Geodetic Survey by contract let to the lowest bidder, after due advertisement, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police. BUREAU OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Public works, Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings: For the alteration, construction, or improvement of the following-named public buildings and grounds. Board of Health for the Philippine Islands: Construction of stables for eight horses and carromata shed; septic tanks and drainage system for cholera hospital, women's ward, leper hospital, morgue, and serum institute; three wards and nurses' quarters at contagious-diseases hospital; new cholera, plague, and smallpox hospitals and administration building; plumbing in main building and water supply for new hospital; and crematory. Bureau of Agriculture: Construction of college building, Occidental Negros. Bureau of Coast Guard and Transportation: Construction of two wooden and brick warehouses; repairs to a building twenty by one hundred feet; repairs to watchman's building; repairs to machine shop, including new roof, trusses, plates, and so forth, and preparation for shafting, and so forth; new water and electric mains across canal and general water system for Engineer Island and ships (except plumbing in building), hawser posts, and so forth. Bureau of Customs and Immigration: Construction of iron fence inclosing entire premises; leveling sidewalks and resetting tracks, and so forth; erection of signal masts, crow's nest, and fittings for Ardois signal system; painting interior and exterior of old building to match new addition; completion of main building, including steel rolling shutters, lightning rods, electric wiring and fixtures; standpipes and hose connections for new and old buildings; electric light and telephone wiring; refitting bodegas and offices in old building after furniture is removed to new addition. Bureau of Government Laboratories: Construction of new Government Laboratory building; equipment for new Government Laboratory building; six hundred and fifty meters of filling for emergency use on Laboratory site to permit continuous work around walls of building during rainy season. Bureau of the Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant: Construction of storage shed; extension to stables. Bureau of the Insular Purchasing Agent: Construction of stables at San Lazaro; wagon sheds at San Lazaro; repair shops at San Lazaro; mess rooms and quarters at San Lazaro; twelve medium-sized coal sheds; and one large coal shed. Bureau of Prisons: Construction of workshop at Bilibid Prison; construction of warehouse at Bilibid Prison. Bureau of Public Printing. Construction of paper warehouse and electric elevator. Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings: Construction of roof of building on Calle Anloague. In all, for public works, Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings, three hundred and forty-eight thousand three hundred and twelve dollars: Provided, That the amounts to be expended for the various purposes above mentioned, respectively, shall be allotted by resolution of the Commission to be certified to the Auditor, and the Chief of the Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings shall be limited in his expenditure for each item in accordance with said allotment. PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF NUEVA VIZCAYA. For the construction of a provincial government building to be used as offices for the provincial officials, headquarters of Constabulary, and for provincial jail, two thousand five hundred dollars. CHIEF ENGINEER, DIVISION OF THE PHILIPPINES. For completion of the wharf at Calbayog, Samar, fifteen thousand dollars. SEC. 2. All balances remaining unexpended when any public works or permanent improvements appropriated for by this Act are completed shall be returned at once to the Insular Treasury and shall not be available for withdrawal or disbursement thereafter, but shall be carried to the general revenues of the Islands. SEC. 3. The provisions of the first paragraph of section three of Act Numbered Eight hundred and seven, providing the manner in which withdrawals of moneys appropriated under said Act shall be made in other than United States currency or Philippines currency, are hereby made applicable to the withdrawal of moneys appropriated under this Act. SEC. 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this appropriation 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. 5. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 832.] AN ACT allowing to E. B. Bryan fifty-four days' leave of absence and appropriating the sum of one thousand and fifty dollars, in money of the United States, to be paid to said E. B. Bryan in lieu of the leave so allowed in order that his successor as general superintendent of education may be appointed without unnecessary delay. Whereas the Civil Governor has accepted the resignation of E. B. Bryan, as General Superintendent of Education, to take effect on August thirteenth, nineteen hundred and three; and Whereas the said E. B. Bryan has rendered faithful, efficient, and continuous service to the Government since the first day of July, nineteen hundred and one, without vacation during that period; and Whereas the public good demands the appointment of a successor to the said E. B. Bryan as soon as possible after his resignation takes effect instead of at the termination of any leave which may be allowed to him: Now, therefore, By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The sum of one thousand and fifty dollars, in money of the United States, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the said E. B. Bryan, in lieu of fifty-four days' leave of absence hereby allowed to him for the full period of his service with the Philippine Government as computed under Act Numbered Eighty. 