SEC. 4. The director of the college and experiment station shall, subject to the approval of the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture, fix the course of study, supervise the work and expenditures of the college and experiment station, and of all subordinate officers and employees, who shall be immediately responsible to him for their official acts and conduct. He shall formulate, subject to the approval of the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture, plans for practical and experimental work in conjunction with the courses of study.

SEC. 5. The courses of study offered by the college shall include horticulture; farm management, including road building, drainage, and irrigation; animal industry; diseases of plants and animals useful to man; economic botany and entomology; chemistry; the English language; special courses upon important and practical subjects, includ ing the culture and harvesting of important crops, and the breeding of domestic animals; and such other subjects as the director may deem advisable to introduce and the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture may approve.

SEC. 6. Instruction shall be given by officers or employees of the Bureau of Agriculture who may be designated for this purpose by the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture; by officers or employees of the Bureau of Government Laboratories who may be designated for this purpose by the Superintendent of Government Laboratories at the request of the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture; and by such instructors appointed by the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture as may hereafter be authorized. All courses of study shall, so far as practicable, be accompanied by practical laboratory or farm work.

SEC. 7. Students shall be furnished instruction and lodging without charge, but shall pay for their board at a rate sufficient to cover the actual cost of the food furnished and of preparing and serving it. This rate shall be fixed by the director, subject to the approval of the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture.

SEC. 8. The experiment station shall conduct investigations into the comparative advantages of rotating crops as pursued under varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimatization; the comparative effects of manures and of different methods of cultivation on crops; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the food value of different kinds of food for domestic animals; the improvement of plants and animals by careful selection and breeding; and such other investigations bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the Islands as local conditions may warrant and the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture may approve.

SEC. 9. There shall be an advisory board, consisting of the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture and six members representing the agricultural interests of the Islands, who shall be appointed by the Civil Governor. This board shall meet annually at the college at the call of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purpose of investigating and reporting to the Secretary of the Interior upon the work of the college and experiment station, and of making such recommendations as it may deem advisable with reference to future work. Members of the board shall be allowed the actual and necessary cost of travel from their homes to La Carlota and return, together with subsistence and a per diem of five dollars, United States currency, per day while proceeding to the place of meeting, attending the meeting, and returning therefrom.

SEC. 10. The director of the college and experiment station shall make quarterly reports of progress to the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture, and on or before the thirtieth day of June of each year shall present a full and detailed report of all operations of the college and experiment station for the preceding twelve months, including a statement of receipts and expenditures, one copy of which shall be sent to the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture and one to the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago. The director of the college and station may also present to the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture from time to time for publication, reports of results of experiments, or other matters of public interest which may be learned through researches carried on under his direction. All bulletins and reports prepared by the college or station shall be issued by and distributed through the Bureau of Agriculture.

SEC. 11. The sum of fifteen thousand dollars, in money of the United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the construction of roads and buildings upon the La Carlota estate, for the purchase of draft animals and agricultural machinery, for the payment of such farm laborers as may be deemed necessary by the director and approved by the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture, and for the contingent expenses of the college and experiment station for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three. All funds appropriated for the college and experiment station shall be disbursed by the officer of the college or station who shall be designated for this purpose by the Civil Governor, as in other cases.

SEC. 12. The Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture shall prepare rules and regulations for the admission and matriculation of pupils in the Agricultural College, having in view the general intention to secure an attendance at the college of pupils from all the provinces of the Archipelago. The regulations shall fix the age, and the moral, physical, and educational qualifications of those who may be matriculated. Each pupil who shall finish successfully the entire course of study prescribed as hereinbefore provided shall receive a diploma, signed by the director of the college, the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture, and the Secretary of the Interior, conferring the degree of Bachelor of Agriculture, to be abbreviated as "B. Agr. The rules and regulations may further provide for the issuing of certificates of proficiency by the director of the college and the Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture to those who shall have finished successfully special courses to be prescribed in said rules and regulations. The rules and regulations shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior.

SEC. 13. Sections nineteen and twenty-four of Act Numbered Seventy-four, together with all other Acts or parts of Acts relating to the establishment of an agricultural school in the Island of Negros inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 14. 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. 15. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, November 10, 1902.

[No. 513.]

AN ACT amending Rule forty-eight of Act Numbered Ninety.

By authority of the United States, and with the concurrence and approval of the Secretary of War first had, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. Rule forty-eight of Act Numbered Ninety is hereby amended by adding at the close thereof the following:

"There is hereby created and shall be maintained the office of cashier of the Treasurer of the Islands, to be filled by appointment of the Secretary of War, whose duties shall be, under the supervision of the Treasurer, to receive and disburse cash in the office of the Treasurer and have charge of the cash room and perform such other duties as the Treasurer may assign to him. He shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars. He shall have charge of the Bureau of the Treasury as Acting Treasurer in case of the death, resignation, sickness, or other absence of the Treasurer. He shall give bond, the amount and sufficiency of which shall be fixed and approved in the same manner as the Treasurer's bond."

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
Enacted, November 10, 1902.

[No. 514.]

passage.

AN ACT creating a commission to secure, organize, and make an exhibit of Philippine products, manufactures, art, ethnology, and education at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to be held at Saint Louis, in the United States, in nineteen hundred and four.

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

SECTION 1. For the purpose of securing, organizing, and making an exhibit of Philippine products, manufactures, art, ethnology, education, and the customs and habits of the people, there shall be appointed by the Civil Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Philippine Commission, a board to consist of three members, one of whom shall be designated as chairman in his appointment, to be called the Exposition Board.

