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No. 425. An act authorizing provincial boards to fix the number and dates of

conventions to be held in each year in the provincial capital by the

municipal presidentes of their respective provinces...

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No. 426.

No. 427.

An act increasing the salary of the fiscal of the province of Marin-

duque from $800 to $1,000, in money of the United States....

An act authorizing the loan of $7,050, in local currency, to the prov-
ince of Neuva Ecija...

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No. 428.

An act authorizing the loan of $6,000, in local currency, to the prov-

ince of Samar..

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No. 429.

An act making temporary provisions for the care of invalid civil

employees at Baguio, in the province of Benguet, pending the estab-

ment of a government sanitarium.

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No. 430. An act appropriating the sum of $2,823,705.28, in money of the

United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in part

compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903,

and for other purposes

No. 431. An act providing for the incorporation of the barrio of Salinas, now
a part of the municipality of Sariaya, province of Tayabas, into the
municipality of Lucena.

No. 432. An act removing the political disabilities of Pedro Pastor and author-
izing payment for the service heretofore rendered by him as clerk
of the court of first instance in the province of Batangas..

An act changing the name of the municipality of Nagaba, in the

province of Iloilo, to that of Jordan.....

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No. 433.

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No. 434.

An act extending the time for the payment of the land tax and of

the cedula tax for the year 1902....

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No. 435.

An act providing that officials and employees of the provincial gov-

ernment of Samar shall not come within the provisions of the civil-

service act until March 1, 1903.

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No. 436. An act amending act No. 341, annexing certain territory to the city
of Manila, so as to provide for the valuation of real estate in the
annexed territory, and prescribing the time and method of com-
pleting such valuation and collection of taxes..

No. 437. An act appropriating the sum of $22,934.45, in money of the United

States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for certain expenses

of the insular government during the fiscal year ending June 30,

1903, and other designated periods...

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....
No. 439. An act providing for the payment of lawyers appointed by the supreme
court to examine candidates for admission to the bar..
No. 440. An act amending General Orders, No. 58, office of the military gov-
ernor, series of 1900, 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......

No. 441. An act amending act No. 422, 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 four-

teenth judicial district.

No. 442. An act amending act No. 390 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.

No. 443. An act authorizing the provincial board of any province organized

under "the provincial government act" to use portions of the pro-

vincial funds in certain cases for the construction and repair of roads

and bridges within the inhabited parts of the municipalities..

No. 444. An act creating the office of consulting engineer to the Commission..

No. 445. An act providing for the establishment of civil governments in the

settlements of the non-Christian tribes of the province of Abra..........

No. 446. An act amending section 40 of "the Municipal Code" by authorizing

the expenditure of municipal funds for the support of two persons

while receiving training for positions as public school teachers in

the municipality..

No. 447. An act amending the Manila charter by increasing the number of city

districts to 13 and providing for the representation of the districts

of Santa Ana and Pandacan upon the advisory board of the city of

Manila..

No. 448. An act so amending act No. 80 that the provisions thereof relating to

leaves of absence shall be applicable to heads of bureaus and pro-

vincial officers, and that the legal representatives of civil servants

dying in the civil service shall be entitled to compensation for the

earned leaves of absence to the credit of the deceased..

No. 449. An act amending act No. 413, entitled "An act providing for the con-

trol and management of provincial jails and of the prisoners therein,'

so as to allow provincial boards, when necessary, to make contracts

for feeding prisoners confined in the provincial jail at a rate exceed-

ing 20 cents, local currency, per diem..

No. 450. An act making the province of Neuva Vizcaya a separate judicial dis-

trict and authorizing the governor to perform the duties of judge of

the court of first instance therein..

No. 451. An act abolishing the use of the garrote as a means of executing

criminals hereafter condemned to death and substituting in place

thereof execution by hanging.

No. 452. An act providing for an examination of the collection accounts of clerks

of the courts of first instance and a certificate of their correctness,

and a certificate as to the correctness of pay rolls and vouchers for

disbursements of the courts of first instance..

No. 453. An act providing for the publication by the insular government of an

official gazette under the general direction of the department of

public instruction....

No. 454. An act amending act No. 238, fixing the limits of Cavite Harbor and

providing for the police jurisdiction thereof and for the anchorage

of vessels therein

No. 455. An act for the relief of W. S. Conrow, treasurer of the province of

Leyte..

No. 456. An act amending rule 50 of section 1 of act No. 90, relative to the man-

ner in which the treasurer of the archipelago shall keep his accounts

and render the same to the Secretary of War, and repealing that

part of section 3 of act No. 430 which prohibits the making of con-

tracts payable only in United States currency..

No. 457. An act providing for the exemption of the lands in the province of

Batangas from payment of the land tax for the year 1902, and

extending the date for the appraisement and assessment of land in

said province for one year.........

No. 458. An act amending act No. 103, extending the provisions of "The pro-

vincial-government act" to the province of Tayabas..

