridges the River Mariquina at a point above the municipality of Pasig to Cainta, and continue thence to Antipolo as hereinbefore described. In the event of the acceptance of the last-described route the grantee company shall construct a spur or branch of said railroad connecting the municipalities of Cainta and Mariquina, along the route herein before described for said line between said points: Provided, however, That until such time as the route from Taytay to Antipolo can be properly surveyed and staked, the municipality of Taytay is denominated as the provisional terminus of said railroad.

SEC. 3. The maximum grade and minimum curve to be employed in the construction shall be two per cent and two hundred meters radius,

respectively. The grade on curves shall be so compensated that the maximum grade on curves of minimum radius shall not exceed one per

cent.

SEC. 4. The grantee shall construct and maintain stations in the district of Sampaloc, in the division of the district of Pandacan commonly known as Santa Mesa, and in the municipalities of San Felipe Neri, San Juan del Monte, Mariquina, Cainta, Taytay, and Antipolo, and shall also construct and maintain a freight depot on the River Pasig at the terminus of the spur or branch hereinbefore authorized to be constructed. At Antipolo, and at Taytay for such period as the same is provisional terminus of said railroad, the grantee, in addition to station houses shall construct locomotive sheds with necessary turn-tables, water service, and cranes, in the situation which shall be most suitable for railroad purposes.

SEC. 5. All material employed in the construction of the line shall be of good class and quality adaptable to the conditions of the country. The rails shall be of steel of a weight not less than sixty-five pounds per yard, and shall be thirty feet long. Two thousand one hundred and twelve cross-ties, six feet by eight inches by five inches, of native hard wood, shall be employed per mile of track. In the case of its not being possible to obtain the number required from the forests of the Archipelago with the necessary despatch, due to want of proper machinery and insufficient labor, Australian hard woods, puriog, maire, ironbark, karri, and kauri, such as used on the Australian Government railways, shall be employed.

SEC. 6. The railway shall be a single line of three feet and six inches gauge (that is, the distance between the inner surfaces of the rails shall be three feet and six inches), sidings and loops necessary for the proper working of the line being provided for passing the trains at each station. The width of banks and cuttings shall be that necessary to carry the track.

SEC. 7. All materials employed in the construction of buildings shall be of good class and quality. Roofing shall be of galvanized iron. Bridges shall be constructed of native hard wood or foreign timber, to be replaced by steel and masonry when the development of traffic shall justify the outlay.

SEC. 8. The grantee shall acquire for the construction of the railroad a strip of land thirty meters in width, except in such places where greater width is required for stations, buildings, embankments, cuts and borrow pits, quarries, and such additional lands as may be required for diversions of water, roads or highways, drainage of swamp lands, dikes and other works to protect the tracks from floods and freshets, as well as for yards, shops, wharves, platforms, storehouses, turn-outs, switches, or for any other purposes necessary and proper to the railroad. In the case when lands necessary for the proper construction of the line can not be obtained by free arrangement with the owners, the grantee shall have the right to expropriate the same in the manner established by law.

SEC. 9. Before commencing work on any one section or district of the line the grantee shall file with the Consulting Engineer to the Commission a map or plan and profile thereof showing the course and direction, accompanied by an explanatory statement as to the route and general conditions of said section or district of the proposed railroad. On approval of said plan and profile two copies shall be drawn