contract or otherwise, is legally payable only in Mexican or SpanishFilipino currency, and the appropriation available therefor is in United States currency or Philippines currency, the Secretary of Finance and Justice may authorize the Insular Treasurer to transfer to the provincial supervisor-treasurer of Mindoro the amount of Mexican or Spanish-Filipino currency required for said payment, in exchange for the equivalent amount in United States currency or Philippines currency at the authorized rate of exchange at the time. such exchange is made. Notice of such exchange with the authority therefor shall be given forthwith to the Auditor by the Insular Treasurer and the provincial supervisor-treasurer of Mindoro. 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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 822.] AN ACT making further appropriation of one million dollars, in money of the United States, for the purchase of bullion with which to coin silver Philippine pesos. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one million dollars, in money of the United States, for the purpose of purchasing additional bullion with which to coin silver Philippine pesos provided by the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to establish a standard of value and providing for a coinage system in the Philippine Islands," approved March second, nineteen hundred and three." SEC. 2. The money herein appropriated shall be available not only for the purchase of bullion but for all of the expenses connected with its coinage, transportation, insurance, and circulation. 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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 823.] AN ACT consolidating the offices of provincial treasurer and provincial supervisor of the Province of Bataan. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The offices of provincial treasurer and provincial supervisor provided for in Act Numbered Ninety-two, extending the pro visions of the Provincial Government Act to the Province of Bataan, are hereby consolidated, and the office thus formed shall be known as the office of the provincial supervisor-treasurer. SEC. 2. The provincial governor, the provincial supervisor-treasurer, and the division superintendent of schools for the province, who shall receive no additional compensation for such services, shall constitute the provincial board. SEC. 3. The bond of the provincial supervisor-treasurer shall be seven thousand five hundred dollars. He shall receive an annual salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars, payable monthly. His qualifications and duties shall be the same as the qualifications and duties of provincial supervisor and provincial treasurer as outlined in the Provincial Government Act, except that the requirement that the provincial supervisor shall be a competent civil engineer and surveyor shall not apply. The supervisor-treasurer may employ a foreman in charge of the repair and construction of roads at a salary not to exceed sixty dollars a month. SEC. 4. So much of Act Numbered Ninety-two or any amendment thereof as may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed. 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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect on August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three. Enacted, August 4, 1903. [No. 824.] AN ACT appropriating the sum of three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, in money of the United States, to be expended by order of the Exposition Board in continuing and completing the preparation of the exhibit of the Philippine Islands to be presented at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the additional sum of three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, in money of the United States, to be expended by order of the Exposition Board in the preparation and maintenance of the Philippine exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at Saint Louis, United States of America, for the purposes and under the restrictions set forth in Act Numbered Five hundred and fourteen as amended by Act Numbered Seven hundred and sixty-five. SEC. 2. The purchase of a carriage and two horses for the use of the Exposition Board, at a cost of not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars, local currency, authorized by resolution of the Philippine Commission under date of January fifth, nineteen hundred and three, is hereby made a proper charge against the general appropriations for the said Exposition Board in the manner indicated in said resolution, the provisions of section one of Act Numbered One hundred and ninety-eight to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 3. The provisions of the first paragraph of section three of Act Numbered Eight hundred and seven, providing the manner in which withdrawals of moneys appropriated under said Act shall be made in other than United States currency or Philippines currency, are hereby made applicable to the withdrawal of moneys appropriated under this Act. 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 4, 1903. [No. 825.] AN ACT to repeal Act Numbered Fifty-three, entitled "An Act to prevent discrimination against money of the United States by banking institutions.” By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Act Numbered Fifty-three, entitled "An Act to prevent discrimination against money of the United States by banking institutions," is hereby repealed. 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. 826.] AN ACT to relieve the congestion in the necessary translation of records in criminal cases appealed from the various Courts of First Instance to the Supreme Court, and appropriating two thousand five hundred dollars for that purpose. Whereas the public business is delayed in the hearing of criminal cases by the accumulation of records on appeal which have not been translated from English into Spanish or from Spanish into English: Therefore, By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, in money of the United States, to be used under the direction of the Attorney-General for the employment of additional assistance in the translation from English into Spanish and from Spanish into English of the records of criminal cases which have been appealed from the various Courts of First Instance to the Supreme Court. SEC. 2. The Attorney-General is authorized, with the approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice, to make such contract or contracts as may seem best to him with competent translators not engaged in the public service to make the necessary translations, such persons to be employed under these contracts without being subject to the restrictions of the Civil Service Act. 