liable for the amount on his official bond, and in any case where such officer or employee whose pay or salary is withheld under the provisions of this Act shall refuse or fail to sign proper receipts to the dis bursing officer for pay or salary due but withheld under the provisions of this Act, the disbursing officer may take credit in his account for any such sum paid for the benefit of such officer or employee, supporting such credit by a voucher reciting the order of the Civil Governor directing that such pay or salary be withheld, and the receipt of the officer of the United States Government authorized to receive the amount. SEC. 3. 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. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 912.] AN ACT appropriating four thousand two hundred pesos, Philippines currency, for the extension and completion of the wharf at Jolo and for the construction of a tramway upon the wharf and pier connected therewith. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The sum of four thousand two hundred pesos, Philippines currency, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the following purposes: (a) Two thousand seven hundred pesos to be utilized for the extension thirty-six feet further of the wharf recently built at Jolo. (b) One thousand five hundred pesos to be expended for the building and equipping of a narrow-gauge tramway from the sea end of said wharf to the custom house, including the purchase of materials necessary therefor. SEC. 2. The two thousand seven hundred pesos referred to in subsection (a) of section one hereof are hereby made available for use by the engineer of the United States Army, who shall be or has been detailed for this work by the Commanding General of the Department of Mindanao. The one thousand five hundred pesos referred to in subsection (b) of section one hereof are hereby made available for the use of the collector of customs at the port of Jolo for the purposes in this Act provided. SEC. 3. 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. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 913.] AN ACT authorizing the Insular Auditor to transfer to the general revenues in the Insular Treasury the sum of five thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty cents, United States currency, and two thousand and fortyfive dollars and seventy-one cents, Mexican currency, now standing on his books to the credit of the War Emergency Fund created by Act Numbered Four hundred and eighty-eight, and appropriating a like amount for the benefit of the Province of Batangas to be expended by said province in the construction of roads and bridges. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The Auditor for the Philippine Islands is hereby authorized and directed to transfer on the books of his office to the general revenues with which the Insular Treasurer is chargeable, or from appropriated to unappropriated moneys, the sum of five thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty cents, United States currency, and two thousand and forty-five dollars and seventy-one cents, Mexican currency, now standing on his books to the credit of the War Emergency Fund created by Act Numbered Four hundred and eighty-eight. SEC. 2. In lieu of said undrawn balance the sum of six thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-four cents, United States currency, is hereby appropriated for the benefit of the Province of Batangas, the same to be paid to the treasurer of said province by warrant upon his requisition therefor, and shall be withdrawn from the Insular Treasury in United States currency or in Philippines currency, at the option of the Insular Treasurer. SEC. 3. The sum appropriated in the preceding section shall be expended under the direction of the provincial board of the Province of Batangas in the construction of roads and bridges in said province, and shall be accounted for to the Insular Auditor in the same manner as other provincial funds. 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. 914.] AN ACT providing that the dispensing clerk of the civil sanitarium, Benguet, shall perform the duties of disbursing officer and property clerk. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The dispensing clerk of class nine authorized for the Civil Sanitarium, Benguet, by Act Numbered Seven hundred and fifty-seven, is hereby authorized and directed to assume the duties of disbursing officer and property clerk, without additional compensation, except that the cost of his bond shall be paid out of the Insular Treasury, and the provisions of Act Numbered Four hundred and twenty-nine, as amended, or any other Act, requiring the Attending Physician and Surgeon of the Civil Sanitarium, Benguet, to perform the duties of disbursing officer or property clerk, are hereby repealed. 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. 915.] AN ACT transferring the administration of mining grants and claims instituted prior to April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, from the Mining Bureau to the Bureau of Public Lands. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The records and archives of all existing mining claims of whatever class or description now in the custody and under the charge and official control of the Mining Bureau and pertaining to the so-called Spanish mining grants and mining claims of every kind instituted prior to April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, shall be, as quickly as practicable, inventoried and turned over to the Bureau of Public Lands and receipted for by the Chief of that Bureau. SEC. 2. The administration of such Spanish mining grants and mining claims of every kind instituted prior to April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and heretofore vested in and exercised by the Mining Bureau, is hereby transferred to and shall hereafter be vested in, and exercised by, the Bureau of Public Lands. SEC. 3. 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. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 916.] AN ACT reorganizing the Mining Bureau and prescribing the functions thereof. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The personnel of the Mining Bureau shall consist of a Chief of the Bureau, class one, who shall be appointed by the Civil Governor, by and with the consent of the Philippine Commission; and of two geologists, class three: Provided, That the Chief of the Bureau and the geologists shall be graduates of recognized schools of mines or shall have received degrees in mining, metallurgy, geology from reputable universities. ted SEC. 2. The Chief of the Mining Bureau shall have autheity to employ for temporary service such assistance from mining engiers, experts, and practical miners, or others, as the funds appropi for the field work of the Bureau shall warrant, such tempe employees to be exempt from the requirements and privileges of Civil Service, and such appointments and the compensations and allowances therefor to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior. SEC. 3. The Mining Bureau shall further consist of two field assistants, class six, who shall qualify in topographic surveying, and who may qualify in either mining engineering or metallurgy, or both, to be selected under the rules of the Civil Service Board; of a chief clerk and stenographer, class six; of a property clerk and custodian, class eight; of a record clerk and translator, Class C; of a draftsman, Class D; of a draftsman, Class F; and of such labor as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, the total compensation for which for office work shall not exceed seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum. SEC. 4. It shall be the function of said Bureau to make, facilitate, and encourage special studies of the mineral resources, mineral industries, and geology of the Philippine Islands; to collect statistics concerning the occurrence of the economically important minerals and the methods pursued in making their valuable constituents available for commercial use; to make collections of typical geological and mineralogical specimens, especially those of economic and commercial importance, such collections to constitute the museum of the Mining Bureau, subject, however, to transfer by executive order of the Civil Governor to any general museum established; to provide a library of books, reports, drawings, etc., bearing upon the mineral industries, the sciences of mineralogy and geology and the arts of mining and metallurgy, such library constituting the library of the Mining Bureau; to make a collection of models, drawings, and descriptions of mechanical appliances used in mining and metallurgical processes; to preserve and so maintain such collections and library as to make them available for reference and examination, and open to public inspection at reasonable hours; to maintain, in effect, a bureau of information concerning the mineral industries of the Philippine Islands; to make an annual report to the Secretary of the Interior setting forth the important results of the work of the Bureau, such special reports as may be called for by proper authority, and such bulletins concerning the statistics and technology of the mining industries, and of the geological and mineralogical and other field and office work of the Bureau, as may be approved by the Chief of the Bureau and ordered published by the Secretary of the Interior. SEC. 5. All orders, decrees, Acts, or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. 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. 7. This act shall take effect October fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three. Enacted, October 1, 1903. [No. 917.] AN ACT to amend section five of Act Numbered Seventy-four, establishing a Department of Public Instruction, as amended, by making the Province of Leyte and the Province of Samar separate school divisions. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section five of Act Numbered Seventy-four, establish ing a Department of Public Instruction, as amended by Acts Numbered Four hundred and seventy-seven, Five hundred and twenty-five, and Six hundred and seventy-two, is hereby further amended by striking from the phrase in said section, "Sixteenth Division, Leyte and Samar, two thousand four hundred dollars," the words "and Samar," making said phrase read, "Sixteenth Division, Leyte, two thousand four hundred dollars," and by striking from the phrase in said section, "Eighteenth Division, Mindanao and Joló (with the exception of Misamis and Surigao), two thousand five hundred dollars," the words, "Mindanao and Joló (with the exception of Misamis and Surigao)," and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Samar," making the phrase read, "Eighteenth Division, Samar, two thousand five hundred dollars." 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. 918.] AN ACT appropriating twenty-five thousand dollars, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the construction of a wagon road from Pasacao to Nueva Caceres, in the Province of Ambos Camarines. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of so much of the three-million-dollar Congressional relief fund as remains unappropriated in the Insular Treasury, for the purpose of constructing a wagon road from Pasacao to Nueva Caceres, in the Province of Ambos Camarines. The sum hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be disbursed by the provincial supervisor of Ambos Camarines, or by a duly bonded official of the Government to be designated by the Civil Governor. SEC. 2. The Civil Governor may direct the payment of such portions of the expenses for labor and material either in money or in rice as, in his discretion, may be deemed best for the people doing the labor or furnishing the material. SEC. 3. The Consulting Engineer to the Commission shall have general supervision of the work of construction. The provincial supervisor of Ambos Camarines shall have immediate charge of all the work of construction. He may appoint his assistants and fix their rates of compensation subject to the approval of the Consulting Engineer to the Commission. He shall make detailed monthly reports of the progress of the work herein authorized, including an itemized statement of the various expenditures made during each month and the purposes thereof, to the Consulting Engineer to the Commission, who shall forward the same to the Civil Governor through the Secretary of Commerce and Police. SEC. 4. The officers and employees provided for in section three of this Act shall not, necessarily, be subject to the provisions of the Civil Service Act and the Acts amendatory thereof; but employees |