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No. 459. An act amending sections 4 and 12 of act No. 337, organizing the prov-
ince of Nueva Vizcaya, and section 5 of act No. 422, organizing the
province of Paragua...

No. 460. An act appropriating $10,000 in money of the United States, or so

much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Auditor for the

Philippine Archipelago to prepare for the Secretary of War for

transmittal to Congress at its ensuing regular session special detailed

reports of the receipts and expenditures of the government of the

archipelago for the fiscal year 1902.

No. 461. An act amending act No. 175, entitled "An act providing for the

organization and government of the insular constabulary, and for

the inspection of the municipal police," so as to provide for the

maintenance of the present telegraphic system in the archipelago,

so far as may be desirable and practicable,

No. 462. An act changing the title of "Department of Posts to "Bureau of

Posts," and the title of "Director-General of Posts" to Director

of Posts"

No. 463. An act authorizing provincial boards, in their discretion, to extend the

time for the payment of the land tax for the year 1902 to a date not

later than January 1, 1903....

No. 464.

No. 465.

Manila..

An act vesting the insular treasurer with power to increase or diminish

the bonds of public officials, with the approval of the civil governor.

An act amending act No. 157, providing for the establishment of a

board of health for the Philippine Islands, by striking out the pro-

vision that the sanitary engineer shall be the city engineer of

No. 466. An act amending act No. 358, providing for a per diem for traveling

examiners of the Treasurer and Auditor for the Philippine Archi-

pelago, by requiring such per diem to be paid from provincial funds

when an examiner or deputy of the insular treasurer is acting as a

provincial treasurer..

No. 467. An act to provide for taking a census of the Philippine Islands..

No. 468. An act authorizing the provincial board of the province of Capiz to

divert $10,000, local currency, of the funds loaned to that province

by the insular government by virtue of act No. 196, as loans to the

municipalities of the province for the prevention and suppression

of the cholera epidemic.

No. 469. An act authorizing provincial boards to hear and determine contro-

versies arising in municipalities by reason of municipal ordinances

regulating religious processions or closing municipal cemeteries...

No. 470. An act authorizing the loan of $10,000 in money of the United States

or its equivalent in local currency at the authorized ratio to the

province of Batangas..

No. 471. An act authorizing the loan of $50,000, local currency, to the prov-

ince of Iloilo, to enable the provincial board to make loans to the

various municipalities of the province for the suppression of

cholera and for the relief of the inhabitants from starvation and

suffering...

No. 472. An act repealing section 1 of act No. 251, prohibiting the sale of

intoxicating beverages in the municipality of Iligan, province of

Misamis

No. 473. An act authorizing the loan of the equivalent in local currency, at

the authorized ratio, of $2,500 in money of the United States to

the province of Marinduque out of the treasury of the Philippine

Archipelago, for the benefit of the island of Mindoro

No. 475.

No. 474. An act providing for the stamping of counterfeit coin in such manner

that it shall not be available for circulation..

An act amending section 9 of "the provincial-government act," as

amended by paragraph 4 of section 1 of act No. 133, by striking out

from paragraph (a) of said section 9 the words "the provincial

treasurer shall forward to the insular auditor a true copy of the

tax lists of this province",

No. 476. An act amending act No. 183, entitled "An act to incorporate the

city of Manila," and amending act No. 185, entitled "An act regu-

lating the salaries of officers and employees in the municipal serv-

ice of Manila," by increasing the number of assistants in the office

of the prosecuting attorney of Manila from three to four, and by

increasing the salary of the prosecuting attorney from $3,500 to

$4,500 and fixing the salaries of the four assistants

No. 477. An act to repeal acts Nos. 180, 232, and 373, amendatory of act No.

74, establishing a department of public instruction, to repeal a cer-

tain paragraph in act No. 430 relating to night schools, and to

amend act No. 74 by providing for the division of the archipelago

into 36 school divisions, to amend section 13 of "the provincial-

government act" No. 83, as amended, and for other purposes.....

No. 478. An act fixing the salaries of the presidents of the provincial boards

of health of Nueva Vizcaya and Samar..

No. 479. An act authorizing collectors of customs in the Philippine Archipelago

to receive certain accepted or certified checks and certain bank

notes in payment of customs duties

An act to punish unlawful maintenance of cockfighting and cockpits,

attendance upon the same, and gambling in a cockpit..

An act so amending section 17 of act No. 422, providing for the

organization of a provincial government in the province of Paragua

and defining the limits of that province, as to extend for three

months the periods of time named in said section..

No. 480.

No. 481.

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No. 482.

An act authorizing provincial boards to appropriate provincial funds

for the purchase of draft animals for breeding purposes.

An act appropriating the sum of $6,000 local currency for repairing

the wharf at Jolo..

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No. 483.

No. 484.

An act providing for the granting of a franchise to construct an elec-

tric street railway on the streets of Manila and its suburbs and a

franchise to construct, maintain, and operate an electric light, heat,

and power system in the city of Manila and its suburbs, after

competitive bidding..

