one engineer class nine, six captains class nine, three linemen class ten, two lieutenants Class A, seventeen drivers Class A, four lieutenants Class D, four engineers Class D, three drivers Class J, thirty pipemen at one hundred and eighty dollars per annum, eleven truckmen at one hundred and eighty dollars per annum each, thirteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars.

Salaries and wages, Fire Department, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and two: Chief at three thousand dollars per annum from December twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one, to March first, nineteen hundred and two, and one clerk class nine, from June sixteenth to thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, eight hundred dollars.

Equipment, Fire Department, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and three: For purchase of fire apparatus and equipment for the same, equipment for firemen and fire stations, repairs to and maintenance of apparatus, thirty-nine thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and eighty cents.

Contingent expenses, Fire Department, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and three: For contingent expenses, including office supplies, forage for horses, construction of fire and police telegraph system, including labor, purchase of tools, materials, and other expenses incidental to the same, not to exceed ten thousand dollars, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars.

Salaries and wages, Law Department, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and three: City Attorney at three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, Assistant City Attorney at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, Prosecuting Attorney at four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, First Assistant Prosecuting Attorney at three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, Second Assistant Prosecuting Attorney at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, Third Assistant Prosecuting Attorney at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, Fourth Assistant Prosecuting Attorney at two thousand dollars per annum, two judges of municipal courts at three thousand dollars per annum each, Sheriff at three thousand dollars per annum, two deputy sheriffs at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each, two deputy sheriffs at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each, two deputy sheriffs at two hundred and forty dollars per annum each, two deputy sheriffs at one hundred and eighty dollars per annum each, two justices of the peace at one thousand dollars per annum each, two clerks, municipal courts, at one thousand dollars per annum each, two deputy clerks, municipal courts, at one thousand per annum each, two deputy clerks, municipal courts, at six hundred dollars per annum each, two clerks of justice of the peace courts at three hundred dollars per annum each, two clerks of justice of the peace courts at one hundred and twenty dollars per annum each, three employees class six, one employee at one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, four employees class eight, six employees class nine, two employees Class A, one employee Class C, one employee Class D, two employees Class J, eleven employees at one hundred and twenty dollars per annum each, sixteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents.

Contingent expenses, Law Department, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and three: For contingent expenses, including office supplies, stationery, advertising, assessors', interpreters', and other authorized fees, court costs, purchase of horses for prison van, harnesses, feed for

horses, and so forth, hire of vehicles in Manila on official business when such transportation can not be secured from the Insular Purchasing Agent not to exceed fifty dollars, and for other incidental expenses, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

Salaries and wages, Department of Police, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and three: Chief of Police at three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, one Inspector and Assistant Chief of Police at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, one Assistant Inspector at two thousand dollars per annum, one Chief of Secret Service at three thousand dollars per annum, one surgeon at one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, one assistant surgeon at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, one clerk class six, five clerks class eight, four clerks class nine, two clerks Class A, seven clerks Class D, three emyloyees at one hundred and twenty dollars per annum each, and for salaries and wages of captains, lieutenants, sergeants, roundsmen, patrolmen, detectives, crew of launch for River and Harbor Police, and laborers, not to exceed one hundred and twenty-seven thousand three hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents, and for salaries of special policemen during the cholera epidemic, not to exceed five thousand dollars, one hundred and forty thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents.

Equipment, Department of Police, city of Manila, nineteen hundred. and two: For the purchase of uniform material to be sold to the members of the Department of Police, six thousand three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and fifty cents.

The amount disbursed under the appropriation last made shall be charged entirely to the city of Manila and the Government of the Philippine Islands shall not be charged with thirty per centum of this expense.

Equipment, Department of Police, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and three: For equipment of police force, including horses, harness, and wagons, nine hundred and thirty dollars.

Contingent expenses, Department of Police, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and two: For the hire of vehicles in Manila on official business when the same could not be furnished by the Insular Purchasing Agent, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fifty dollars.

Contingent expenses, Department of Police, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and three: For contingent expenses, including office supplies, subsistence of prisoners, forage for horses and for the public pound, transportation, hire of vehicles in Manila on official business when the same can not be furnished by the Insular Purchasing Agent, not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars, coal, repairs, and supplies for River and Harbor Police launch, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

Salaries and wages, Department of City Schools, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and three: One clerk class seven, two clerks class nine, one clerk Class G, one employee at one hundred and twenty dollars per annum, and salaries and wages of teachers and employees in night schools and native teachers in the city of Manila, not to exceed twenty-three thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents, twenty-five thousand and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents. Contingent expenses, Department of City Schools, city of Manila, nineteen hundred and three: For contingent expenses, including office

and school supplies, stationery, coolie hire, and other incidental expenses, six hundred dollars.

