of sucn officials, the appointment of temporary officials, and their compensation, and the filling of vacancies in provincial offices created by removal, resignation, or death, are hereby made applicable to the Province of Mindoro. SEC. 15. (a) The actual and necessary traveling expenses of the deputies, subordinates, and other employees of provincial officers engaged in traveling in the province on official business shall be paid from the provincial treasury when authorized by the provincial board and approved by the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago. The same limitation as to the amount of the expenses per day which applies to the traveling expenses of the provincial officers shall apply to those herein authorized. (b) In applying the statutory limitation upon the amount per day which can be actually expended and reimbursed to provincial officers and their subordinates for expenses in traveling on official business for the province, the total actual traveling expenses for each quarter shall be added together and divided by the number of days of the quarter during which the officer or his subordinates has been absent on public business in the province from the capital thereof; and if the amount per day thus calculated and averaged for the quarter does not exceed the limitation of maximum per diem expenses hereinbefore authorized, the whole amount actually expended shall be allowed to the officer or his subordinate. SEC. 16. It shall be the duty of the provincial board, immediately after its organization, to proceed with the organization of all the pueblos of the province which have, in their opinion, a sufficient Christian or civilized population to warrant the maintenance of a municipal government therein, and upon completing such organization, shall make a report to the Civil Governor of the names of the pueblos so organized into municipalities, with the estimated civilized population in them and the manner in which the boundaries thereof have been designated. If the boundaries adopted by the board are the same as those that have heretofore existed under any organization made by the military authorities of the United States, or by Spanish authorities before American occupancy, the facts shall be stated. The manner of organizing such municipalities, the designation of the municipalities so organized, the powers and liabilities thereof, the division into barrios, the officials of the several pueblos or townships, the manner of election or appointment of such officials, the duties and powers of such officials, the qualifications of electors and officials, the oath to be taken by officials and electors, the disqualifications from voting, the methods of conducting elections and issuing certificates of elections to officials entitled thereto, the accounting to be rendered by all such officials, the compensation for the officials, the requirements of bonds from officials, the exemption of persons from the performance of the duties of offices to which they are elected, the manner of filling vacancies in any office, the term of office of all officers elected and appointed, the liability of officers to penalties and damages, the powers and duties and methods of procedure of township councils, the effect of ordinances enacted by township councils, the method of imposing taxes and the resources from which revenues shall be derived for townships, the times when license and privilege taxes shall be paid, and when such licenses and privileges shall terminate, and the penalties for failure seasonably to pay the same, the duties of the provincial supervisor-treasurer as to keeping the records open to public inspection, and the names of all persons paying license or privilege taxes arranged alphabetically, the method of imposing penalties for failure to pay taxes, the right of the provincial governor to supervise all ordinances and rules passed by the township councils, the duty of the persons within the townships to declare the value of their property for the purposes of taxation, the right of the provincial governor, the provincial supervisor-treasurer, and the president of the township council in which the property lies to reconsider the value so stated as a board of assesors, the procedure in case a property owner fails to declare the value of his property within the time fixed by law, and the penalties to be imposed for failure so to do, and the method of enforcing such penalties, the persons who shall be exempt from the payment of any property tax, the amount of the annual property tax, the requirements of cedulas as to each person paying taxes, the method of issuing cedulas, the requirements as to the production of cedulas, and the consequences of failure to produce them, the preparation of lists of persons from whom the property tax is due and the amount of such taxes, and the notification to taxpayers in relation to such taxes, the time when such taxes shall be due, the method of collecting and enforcing payment thereof with or without penalties, the disposition of sums realized from taxes, the liability of the supervisor-treasurer for uncollected taxes, the meetings of presidents of the several townships for the purpose of considering matters needed in the province and making recommendations to the provincial board, the determination of disputes as to the boundaries of townships, the right of the provincial governor to suspend any township official, the method of securing blank forms for the use of townships and of paying therefor, shall be such as are prescribed in sections one to sixtyseven, inclusive, with the exception of section sixty, of 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," which Act in all its terms shall, so far as they are applicable, be controlling in the organization and carrying on of municipal governments in the Province of Mindoro. Wherever the provincial secretary-treasurer or the provincial supervisor is mentioned in such sections, for the purposes of this Act it shall be read provincial supervisor-treasurer, except in section sixty-four, where the words provincial secretary-treasurer shall be read provincial secretary. SEC. 17. In the year nineteen hundred and three the declarations as to the value of property for purposes of taxation required by the provisions of the preceding section shall be made between the first and thirty-first days of July, and property owners shall be subject to the fine provided for failure to declare the value of their property within the period fixed, if they fail to make their declarations on or before the first day of August. The supervisor-treasurer shall prepare the list of persons from whom taxes are due on or before the first day of September, nineteen hundred and three, and taxes may be paid between the first and the thirty-first days of December, nineteen hundred and three, on the days fixed as provided by the provisions of said Act Numbered Three hundred and eighty-seven. Unpaid taxes shall become delinquent on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and four. SEC. 18. The governor of the Province of Mindoro is hereby author ized, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to deal with and provide for the government of members of non-Christian tribes, within the Province of Mindoro as herein defined, in the manner provided in sections sixty-eight, sixty-nine, seventy, and seventyone of said Act Numbered Three hundred and eighty-seven, which sections, so far as they are applicable, shall be controlling in governing non-Christian tribes in the Province of Mindoro. SEC. 19. 