The chairman of the Board shall receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars, United States currency, and the other two members shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars, United States currency, each. The actual traveling expenses of each member, while absent from his usual place of residence on business of the Board, shall be paid out of the Exposition fund hereinafter provided.

Any two members of the Board shall constitute a quorum. SEC. 2. The Civil Governor shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Philippine Commission, a secretary of the Board, who shall receive a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars, United States currency, per annum.

The Exposition Board shall have power to appoint stenographers, clerks, traveling agents, messengers, laborers, and such other employees as may be necessary at salaries or wages to be fixed by the Board upon the approval of the Civil Governor while the majority of the Board is in the Philippine Islands. When a quorum of the Board is in the United States no positions shall be created and no persons appointed to the same, except by the unanimous vote of the three members of the Board.

It shall be the duty of the Board either as a body, or by individual members, or through agents, to secure in the Philppine Islands as comprehensive an exhibit as possible of the products and resources, manufactures, art, ethnology, education, government of the Philippine Islands, and the habits and customs of the Filipino people; and for this purpose the Board is authorized to visit, either as a body or by individual members, or by agents, every part of the Philippine Islands.

SEC. 3. The Board shall have an office in the city of Manila, to be assigned to it in some available public building by the Civil Governor, and shall adopt rules for its meetings and the discharge of its business.

SEC. 4. The Board is authorized and directed to hold a preliminary exposition of certain of the exhibits at Manila in the autumn of nineteen hundred and three; and to secure buildings and space for this purpose in the city of Manila and to improve the same, and to establish a permanent museum of such exhibits in Manila. The Board is further authorized and directed to secure the needed land from the authorities of the Saint Louis Exposition; to expend the necessary sums in the drawing of plans for the necessary buildings, and for their construction; and for the laying out of the grounds included in the tract of land assigned to the Philippine Exhibit; to incur all necessary expenditures, in the securing of exhibits including the necessary advertising, in the transportation of exhibits from the points where secured in the Philippine Islands to Manila, and thence to Saint Louis in the United States.

It shall be the duty of the Board, or its agents, to secure from as many persons as possible, private exhibits or articles belonging to such persons, and to return the same to them at the close of the Exposition in Saint Louis.

The Board is further authorized to acquire by purchase such exhibits as it may not be able to obtain gratuitously, and to make such disposition of same after the Exposition is closed as may seem wise, tendering them first to the Smithsonian Institute, and second, to the Philadelphia Commercial Museum.

SEC. 5. The Board herein appointed shall, subject to the approval of the Civil Governor, formulate rules which shall govern the receipt of exhibits, their preservation, transportation, classification, and final disposition.

The Board appointed herein shall have power to incur, in the work of the collection of the exhibit, its transportation to Saint Louis, and the holding of the preliminary exposition at Manila, the construction of buildings at Saint Louis and the laying out of grounds, and in other expenditures authorized by this Act, obligations not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in money of the United States; and in addition to that sum, any sum

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which may be contributed for the purpose of aiding the Philippine Exhibit by the Directors of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the latter sum to be expended under such limitations and restrictions as may be imposed by the Directors of the Exposition.

SEC. 6. All letters mailed by the Exposition Board, its members, or its secretary, on Exposition business, together with mail inclosed in return envelopes from persons communicating with the Board, its secretary, or its agents on Exposition business, shall be carried in the mails of the Philippine Islands free.

SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the heads of all the Bureaus of the Insular Government and the governors and members of the provincial boards of all the provinces, and of all the municipal presidents and other municipal officers in the Islands, together with Constabulary officers and the captains and officers of Coast Guard vessels, to furnish every assistance in their power not inconsistent with law to the Exposition Board and its agents appointed under this Act for the purpose of expediting the securing of exhibits, their transportation, and their classification. The free use of the telegraph lines of the Islands shall be allowed to the members of the Exposition Board and its employees and agents for the purpose of facilitating the business of the Board.

SEC. 8. No taxes or duties shall be imposed by the Insular, provincial, or municipal governments of the Islands on exhibits collected by the Exposition Board for exhibit, either in Manila or Saint Louis.

SEC. 9. The Board shall render a monthly report of the work done by it to the Civil Governor, and a quarterly account of its receipts and expenditures to the Civil Governor and the Auditor for the Archipelago.

SEC. 10. The Civil Governor shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Philippine Commission, a disbursing officer for the Exposition Board, under this Act, who shall receive compensation at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars, United States currency, per annum. In addition to his acting as disbursing officer, he shall discharge such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Exposition Board. The Civil Governor shall fix his bond. The disbursing officer thus appointed shall be subject to all the requirements imposed by existing law upon the disbursing officers of other Bureaus and Departments in respect to rendering accounts to the Auditor and in his drawing of moneys from the Treasury and his custody and deposit of the same.

SEC. 11. The Civil Governor is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Commission, five honorary commissioners, who shall be representative Filipinos, to visit the Exposition in May, nineteen hundred and four, and to remain in the United States, chiefly in Saint Louis, for the purpose of acting upon the committees of award, of advising the Board appointed under this Act, and of representing the Filipino people upon all occasions, when such representation will be necessary or proper, in the public meetings and congresses at the Exposition. Such honorary commissioners shall receive their actual traveling expenses and subsistence in going from Manila to Saint Louis, in their stay in Saint Louis, and in their return to Manila, and a per diem compensation of seven dollars per day each for a period beginning thirty-five days before the day of the opening of the Exposition until thirty-five days after its close, or so long as they may remain in the United States in attendance upon