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 for laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 827.] AN ACT further to amend section four of Act Numbered Five hundred and four teen as amended by Act Numbered Seven hundred and sixty-five, by providing that certain of the exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition owned by the Philippine Government shall be returned to Manila. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section four of Act Numbered Five hundred and fourteen, entitled "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," as amended by section three of Act Numbered Seven hundred and sixtyfive, is hereby further amended by adding at the close of said section four the following: "Provided, however, That from the exhibits at the Saint Louis Exposition owned by the Philippine Government there shall be selected by a committee to be designated by the Civil Governor all exhibits which, in the opinion of the committee, it would be wise and not too expensive to reship to Manila at the close of the Exposition at Saint Louis for use in a permanent museum in Manila: And provided further, That the property, effects, and exhibits of the Insular Museum of Ethnology, Natural History, and Commerce, established by Act Numbered Two hundred and eighty-four, which have been taken over by the Exposition Board shall be returned to Manila for use in a permanent museum at 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 twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 828.] AN ACT authorizing the Insular Purchasing Agent and provincial boards to sell carabao and other draft animals purchased out of the Congressional relief fund by the Insular Government for the purpose of restocking the Islands with draft animals and replacing draft animals destroyed by disease or other causes. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. All carabao and other draft animals purchased by the Insular Government out of the Congressional relief fund shall be branded by the Insular Purchasing Agent with the Government brand and a consecutive number, of which proper entry and account shall be kept by said Insular Purchasing Agent, together with the name of the vessel on which the animals were shipped to the Islands, the number under which they were shipped, the date of their arrival in the Philippines, and their final disposition under proper regulations to be prescribed in executive orders by the Civil Governor. SEC. 2. The Insular Purchasing Agent may consign to provincial boards for sale upon proper requisition such number of said carabao or other draft animals as may be required by the board and authorized by resolution of the Commission. SEC. 3. The Insular Purchasing Agent and provincial boards to which consignments of carabao and other draft animals may be made in accordance with section two of this Act are hereby authorized to sell such animals at public auction or in such other manner as may be authorized by resolution of the Commission to farmers and other persons requiring and needing them to perform work or labor on the property of the buyers or on property leased, hired, or occupied by them, or in or about a business owned, managed, or conducted by them. In case of the sale of cattle under this Act a certificate of purchase of the cattle, with the proper descriptions, shall be issued to such purchaser of such cattle by the Insular Purchasing Agent or the provincial treasurer for the provincial board, in the form and containing details to be set forth in regulations of the Civil Governor to accord, so far as may be, with certificates of purchase required by law for private sales of carabao: Provided, however, That no stamp for such sale shall be required. SEC. 4. Where practicable, reasonable notice of all sales of carabao and other draft animals shall be given by the Insular Purchasing Agent or the provincial board, as the case may be, and if at the time and place of sale more than one purchaser is present the privilege of choice shall be put up at auction and awarded to the person bidding the highest sum therefor, in addition to the minimum price for each carabao purchased, which minimum price is hereby fixed at seventy pesos, Philippines currency, for cash sales, and ninety-three pesos, Philippines currency, for part cash and part credit sales as hereafter defined, or the equivalent of these prices in Mexican or Spanish-Filipino currency at the official rate. SEC. 5. All animals provided to be sold by this Act shall be sold either for cash or one-third cash, one third in one year from date of sale, and one-third in two years from date of sale, without interest, or upon such other terms as may be fixed by resolution of the Commission: Provided, That all deferred payments shall be secured by pledge, mortgage, or personal guaranty satisfactory to the provincial board or the Insular Purchasing Agent, as the case may be: And provided further, That any part of the purchase money unpaid shall constitute a preferred lien on the animals sold, in favor of the Insular Government as against all persons whomsoever: And provided further, That where a purchaser on credit shall desire to anticipate the second installment by payment of the entire price in one year he shall be allowed to satisfy the debt by a total payment of eighty-one pesos, Philippines currency, instead of ninety-three pesos, as above provided. SEC. 6. The Insular Purchasing Agent shall keep a true and correct account of all sales made by him under the terms of this Act, together with the consecutive numbers and brands of the animals sold, |