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. [No. 833.] AN ACT amending Act Numbered Seven hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act providing for the organization and government of the Moro Province." By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section seven of an Act entitled "An Act providing for the organization and government of the Moro Province" is hereby amended by striking out the clause between the semicolons in the twentieth and twenty-seventh lines of said section and substituting therefor the following: "He shall, on or before the tenth day of each month, render an account of the transactions of his office for the preceding month to the legislative council, hereinafter created, who, by committee, shall examine such accounts and count the cash and if said accounts are found correct shall so certify on the face of the accounts. He shall forward one copy of each monthly account-current to the Insular Treasurer and one copy of the same to the Insular Auditor, the latter accompanied by supporting vouchers, receipts, and abstracts." SEC. 2. Said Act is also hereby amended by striking out the following sentence in section eighteen: "He shall render a quarterly account of his collections and disbursements to the provincial treasurer, and shall, as he may be ordered by the provincial treasurer, retain custody of the money which he has collected or forward same or any part thereof to the provincial treasurer," and substituting therefor: "He shall within ten days after the close of each month render accounts-current in triplicate to the provincial treasurer, showing all collections and disbursements made by him during the preceding month as well as all the transfers of money from or to him. Within ten days after receipt of same the provincial treasurer shall forward to the Insular Treasurer a copy of the account-current. At the same time one copy of the account-current, supported by proper vouchers, receipts, and certified copy of the acts and resolutions of the legislative council, shall be forwarded by the provincial treasurer to the Insular Auditor, and one. copy shall be retained in the office of the provincial treasurer. Before forwarding to the Auditor an account of a district treasurer, the provincial treasurer shall give the same an administrative examination, transmitting a copy of the result of such examination, for the information of the Insular Auditor, with the account so transmitted. The district treasurer shall, as he may be ordered by the provincial treasurer, retain custody of the money which he has collected or forward the same, or any part thereof, to the provincial treasury. WAR 1903-VOL 8- -42 SEC. 3. All sums appropriated by the Insular Government for the expense of the collection of customs revenues in the Moro Province shall be refunded to the Insular Treasury from the gross amount of the customs receipts collected in said province, on or before the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and four, and each succeeding year. SEC. 4. 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. 5. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 834.] AN ACT to amend Act Numbered Eight hundred and seventeen, providing for the suppression of the locust pest, by excepting from its operation certain public servants and employees of common carriers. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Nothing in Act Numbered Eight hundred and seventeen, entitled "An Act declaring that the presence of locusts in various provinces of the Islands so threatens the food supply for the coming year as to present a public emergency requiring radical action, and authorizing and providing for the appointment of a board in each province with full powers to call upon all able-bodied inhabitants thereof to take united action to suppress the pest, and for other purposes," shall require the services in the suppression of the locust pest of officers or men of the Army or Navy of the United States, civil employees of the United States Government, officers or employees of the Insular Government, or the officers or servants of companies or individuals engaged in the business of common carriers on sea or land, or priests, ministers of the Gospel, physicians, practicantes, druggists or practicantes de farmacia actually engaged in business, or lawyers when actually engaged in court proceedings. The locust board is hereby authorized to make further exemption of such provincial and municipal officers as the public interests may require. 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. [No. 835.] AN ACT appropriating the sum of two hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars for the purpose of continuing the construction of the Benguet road. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The following sums, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of continuing the construction of the Benguet road. For salaries and wages, including the unpaid portion of the salary of N. M. Holmes, chief engineer, from August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and one, to July first, nineteen hundred and three, at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum; and compensation for services rendered in securing laborers; one hundred and forty thousand dollars. For subsistence of employees, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the purchase of materials and supplies, including medicines, medical supplies, and surgical instruments, twenty thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. For transportation of officials, employees, and supplies, including the purchase of means of transportation and its maintenance, and the sum of two hundred and seventy-five dollars to reimburse Major L. W. V. Kennon, United States Army, engineer in charge, for traveling expenses and subsistence when absent from his station on official business, forty thousand three hundred dollars. In all, for the purposes of this Act, two hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars, in currency of the United States. SEC. 2. The provisions of the first paragraph of section three of Act Numbered Eight hundred and seven, providing the manner in which withdrawals of moneys, appropriated under said Act shall be made in other than United States currency or Philippine currency, are hereby made applicable to the withdrawal of moneys appropriated under this Act. SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this appropriation 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. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 836.] AN ACT to amend Act Numbered Six hundred and thirty-three, entitled "An Act consolidating the offices of provincial treasurer and provincial supervisor of the Province of Isabela. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Act Numbered Six hundred and thirty-three, entitled "An Act consolidating the offices of provisional treasurer and pro |