to collect the land tax for the year nineteen hundred and two in certain provinces by the time heretofore designated, the period for the payment, without penalty, of the land tax for the year nineteen hundred and two in the Provinces of Bohol, Cebu, Ilocos Norte, Masbate, Misamis, Rizal, and Zambales is hereby extended to April fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three, anything in previous Acts to the contrary notwithstanding. All penalties heretofore collected for the nonpayment of the land tax in such provinces for the year nineteen hundred and two are hereby remitted, and the provincial treasurers of the respective provinces mentioned are authorized and directed to allow a rebate of the amount of such penalty to the taxpayer upon whom the penalty was assessed upon payment of his land tax for the year 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.
Enacted, January 29, 1903.

[No. 605.]

AN ACT for the relief of E. B. Cook, disbursing officer for the Bureau of Customs and Immigration.

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

Whereas E. B. Cook, disbursing officer for the Bureau of Customs and Immigration, did, on the fourteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and two, pay the sum of ninety-three dollars and seventy-five cents, money of the United States, to Dickson A. Everett, as half salary from April sixteenth to May twelfth, nineteen hundred and two, without presentation by said Everett of his original appointment to the Philippine Civil Service, and it now appearing from the correspondence on file that the employment of said Everett by the Bureau of Customs and Immigration was upon sufficient authority,

SECTION 1. The act of E. B. Cook, disbursing officer for the Bureau of Customs and Immigration, in paying the sum of ninety-three dollars and seventy-five cents, money of the United States, to Dickson A. Everett, as half salary from April sixteenth to May twelfth, nineteen hundred and two, without presentation of the original certificate of appointment, is hereby validated and approved, and the said Cook will be allowed credit on his books as disbursing officer for said sum.

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, January 29, 1903.

[No. 606.]

AN ACT fixing the salaries of the Register of Deeds and the Examiner of Titles for the city of Manila, to be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six, entitled "The Land Registration Act."

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

SECTION 1. In accordance with section thirteen of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six, entitled "The Land Registration Act," the salary of the Register of Deeds for the city of Manila is hereby fixed at two thousand dollars per annum; and the salary of the Examiner of Titles for the city of Manila, is hereby fixed at one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; both in money of the United States. 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, January 30, 1903.

[No. 607.]

AN ACT amending Acts Numbered One hundred and fifty-six and One hundred and fifty-seven, by incorporating the Vaccine Institute with the Serum Institute, and by transferring the Serum Institute from the Board of Health for the Philippine Islands to the Bureau of Government Laboratories under the name of the Serum Laboratory, and by authorizing certain employees for the Serum Laboratory.

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

SECTION 1. Act Numbered One hundred and fifty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the establishment of government laboratories for the Philippine Islands," is hereby amended as follows:

(a) By striking out section one and substituting therefor the following: "SECTION 1. A Biological Laboratory, a Chemical Laboratory, and a laboratory for the production of virus and of prophylactics shall be established and maintained by the Government of the Philippine Islands."

(b) By striking out section four and substituting therefor the following:

"SEC. 4. The Serum Laboratory shall be established at Manila and shall afford adequate facilities for the production of vaccine virus and of serums and of prophylactics in such quantity as the public interest may demand.”

(c) By striking out paragraph (a) of section seven and substituting therefor the following:

"(a) The Superintendent of Government Laboratories shall be the Director of either the Biological or the Chemical Laboratory, as the Civil Governor shall determine, and the commission approve, and the other of these laboratories shall be under the supervision of a Director, who shall receive compensation at the rate of three thousand

five hundred dollars per year. The Serum Laboratory shall be under the supervision of a Director, who shall receive compensation at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per year. The three Directors shall be experts in their respective lines of work, and shall personally carry on original investigations."

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(d) By adding at the close of paragraph (b) of section seven the following words: Provided, That the Superintendent of Government Laboratories shall exercise general supervision over the Serum Laboratory, and that the determining of general methods of work and lines of investigation, and the prescribing of the duties of its employees, shall be subject to his approval."

(e) By striking out of section eight the words "biological and chemical" whenever they occur, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "biological, chemical, and serum"; and by striking out the words biological or chemical" whenever they occur, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "biological, chemical, or serum."

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(ƒ) By striking out section nine and substituting therefor the following:

"SEC. 9. The Superintendent of Government Laboratories and the additional Directors provided for in section seven shall be appointed by the Civil Governor, by and with the consent of the Commission." (g) By striking out section ten.

SEC. 2. Act Numbered One hundred and fifty-seven, entitled "An Act providing for the establishment of a Board of Health for the Philippine Islands," is hereby amended by striking out paragraph (k) of section four and substituting therefor the following:

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"(k) It shall fall upon the Superintendent of Government Laboratories to furnish such virus, serums and prophylactics manufactured by the Serum Laboratory as the Board of Health for the Philippine Islands may consider necessary for its work, and the Superintendent of Government Laboratories shall, upon such demand, deliver to the Commissioner of Public Health the virus, serums, and prophylactics requested or such part thereof as he may have on hand in excess of the quantity necessary for properly continuing the work of the Serum Laboratory.

SEC. 3. The following employees of the Serum Laboratory are hereby authorized: One assistant director, class nine; one employee, Class H; two foremen, Class J; five vaccinators at six dollars local currency each per day; twenty laborers at one dollar local currency each per day.

SEC. 4. All outstanding financial obligations of the Board of Health for the Philippine Islands incurred on account of the Serum Institute or the Vaccine Institute prior to January first, nineteen hundred and three, shall be met by the Board of Health for the Philippine Islands. from funds appropriated for these institutions prior to the passage of this Act.