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. 20. This act shall take effect on its [No. 501.] passage. AN ACT transferring the Province of Tayabas from the Sixth to the Seventh Judicial District, and the Province of Mindoro from the Seventh to the Sixth Judicial District, providing for the holding of the terms of court for Tayabas at the towns of Tayabas and Boac, and amending Act Numbered One hundred and forty. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. (a) Paragraph eight of section one of Act Numbered One hundred and forty is hereby amended to read as follows: "The Sixth Judicial District shall consist of the Provinces of La Laguna, Cavite, and Mindoro." (b) Paragraph nine of said section one of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "The Seventh Judicial District shall consist of the Provinces of Batangas and Tayabas." SEC. 2. (a) Subdivision seven of section three of Act Numbered One hundred and forty relating to the Sixth Judicial District, is hereby amended by striking out the third, fourth, and fifth paragraphs thereof and substituting therefor the following: "At Calapan, in and for the Province of Mindoro, commencing on the first Tuesdays of April and October of each year, until suitable accommodation for the court can be constructed at Puerto Galera in the same province. (b) Subdivision eight of section three of said Act Numbered One hundred and forty relating to the Seventh Judicial District, shall be amended by striking out the second and third paragraphs thereof and substituting therefor the following: "At Tayabas, in and for the Province of Tayabas, commencing on the first Tuesdays of April and October of each year. "At Boac, in and for the Island of Marinduque, commencing on the third Tuesdays of February and August of each year." 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. Enacted, November 10, 1902. [No. 502.] AN ACT amending "The Municipal Code" by authorizing the Civil Governor to postpone general municipal elections under certain circumstances. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Act Numbered Eighty-two, entitled "The Municipal Code," is hereby amended by inserting after the word "following, in the fifth line of paragraph (a), of section nine thereof, the following words: "Provided, That the Civil Governor may in his discretion postpone municipal elections in any province when, on account of the prevalence of ladronism, or for other causes, he may deem such a course conducive to the public interest," so that the first sentence of this paragraph shall read as follows: "General municipal elections (except the first, for which special provision is hereinafter made, in Chapter VIII) shall be held on the first Tuesday in December of each year, and the officers elected thereat shall enter upon their duties on the first Monday of January following: Provided, That the Civil Governor may in his discretion postpone municipal elections in any province when, on account of the prevalence of ladronism, or for other causes, he may deem such a course conducive to the public interest." 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. 503.] AN ACT amending Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Manila. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section thirty-nine of Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Manila,” is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section: "Any person who shall willfully and corruptly swear or testify falsely to any material matter under such oath shall be guilty of perjury and shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than two nor more than ten years." 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, November 10, 1902. [No. 504.] AN ACT amending Act Numbered One hundred and forty-five, entitled "An Act authorizing the appointment of disbursing clerks in the various civil Departments, Bureaus, and Offices, prescribing the duties of disbursing clerks, and fixing their compensation as such." By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered One hundred and fortyfive, entitled "An Act authorizing the appointment of disbursing clerks in the various civil Departments, Bureaus, and Offices, prescribing the duties of disbursing clerks, and fixing their compensation as such," is hereby amended by substituting therefor the following: SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of every disbursing officer in the city of Manila having any public moneys intrusted to him for disbursement to deposit the same with the Treasurer of the Archipelago or in a depository designated by him and to draw for the same as may be required for payments made by him in pursuance of law. No payment shall be made in cash by any disbursing officer in the city of Manila where the amount to be paid exceeds the sum of ten dollars, United States currency, except for salaries and wages. All payments to creditors other than for salaries and wages, as stated, in the city of Manila, shall be by check upon the designated depository for the disbursing officer, the number and amount of the check so drawn being entered on the voucher covering said payment. Payments of salaries and wages may be made in cash, but the disbursing officer shall draw his check payable to himself for an amount not exceeding the amount of any pay roll to be paid by him for any month, and he shall state on the check so drawn that it is for funds with which to salaries and pay wages, and, if required to do so by the Treasurer of the Archipelago, shall submit a list of the salary payments to be made from the proceeds of such check. No disbursing officer shall keep in his personal possession at any time an amount in cash exceeding his immediate requirements for disbursement, but shall deposit all surplus funds drawn from the Insular Treasury in his designated depository until such time as he may be required or directed by the Auditor to deposit the same in the Insular Treasury as repayments to the appropriations originally drawn upon. All original transfers from the Treasury to a disbursing officer shall be by warrant on the Treasury, as provided by Act Numbered Ninety." 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 [No. 505.] passage. AN ACT to repeal section eight of Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-seven, entitled "An Act providing for the establishment of a civil hospital at Manila.” By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section eight of Act Numbered Two hundred and forty |