the head of miscellaneous expenses for reimbursement to Captain John T. Knight, United States Army, which shall be disbursed in United States currency.

SEC. 3. The General Superintendent of Public Instruction is hereby authorized to expend out of the funds appropriated for "Contingent expenses, Bureau of Public Instruction, nineteen hundred and three," the sum of one thousand dollars local currency for the purpose of establishing and equipping in Bontoc, Province of Lepanto-Bontoc, a school for the instruction of Igorrotes in agricultural and other manual work.

The provincial board of the Province of Surigao is hereby authorized to direct the provincial treasurer of that province to pay compensation from provincial funds to Michael Luery, a public school-teacher, for services he has rendered as interpreter for that province from September first, nineteen hundred and one, to date, and hereafter as his services may be required from time to time by the province, at the rate of twenty-five dollars United States currency or its equivalent in local currency, per month, and the said Michael Luery is hereby authorized to accept such compensation from the province in addition to the salary he receives from the Insular Government as a public school-teacher: Provided, That his services as interpreter shall not in any way interfere with his work as a public school-teacher, and that the permission given him to act in this capacity may be at any time revoked by the General Superintendent of Public Instruction.

The funds appropriated in Act Numbered Four hundred and fifteen, under the head of "Contingent expenses, Chief Quartermaster, Division of the Philippines, nineteen hundred and two," are hereby made available for expenditure for the same purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three.

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 twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, July 31, 1902.

[No. 438.]

AN ACT providing for the incorporation of the Barrio of Quilbay, now a part of the municipality of Guinayangan, Province of Tayabas, into the municipality of Ragay, Province of Ambos Camarines.

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

SECTION 1. The barrio of Quilbay, now forming a part of the municipality of Guinayangan, Province of Tayabas, is hereby separated from said municipality and is incorporated as a barrio of the municipality of Ragay, Province of Ambos Camarines.

SEC. 2. All moneys that have heretofore been collected for municipal purposes in the said barrio of Quilbay shall belong to the treasury of the municipality of Guinayangan, and all moneys that shall accrue

from taxes hereafter collected in said barrio, whether assessed before the passage of this Act or subsequently, shall belong to the treasury of the municipality of Ragay.

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-six, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, July 31, 1902.

[No. 439.]

AN ACT providing for the payment of lawyers appointed by the Supreme Court to examine candidates for admission to the bar.

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

SECTION 1. Each attorney hereafter appointed by the Supreme Court, under the provisions of section two of the Rules of the Supreme Court for the Examination of Candidates for Admission to the Practice of Law, to act as a member of any examination committee appointed as therein provided, shall be paid the sum of twenty dollars, United States currency, for his services on such committee in the examination of all candidates who may properly come before it for examination.

SEC. 2. This compensation shall be made by the disbursing officer of the Bureau of Justice out of the appropriation for "Contingent expenses, Bureau of Justice," against which it is hereby made a proper charge, on presentation of a certificate of the clerk of the Supreme Court that such person was a member of such committee, acted as such, and that the committee has finished its labors.

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, August 4, 1902.

[No. 440.]

AN ACT amending General Orders Numbered Fifty-eight, office of the military governor, series of nineteen hundred, relating to criminal procedure, so as to allow the court under certain conditions to assign counsel who are not members of the bar to aid respondents in their defense.

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

SECTION 1. Section seventeen of General Orders Numbered Fiftyeight, issued from the Office of the United States Military Governor in the Philippine Islands on the twenty-third day of April, nineteen hundred, relating to criminal procedure, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"The counsel so employed or assigned must be a duly authorized member of the bar: Provided, nevertheless, That in provinces where duly authorized members of the bar are not available, the court may, in its discretion, admit or assign some person, resident in the province and of good repute for probity and ability, to act as counsel for the defendant, although the person so admitted or assigned be not a duly authorized member of the bar."

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, August 4, 1902.

[No. 441.]

passage.

AN ACT amending Act Numbered Four hundred and twenty-two, organizing a provincial government in the Province of Paragua, so as to provide that the duties of fiscal of that province shall be performed by the fiscal for the fourteenth judicial district.

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

SECTION 1. Section three of Act Numbered Four hundred and twentytwo, entitled "An Act providing for the organization of a provincial government in the Province of Paragua, and defining the limits of that province," is hereby amended by striking out therefrom the words: 'and a provincial fiscal at a salary of one thousand dollars per year.' SEC. 2. The duties imposed by said Act Numbered Four hundred and twenty-two upon the provincial fiscal for the Province of Paragua shall be performed by the fiscal for the Fourteenth Judicial District, appointed in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered One hundred and sixty.