No. 485. An act authorizing the provincial board of Ilocos Norte to divert

$2,500 local currency of provincial funds as loans to municipalities

of that province to relieve the inhabitants thereof suffering from

hunger

No. 486. An act to amend act No. 467, entitled "An act to provide for taking

a census of the Philippine Islands"

No. 487. An act amending act No. 82, entitled "The municipal code," and act

No. 303 amendatory thereof..

No. 488.

An act making an appropriaton of the sum of $65,965.65 in local

currency for expenditure in the discretion of the civil governor in

the provinces of Batangas and La Laguna and the island of Min-

doro, and authorizing the sale, rental, or distribution of articles

purchased thereunder, and for other purposes

No. 489. An act appropriating the sum of $784 local currency for Claro

Jaramillo, for compensation for services rendered by him from

May 1, 1898, to and including June 30, 1899, in caring for the light-

house at Cape Melville..

No. 490. An act appropriating the sum of $3,137,542.33 in money of the

United States, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in part

compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903,

and for other purposes

No. 491. An act appropriating the sum of $163.33 United States currency, pay-

able in local currency at the authorized rate of exchange at the

time of payment, to Jacob C. Mulder, in lieu of salary from Feb-

ruary 1, to March 19, 1902, while awaiting transportation in the

United States to Manila

No. 492. An act authorizing the provincial treasurer of Albay to pay the sum

of $80 local currency for hire of a launch in May, 1902, to trans-

port the provincial treasurer and his deputy from Legaspi to Tabaco

to inspect the suboffice of Virac....

No. 493. An act making the provisions of act No. 449 retroactive so as to apply

to contracts for feeding prisoners in provincial jails, entered into

prior to the passage of act No. 449...

No. 494. An act authorizing the collector of customs for the Philippine Archi-

pelago to grant a temporary license to the vessel San Nicolas, now

in the harbor of Manila loaded with rice, to proceed to the province

of Ambos Camarines and there to discharge said rice, take on a

cargo, and return to Manila..

No. 495. An act appropriating the sum of $2,000,000 local currency for expenses

in connection with the purchase and distribution of rice to inhabit-

ants of the Philippine Islands in provinces suffering from scarcity

of food, and for other purposes

No. 496. An act to provide for the adjudication and registration of titles to

lands in the Philippine Islands

No. 497. An act to repeal all laws imposing a tax on selaries.

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No. 498. An act amending act No. 145, authorizing the appointment of dis-

bursing clerk in the various civil bureaus and departments

No. 499. An act annex the province of Marinduque to the province of

Tayabas, amding act No. 103, entitled "An act extending the

provisions of the provincial government act to the province of

Tayabas," and repealing act No. 125 and all amendments thereto.

No. 500. An act providing for the organization of a provincial government in

the island of Mindoro, defining the limits of that province, and

repealing act 423, entitled “An act extending the provisions of the

provincial government act and its amendments to the island of

Mindoro and incorporating that island with the province of

Marinduque"

No. 501. 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 No. 140..

No. 502. An act amending "the municipal code" by authorizing the civil

governor to postpone general municipal elections under certain

circumstances

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No. 503.

An act amending act No. 183, entitled "An act to incorporate the

city of Manila"

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No. 504.

An act amending act No. 145, 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"

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No. 505.

An act to repeal section 8 of act No. 247, entitled "An act providing

for the establishment of a civil hospital at Manila"

No. 506. An act providing for a loan of $6,000, local currency, to the province

of Paragua

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No. 507.

An act amending act No. 467, entitled "An act to provide for taking

a census of the Philippine Islands'

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No. 508. An act amending act No. 450, making the province of Nueva Viz-

caya a separate judicial district, and for other purposes..

No. 509. An act authorizing the provincial board of the province of Sorsogon

to expend from the provincial treasury the sum of $3,500, local

currency, for rice for the support of volunteers engaged in sup-

pressing ladronism during March, April, and May, 1902.

No. 510. An act authorizing the provincial board of the province of Albay to

pay the sum of $350, United States currency, for the hire of a

launch in July, 1902, to enable the provincial governor to visit the

island of Catanduanes..

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No. 512.

No. 511.

An act transferring the Agricultural College in the island of Negros

from the bureau of education to that of agriculture, and making

an appropriation for the establishing and carrying on of same and

of an experiment station

An act fixing the salaries and wages of officers and crews of the

coast-guard fleet...

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No. 513.

No. 514.

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An act amending rule 48 of act No. 90..

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 St.

Louis, in the United States, in 1904.

No. 515. An act to amend act No. 80, entitled An act to regulate the hours

of labor, leaves of absence, and transportation of appointees under

the Philippine civil service"

No. 516. An act authorizing the removal of prisoners from the provincial jail

of Rizal to Bilibid prison on account of the unhealthfulness and

insecurity of the provincial jail of Rizal

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No. 517. An act to provide against the danger of famine in the provinces of

the Philippine Archipelago.....

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No. 518. An act defining highway robbery or brigandage, and providing for

the punishment therefor

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No. 519. An act defining vagrancy and providing for punishment therefor ...

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