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 as of January first, nineteen hundred and three.

Enacted, January 30, 1903.

[No. 608.]

AN ACT providing for the conversion into the Insular Treasury of Spanish seized funds, returns at the mint, returns at the Treasury, and special deposits in the hands oft he Treasurer, and authorizing the sale of such assets as have an ascertainable value and the conversion of the proceeds thereof into the Insular Treasury, and for the disposition of those that may be without monetary value.

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

SECTION 1. The Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago is hereby authorized and directed to deposit in the Insular Treasury on account of "miscellaneous receipts" all such Spanish seized funds, returns at the Treasury, and special deposits now in his hands as are in the form of Mexican pesos, Spanish-Filipino pesos or fractional parts thereof, Spanish-Filipino bank notes, or United States currency.

SEC. 2. The Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago is hereby authorized and directed to deliver to the Attorney-General for the Philippine Islands all Spanish seized funds, returns at the Treasury and special deposits, that are in the form of deposit certificates, checks, or drafts, taking his receipt for the same. It is hereby made the duty of the Attorney-General to proceed to collect such deposit certificates, checks, and drafts so far as may be practicable, and to pay the proceeds of such collections to the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago, who shall deposit them in the Treasury on account of "miscellaneous receipts." Such of said deposits, certificates, checks, and drafts as are impossible of collection shall be returned by the Attorney-General to the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago, and shall be by him transferred to his property account.

SEC. 3. The Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago is hereby authorized and directed to advertise for sale to the highest bidder all Spanish seized funds, returns at the Treasury, and special deposits which are now in his hands in the form of Spanish gold coin, Spanish treasury bonds, Filipino treasury bonds Series B (except such of said bonds as belong to the "Carriedo Fund" for the benefit of the city of Manila), Spanish copper coin, Filipino gold coin, bar gold, gold dust, burned silver, burned silver pesos, copper, bank notes of foreign countries, and foreign coins not otherwise in this Act specially provided for. The Treasurer shall publish the advertisement for bids once a week, for six successive weeks, in two newspapers published in Manila in the English language, and in two newspapers published in Manila in the Spanish language. The advertisementshall describe specifically each item of property to be sold, and shall announce that bids will be received for all the items advertised, or for any separate class of said items, or parts of any class, and that bids may be accepted for the whole of any part thereof, and that the right to reject all bids is reserved. The bids shall state the sum tendered in money of the United States. The bids shall be under seal and shall each be accompanied by a certified check upon some bank which is by law a depository of funds of the Philippine Treasury, payable to the Treasurer, for ten per cent of the amount of the bid. The bids shall be opened, on the date stated in the advertisement, by the Treasurer in the presence of the Secretary of Finance and Justice, and in the presence of the bidders, should they desire to be present. The Treasurer shall accept such bids as are considered the most favorable for the Government, with the approval of the Sec

retary of Finance and Justice: Provided, nevertheless, That the right to reject any and all bids is reserved. Should no satisfactory bids be received for the Spanish gold, Filipino gold coin, bar gold, gold dust, burned silver pesos, burned copper and silver, then in that case such Spanish gold, Filipino gold coin, bar gold, gold dust, burned silver pesos, burned copper and silver shall be forwarded to the United States mint at San Francisco, California, for coinage into United States coin, or shall be coined into local coinage in the mint at Manila, as the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice, may determine to be expedient, and the proceeds thereof shall be deposited in the Insular Treasury on account of "miscellaneous receipts." The proceeds of the sale or sales of property by reason of accepted bids in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be deposited in the Insular Treasury on account of "miscellaneous receipts." Should no bids be accepted for the Spanish treasury bonds, the Filipino treasury bonds, and the copper coins aforesaid, the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago is hereby authorized, with the approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice, to sell the same or any part thereof at private sale, upon terms not less favorable to the Government than the most favorable of the rejected bids: Provided, however, That this Act shall not apply to the silver and other metal seized from the steamer Don Juan and discovered from the same source by officers of the Spanish Government in the month of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, the disposition of which is provided for by Act Numbered Five hundred and seventythree; all such silver and other metal shall be disposed of in the manner provided by said Act Numbered Five hundred and seventy-three. The certified checks accompanying bids not accepted shall be returned to the bidders. Checks accompanying accepted bids shall be covered into the Insular Treasury as part of the purchase price, and shall be deemed as liquidated damages in case the bidder fails to comply with the terms of the accepted bid. General Orders Numbered Forty-one, Office of the United States Military Governor in the Philippine Islands, dated September twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, whereby the exportation of Spanish copper coin from the Philippine Islands was prohibited under the penalties there prescribed, is hereby repealed, so far as it applies to the exportation of the Spanish copper coin in this section mentioned.

SEC. 4. The Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago is hereby authorized and directed to sell at public auction, at such place in the city of Manila as he may deem most suitable, after due advertisement, all such special deposits now in his hands, as Treasurer, as consists of small articles of gold, silver or other metals, jewelry, finger rings, earrings, field glasses, Japanese or Chinese coin, combs, necklaces, watches, studs, watch chains, medallions and pocketbooks. Articles in this section named shall be sold to the highest bidders, singly or in classified lots, under the direction of the Treasurer, and shall be advertised such length of time and in such manner as he shall direct, with the approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice. proceeds of the sale shall be deposited in the Insular Treasury on account of "miscellaneous receipts:" Provided, nevertheless, That such special deposits now in his possession as consist of insurrecto stick-pins, flags, medallions, cuff buttons, and other pins as badges of

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