E.-Statement of extraordinary expenses, fiscal year 1902, and estimate of extraordinary expenses, fiscal year 1903.

Combined totals of ordinary and extraordinary expenses for the fiscal year 1902, and esti

mate of same for fiscal year 1903.

INVENTORY OF LANDS, BUILDINGS, AND OTHER REAL PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF MANILA, JUNE 30, 1902.

Inventory of lands, buildings, and other real property of the city of Manila, June 30, 1902—

Continued.

Inventory of lands, buildings, and other real property of the city of Manila, June 30, 1902—

Continued.

Police department.

Inventory of personal property of the city of Manila for quarter ending June 30, 1902.

Municipal board..

Fire department....

City assessor and collector

School department.

Law department

Department of engineering and public works

16, 401.95

2,954.66 20, 509.62 6, 139.79 86, 905. 32

Department of buildings and illumination...

3, 530. 81

Water supply department (original statement attached)

54, 345. 49

Total....

209, 119.58

Inventory of public civil property under control of the department of engineering and

public works, and present worth of same.

SPECIAL REPORT OF THE COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS FOR THE PHILIPPINE ARCH.
IPELAGO, COVERING THE PERIOD FROM JUNE 1, 1901, TO SEPTEMBER 1, 1902.

OFFICE OF THE COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS
FOR THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO,
Manila, October 8, 1902.

SIR: In accordance with your instructions of September 29, 1902, I have the honor to submit herewith a report of the operations of the Philippine customs service from June 1, 1901, to September 1, 1902.

The limited time available for the preparation of this data will necessarily make the report very brief and principally statistical in its nature.

Very respectfully,

Hon. HENRY C. IDE,

W. MORGAN SHUSTER,

Collector of Customs for the Philippine Archipelago.

Secretary of Finance and Justice, Philippine Commission, Manila, P. I.

REPORT.

The customs service of the Philippine Archipelago is charged with the collection of the customs revenue, the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion and general immigration laws of the islands, and with certain limited quasi-consular duties.

A number of important laws regulating the customs service have been passed during the period covered by this report.

On September 17, 1901, the Philippine Commission passed "An act to revise and amend the tariff laws of the Philippine Archipelago," No. 230, known as the “tariff revision law of 1901." This law was confirmed and enacted by Congress on March 8, 1902.

The tariff revision law has done much to simplify and expedite the collection of the customs revenues and no serious grounds for complaint against its schedules have yet been found.

On February 6, 1902, the Philippine Commission passed “An act to constitute the customs service of the Philippine Archipelago and to provide for the administration thereof," known as "The Philippine customs administrative act."

This law has rendered possible an effective organization of the customs service of these islands, and as its provisions have gradually become known they have received the hearty compliance of the public having business with the different customs offices of this archipelago.

This act is largely modeled upon the principles of the customs administration which prevail in the United States, though many departures in minor respects have been made necessary by the different conditions here.

On March 3, 1902, the Philippine Commission passed "An act to reorganize the personnel of the Philippine customs service." This law repealed all former acts or orders providing for customs employees, and gave uniformity to classifications, grades, and compensation.

Since the new tariff went into effect several laws relating to the customs service, in addition to those above mentioned, have been passed, among them act No. 265, "Requiring persons whom the collector of customs has reasonable grounds for believing guilty of aiding insurrection seeking to land in the Philippines to take an oath of allegiance."

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PORT OF MANILA.

During the past year numerous changes have been made in the business methods of the Manila custom-house, principal among them being the adoption of the United States system of appraisers' returns, the establishment of an insular surveyor's office, the regulation and limitation of overtime work by customs employees, the complete separation of the cashiers' and bookkeepers' divisions, and the institution of the usual checks on one division by another.

The duties and responsibilities of each class of customs employees have been carefully defined, and complete series of instructions, general and special, have been issued on all questions arising up to the present time.

PORT OF ILOILO.

The general trade conditions at the port of Iloilo have been satisfactory during the past year, though the receipts for the last fiscal year fall considerably below those of the preceding one.

The equipment for customs work is good, except for the state of the lower arm of the inner harbor or river, where, from time to time, a large proportion of entering vessels become stuck in the mud and are delayed until they can be pulled off at high tide. A complete survey of the harbor has just been completed by the U. S. Army engineer officer in charge, whose plan contemplates the expenditure of $1,200,000 during the next five or six years. A part of the plan covers the dredging of 1,650,000

cubic yards of mud. A preliminary estimate of the work which is needed at once in order to keep the river open to foreign vessels includes the purchase of a suction dredge and three scows and the dredging of 300,000 cubic yards, amounting in all to about $127,500.

In view of the undoubted injury which is being done the business interests of Iloilo by these poor harbor facilities, it is recommended that an early appropriation be made to cover the preliminary work above outlined, and that hereafter a certain percentage of the customs receipts of the port be appropriated for continuing the harbor improvement in accordance with a definite plan.

PORT OF CEBU.

The foreign trade of the port of Cebu has steadily increased for the past three years, and is in a very flourishing condition.

The customs equipment and facilities are, however, in a lamentably poor state, and the need of a substantial appropriation for harbor improvements, docks, landing piers, and a custom-house is more pressing than at any other port in the archipelago. Several harbor surveys have been made and plans submitted for the betterment of the port, and as it is understood the matter of an appropriation and the adoption of plans is now before the Philippine Commission, no further recommendation is made than that the port of Cebu receive the first available appropriation for this kind of work.

PORT OF JOLO.

The business of the port of Jolo has fallen off somewhat during the past year, due partially to the advantage being taken of the Moro "free-entry law." This privilege, though doubtless made necessary by conditions existing during the time it was effective, was a serious drawback to regular importations in the Jolo Archipelago. Jolo is essentially a transshipment port, only a small portion of the imports being consumed, and a similar portion of the exports originating, in its immediate neighborhood. This port is the natural outlet for the products from the islands of the Jolo Archipelago.

There is urgent need of a new custom-house at Jolo. The present offices are in a rented building, which is old, beyond permanent repair, small, and unsafe for keeping Government records, goods, or money. It is inconveniently located with respect to the water front, which fact entails a serious loss of time to importers and exporters, especially at a transshipment port. It is earnestly recommended that the recently presented plan of this office for a new custom-house at Jolo be approved. The port of Siassi was formerly a subport of entry, under the immediate supervision of the collector of customs at Jolo, but on June 1, 1902, it was discontinued as such, in view of the very limited amount of foreign imports and exports which passed over its wharves. It is now a coastwise port and the headquarters of the Siassi coast inspection district.

PORT OF ZAMBOANGA.

Zamboanga is the sister port of Jolo, though somewhat inferior in its volume of trade. It is, like Jolo, a transshipment port, and has shown a remarkable increase in imports and exports during the past year. Zamboanga is the port of shipment for the products of southern and southeastern Mindanao.

PORT OF APARRI.

On June 1, 1902, the former coastwise port of Aparri, in northern Luzon, was tentatively opened as a port of entry, and although as yet no appreciable foreign trade has visited there, the prospects for the future development of the port are extremely good.

COASTWISE PORTS.

There are at present 156 ports open to the Philippine coastwise trade, of which 16 are headquarters of coast inspection districts.

The entire coast line of the archipelago has been divided into twenty coast inspection districts, each in charge of a customs officer, who is required to make the tour of his district, visiting all the ports as often as transportation facilities will permit. In this way a more or less complete supervision of the coast line and of local trade is maintained.

The greatest difficulty encountered by customs officers in this work is the lack of suitable water transportation, travel by land being practically impossible.