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
Enacted, August 4, 1902.

[No. 442.]

passage.

AN ACT amending Act Numbered Three hundred and ninety so as to authorize the payment of the traveling expenses of certain officials and employees of courts of first instance when sessions are held at other places than those fixed for regular sessions.

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

SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Three hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act amending Act Numbered One hundred and forty so

as to authorize judges of Courts of First Instance to hold special terms of their several courts at places within their respective districts other than those fixed in said Act," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"In case special terms are held at other places within the several districts created by Act Numbered One hundred and forty, as provided in this section, the actual and necessary traveling expenses and subsistence expenses, the latter not to exceed one dollar, local currency, per day, of the clerk, escribiente, stenographer, and interpreter, if such employees are necessary, shall be paid in the same manner as are the other expenses of the Department of Justice."

SEC. 2. The provisions of section one shall be held retroactive, so as to apply to the special session of the Court of First Instance for the Thirteenth Judicial District, held at Jimenez, in the Province of Misamis, in January, nineteen hundred and two, by direction of the Commission.

SEC. 3. The names of the persons entitled to such compensation, and the amount of the compensation, shall be certified to by the judge who presided at the special session.

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.
Enacted, August 6, 1902.

[No. 443.]

AN ACT authorizing the provincial board of any province organized under "The Provincial Government Act" to use portions of the provincial funds in certain cases for the construction and repair of roads and bridges within the inhabited parts of the municipalities.

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

SECTION 1. The provincial board of any province organized under "The Provincial Government Act" is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to expend a portion of the funds in the provincial treasury for the construction and repair of roads and bridges in the inhabited parts of the province whenever the board shall determine that the municipality within the inhabited parts of which such roads and bridges are situated is financially unable to make the construction or repairs referred to, and that the construction or repair of such roads and bridges is of general importance to the province and ought to be made in whole or in part out of provincial funds, anything in existing legislation to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 2. In case the provincial board shall determine that a road or bridge of general importance to the province, within the inhabited portion of a municipality, is in need of repair, and shall notify the municipal council of the municipality in which such road or bridge is situated of the necessity of such repairs, and the municipal council shall fail for thirty days to proceed to make the repairs required, the

provincial board is hereby authorized to make such repairs out of provincial funds and to assess the whole or any equitable part of the expense thus incurred against the delinquent municipality, taking into consideration in such assessment the ability of the municipality to bear the whole or any portion of the expense, and the utility of the road or bridge for the general interests of the province: Provided, That the authority granted in this and the preceding section shall not apply to purely local roads or bridges. It shall be the duty of the municipal treasurer to pay to the provincial treasurer such sum or sums as may be assessed against the municipality by virtue of the provisions of this section.

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, August 6, 1902.

[No. 444.]

AN ACT creating the office of Consulting Engineer to the Commission. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. The office of Consulting Engineer to the Commission is hereby created. The incumbent thereof shall be appointed by the Civil Governor, by and with the consent of the Commission, and shall be paid at the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars for the first year and at the rate of five thonsand dollars per annum thereafter.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Consulting Engineer to advise the Civil Governor and the Commission upon all matters pertaining to engineering work as to which his advice may be desired by the Commission. He shall also make any reconnaissances, surveys, or do other work requiring engineering skill that may be directed by the Civil Governor or the Commission. He may also be placed in personal charge and direction of any work of harbor or river improvement, sewer construction, or other engineering work provided to be done by the Commission. He may also in the discretion of the Civil Governor be given general supervision and direction of the provincial supervisors in so far as relates to the laying out and construction of roads, public building, or other engineering work.

SEC. 3. The Consulting Engineer shall for the present have the following assistants to be appointed by him: One civil engineer, class seven, and one clerk, class nine, both to be in the classified service and to be selected according to the provisions of the Civil Service Act.

SEC. 4. The Consulting Engineer and the assistant engineer, when absent from the city of Manila on duty, shall be allowed their actual and necessary traveling expenses and actual subsistence expenses, the latter not to exceed two dollars, money of the United States, per day. When transportation by steamship, Government transport, or otherwise, includes subsistence, no per diem shall be paid or allowed for such portion of the journey.