or position under civil-service rules as he may elect, and that if certified for appointment by the Civil Service Board and appointed from such certification to any office or post in the civil service at any time within one year after his return, he will accept such appointment and faithfully perform the duties of the office or post to which he is appointed, for the salary fixed by competent authority and for a period of time equal to that spent by him in the United States at the expense of the Government, unless sooner separated from the service by competent authority. SEC. 4. The Civil Governor, by and with the approval of the Commission, may appoint a suitable agent to receive Government students in the United States and to arrange for their transportation to the institutions of learning to which such students shall have been assigned, to make all necessary arrangements for the entrance of such students into said institutions and for their care, protection, and welfare while students therein, and to perform such other duties as may be ordered by the General Superintendent of Education. The agent is hereby placed under the supervision of the Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs at Washington, to whom he shall make quarterly reports of the health, welfare, and progress of each student. He shall also send duplicates of such reports to the General Superintendent of Education. Such agent so appointed shall receive a compensation not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars, in money of the United States, per annum, and his necessary traveling expenses while engaged in the performance of the duties required by this section. SEC. 5. The cost of education and maintenance of said students in the United States, not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars, in money of the United States, per student per annum, and the actual and necessary traveling expenses of said students to the educational institutions in the United States to which they have have been assigned and their actual and necessary traveling expenses from such educational institution to Manila, Philippine Islands, upon the completion of their studies in conformity with this Act and their agreement, shall be paid by the Government of the Philippine Islands. SEC. 6. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventy-two thousand dollars, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Funds appropriated for the purposes of this Act for expenditure in the United States shall be disbursed by the Disburing Officer of Insular Funds, Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Department, Washington, District of Columbia, on vouchers properly signed and duly presented. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, August 26, 1903. [No. 855.] AN ACT providing for the establishment of local civil government for the nonChristian tribes in the Province of Ilocos Norte. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Whereas the non-Christian tribes in the Province of Ilocos Norte have not progressed sufficiently in civilization to make it practicable to bring them under any form of municipal government, the provincial governor is authorized, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, in dealing with those non-Christian tribes to appoint officers from among them, to fix their designation and badges of office, and to prescribe their powers and duties: Provided, That the powers and duties thus prescribed shall not be in excess of those conferred upon township officers by Act Numbered Three hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act providing for the establishment of local civil governments in the townships and settlements of Nueva Vizcaya." SEC. 2. Subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the provincial governor is further authorized, when he deems such a course necessary in the interest of law and order, to direct members of such tribes to take up their habitations on sites on unoccupied public land to be selected by him and approved by the provincial board. Members of such tribes who refuse to comply with such directions shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned for a period not exceeding sixty days. SEC. 3. The constant aim of the governor shall be to aid the nonChristian tribes of his province to acquire the knowledge and experience necessary for successful local popular government, and his supervision and control over them shall be exercised to this end, and to the end that law and order and individual freedom shall be maintained. SEC. 4. When in the opinion of the provincial board of Ilocos Norte any settlement of non-Christian tribes has advanced sufficiently to make such a course practicable, it may be organized under the provisions of sections one to sixty-seven, inclusive, of Act Numbered Three hundred and eighty-seven, as a township, and the geographical limits of such township shall be fixed by the provincial board. 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. [No. 856.] AN ACT authorizing any officer of the United States Army designated by the commanding general of the Division of the Philippines for such purpose to appear as attorney before any court in the Philippine Islands in official matters in which the United States has an interest. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Any officer of the United States Army designated by the commanding general of the Division of the Philippines for such purpose shall have the right to appear as attorney before any court in the Philippine Islands in all cases in which the United States Government shall have an interest direct or indirect. 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, August 27, 1903. [No. 857.] AN ACT authorizing the payment of salaries, wages, and subsistence of so-called volunteers in the suppression of brigandage in the Philippine Islands. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Payment is hereby authorized, out of the funds appropriated under the heading "Pay of Philippines Constabulary, nineteen hundred and three," of salaries and wages of the so-called volunteers in the suppression of brigandage in the Philippine Islands, and payment for subsistence of such volunteers is authorized out of the funds appropriated under the heading "Transportation, Philippines Constabulary, nineteen hundred and three." 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 and shall be considered as covering employment of such volunteers during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three. Enacted, August 27, 1903. [No. 858.] AN ACT appropriating the sum of ten thousand and twenty-one dollars and twenty-three cents, local currency, from the fund now in the Insular Treasury known as special deposit numbered twenty-nine," for deposit in the provincial treasury of Sorsogon, to be expended by said province in the construction of a high school or secondary school building. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The sum of ten thousand and twenty-one dollars and twenty-three cents, local currency, is hereby appropriated, out of the fund now in the Insular Treasury known as "special deposit numbered twenty-nine," for deposit in the provincial treasury of the Province of Sorsogon, to be expended under the supervision of the provincial board of said province, with such other funds as the provincial board may be able to devote to the purpose, in the construction of a high school or secondary school building. The amount herein appropriated shall be paid to the provincial treasurer of the Province of Sorsogon, and receipted for by him and shall be by him disbursed upon orders of the provincial board as in other cases. 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, August 27, 1903. [No. 859.] AN ACT amending section five of Act Numbered Six hundred and twenty-four, by providing for the payment of fees for recording declarations of location of mining claims and affidavits accompanying the same direct to the provincial treasurers instead of to the mining recorders in provinces organized under the provincial government act. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section five of Act Numbered Six hundred and twentyfour, entitled "An Act prescribing regulations governing the location and manner of recording mining claims, and the amount of work necessary to hold possession of a mining claim, under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled 'An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes,"" is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 5. There shall be paid to the provincial treasurer, or in the Moro Province to the district treasurer of the proper district, a fee of two Philippine pesos for each declaration of location of a mining claim and for each affidavit accompanying such declaration filed for record, and on the presentation of the receipt of the provincial or district treasurer the said declaration and affidavit shall be recorded by the mining recorder, providing all requirements of the law before recording shall have been complied with. These fees shall be accounted for as other collections of the officers receiving them and deposited for the credit of the proper province or district, in accordance with section six of Act Numbered Six hundred and twenty-four." 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. 860.] AN ACT appropriating the sum of six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, in money of the United States, to pay the salary of a third deputy clerk of the Supreme Court for the period from September first to December thirtyfirst, nineteen hundred and three. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, in money of the United WAR 1903-VOL 8- -43 States, to pay the salary of a third deputy clerk of the Supreme Court, already authorized, during the period from September first to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and three. 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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 861.] AN ACT authorizing the provincial treasurer of the Province of Iloilo to pay the expenses incurred in the hire of a steam launch for the provincial governor of said province while on a visit to the municipality of Nueva Valencia (Guimaras) during the month of January, nineteen hundred and three, on official business. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The provincial treasurer of the Province of Iloilo is hereby authorized to expend from provincial funds the sum of forty dollars, Mexican currency, in the reimbursement to Martin Delgado, provincial governor of said province, of the actual expenses incurred by him in the hire of a steam launch while on a visit to the municipality of Nueva Valencia (Guimaras) during the month of January, nineteen hundred and three, on official business in the interest of said province, anything in Act Numbered One hundred and thirteen, limiting the traveling expenses of provincial officers of the Province of Iloilo, to the contrary notwithstanding. 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. 862.] AN ACT to authorize the continuance in office of certain officers and employees of the Census Bureau for the purpose of directing the preparation of the census report contemplated by Act Numbered Four hundred and sixty-seven. Whereas the work of collecting information in the Philippine Islands for census purposes, as contemplated by Act Numbered Four hundred and sixty-seven, as amended, has been practically completed: Therefore, By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The services of the present Director of the Census in the compilation and tabulation of the census returns and the preparation of the report of the census shall be continued in Washington upon the same terms as those upon which he has served in the Philip |