In all, for the city of Manila, six hundred and sixty-seyen thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars and eighty-six cents.

Total of appropriations for all purposes, three million one hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred and forty-two dollars and thirtythree cents, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SEC. 2. The appropriations herein made shall be withdrawn from the Treasury in local currency at the ratio authorized at the time of such withdrawal, and so disbursed.

SEC. 3. All appropriations herein made for public works such as the construction and repair of public buildings, docks, wharves, and roads, and for harbor improvements, shall be available for withdrawal and disbursement until the said public works are completed. All balances remaining unexpended when any public works so appropriated for 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. 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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, October 27, 1902.

[No. 491.]

AN ACT appropriating the sum of one hundred and sixty-three dollars and thirtythree cents, United States currency, payable in local currency at the authorized rate of exchange at the time of payment, to Jacob C. Mulder, in lieu of salary from February first to March nineteenth, nineteen hundred and two, while awaiting transportation in the United States to Manila.

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

SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred and sixty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, United States currency, payable in local currency at the authorized rate of exchange at the time of payment, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for payment to Jacob C. Mulder, a civil service employee, in lieu of salary from February first to March nineteenth, nineteen hundred and two, while awaiting transportation in the United States to Manila.

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.
Enacted, October 27, 1902.

[No. 492.]

AN ACT authorizing the provincial treasurer of Albay to pay the sum of eighty dollars, local currency, for hire of a launch in May, nineteen hundred and two, to transport the provincial treasurer and his deputy from Legaspi to Tabaco to inspect the suboffice of Virac.

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

SECTION 1. The provincial treasurer of Albay is hereby authorized to pay the sum of eighty dollars, local currency, for hire of a launch. in May, nineteen hundred and two, to transport the said treasurer and his deputy from Legaspi to Tabaco, Province of Albay, to enable them to visit the suboffice of Virac; anything in Act Numbered One hundred and twenty-two, limiting the traveling expenses of provincial officers of the Province of Albay 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.
Enacted, October 27, 1902.

[No. 493.]

AN ACT making the provisions of Act Numbered Four hundred and forty-nine retroactive so as to apply to contracts for feeding prisoners in provincial jails, entered into prior to the passage of Act Numbered Four hundred and forty-nine.

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

SECTION 1. The provisions of Act Numbered Four hundred and forty-nine, authorizing provincial boards, when necessary, to make contracts for feeding prisoners confined in the provincial jail, at a rate exceeding twenty cents, local currency, per diem, for each prisoner, are hereby made retroactive so as to apply to all contracts entered into by the provincial authorities prior to the passage of Act Numbered Four hundred and forty-nine.

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, October 27, 1902.

[No. 494.]

AN ACT authorizing the Collector of Customs for the Philippine Archipelago to grant a temporary license to the vessel San Nicolas, now in the harbor of Manila loaded with rice, to proceed to the Province of Ambos Camarines and there to discharge said rice, take on a cargo, and return to Manila.

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

SECTION 1. The Collector of Customs for the Philippine Archipelago is hereby authorized to issue a license to the vessel San Nicolas to proceed to the Province of Ambos Camarines with the cargo of rice she now has, and to discharge said cargo, take on a cargo from the Province of Ambos Camarines, and to return to the city of Manila.

SEC. 2. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to relieve the vessel San Nicolas, or her owners, from liability to fine or other penalty for violation of the coastwise trading laws or regulations prior to the passage hereof.

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 twentysix, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, November 1, 1902.

[No. 495.]

AN ACT appropriating the sum of two million dollars, local currency, for expenses in connection with the purchase and distribution of rice to inhabitants of the Philippine Islands in provinces suffering from scarcity of food, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. The sum of two million dollars, local currency, is hereby appropriated, from any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for expenses in the purchase and distribution of rice for the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands in provinces suffering from lack of food.

SEC. 2. The purchase of rice shall be made by the Insular Purchasing Agent in such quantities and at such prices and times as the Civil Governor may direct. The rice so purchased shall be distributed in such manner and sold at such prices and in such localities as the Civil Governor may direct; but no sale shall be made except for cash nor at a price less than the actual cost thereof, including all expenses in connection with the distribution and sale of the same, such as transportation, shrinkage, storage, and customs duties.

SEC. 3. The amounts received from the sale of such rice shall be deposited in the Insular Treasury as soon as the same are received. SEC. 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with