of the various departments of the Insular and Provincial Governments, including all teachers in the public schools, stationed outside of the city of Manila, with food supplies and other necessaries of life at reasonable prices.

SEC. 2. The Chief of Philippines Constabulary is hereby authorized and directed to take the control and management of such supply store and of the sale and delivery of supplies to the officials, employés and servants aforesaid, and Act No. 175 is so amended as to impose these duties upon him. He is further authorized and empowered to employ such of the subordinate officers and employés of the Philippines Constabulary as, in his judgment, shall be necessary to make effective the provisions of this act, and to make the necessary regulations to prevent abuse of the privileges conferred by this act and their extension to persons not authorized.

SEC. 3. The Chief of Philippines Constabulary, in conjunction with the Insular Purchasing Agent, is empowered to procure necessary and suitable offices and warehouses in the City of Manila for the accommodation, handling and shipping of supplies made necessary under the provisions of this act. If possible, government buildings will be utilized, but if necessary, they are authorized to rent private property for this purpose. The Chief of Philippines Constabulary is also authorized to establish branch supply stores outside the city of Manila, whenever, in his judgment, it is necessary or desirable so to do in order to most efficiently carry out the provisions of this act, using government buildings for that purpose whenever available and renting buildings belonging to private persons when necessary.

SEC. 4. The Chief of Philippines Constabulary is hereby authorized to make sales from time to time to the officials, employés and servants, described in section 1 hereof, of such goods and supplies, solely for their personal use, and any sale or other disposition of such supplies by such officials, employés or servants, is hereby forbidden. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Philippines Constabulary, whenever it comes to his knowledge that such supplies have been sold or otherwise disposed of by any such officer, employé or servant, to refuse to make further sales to him or to allow him any of the benefits of this act.

SEC. 5. All goods and supplies required by the Chief of Philippines Constabulary, under the provisions of this act, shall be purchased by the Insular Purchasing Agent, pursuant to the provisions and under the limitations of Act No. 146, upon the requisition of the Chief of Philippines Constabulary; provided, that the Insular Purchasing Agent is hereby also authorized to purchase from the Chief Quartermaster and Chief Commissary, Division of the Philippines, such supplies as they are authorized to sell and as, in the judgment of the Chief of Philippines Constabulary, may be necessary or desirable for the supply store upon such terms as may be mutually agreed on between the Purchasing Agent and the said military officials.

SEC. 6. The Chief of Philippines Constabulary is hereby directed to make sales to the officials and other persons entitled to purchase hereunder, only for cash, and will charge therefor the actual cost price of such goods and supplies, with twenty per cent. added to cover cost of handling and transportation. He will make quarterly reports of his operations hereunder to the Secretary of Commerce and Police, together with proper estimates of funds necessary for the proper carrying on of the said supply store. He is authorized to employ in carrying out

the provisions of this act the following clerical force: One chief clerk, (commissary) class 6; two clerks (one sales and one book-keeper), class A; two clerks (one packer and one checker), class C; one teamster, class D; all to be selected under the provisions of the Civil Service Act, and such laborers, class K, as may be necessary.

SEC. 7. All moneys derived from the sale of food supplies and other necessaries of life, as herein provided, shall revert to the appropriation out of which such supplies were purchased, and all deposits in the Treasury on this account shall be credited as repayments to the said appropriations on the books of the Auditor. Every officer engaged under this act, unless he be an officer of the regular army of the United States, who shall receive supplies purchased under this act, and shall sell the same, receiving the proceeds thereof, shall be required to give bond in an amount to be determined by the Civil Governor of the Islands with surety satisfactory to him.

SEC. 8. The Chief of Philippines Constabulary and his duly authorized agents shall render monthly accounts of all their transactions in the form and manner prescribed by the Auditor, and shall deposit the proceeds of all sales in the Insular Treasury at least once each month. The property accountability created by the provisions of this act shall be settled and adjusted in accordance with the provisions of Act No. 215 relating thereto.

SEC. 9. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section 2 of "An Act Prescribing the Order of Procedure by the Commission in the Enactment of Laws," passed September 26, 1900. SEC. 10. This act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, September 27, 1901.

[No. 243.]

AN ACT granting the right to use public land upon the Luneta in the city of Manila upon which to erect a statue to José Rizal, from a fund to be raised by public subscriptions, and prescribing as a condition the method by which such subscription shall be collected and disbursed.

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

Whereas, It has been proposed that a monument shall be erected to José Rizal, the Philippine patriot writer and poet, upon the Luneta in the city of Manila, and that the expense of the construction and erection of such monument shall be defrayed from a fund raised by public subscription, and

Whereas, It is necessary to the execution of this proposal that there should be a grant by constituted authority of the right to erect the monument upon the public land known as the Luneta. Now therefore,

SECTION 1. The Municipal Board of the city of Manila, with the concurrence of the Advisory Board, is hereby authorized to grant permission to the committee hereafter constituted to erect the monument above mentioned upon any place upon the Luneta which may be agreed upon by the Municipal Board, the Advisory Board and the committee hereafter constituted, with the approval of the Civil Governor, on 10890-01- -44

condition that the committee in charge of raising the fund and constructing the monument, and the method of raising subscriptions and disbursing the funds, shall be as hereafter provided.

SEC. 2. The committee for raising the funds by subscription for causing the erection of the monument and the expenditure of the funds shall be Pascual Poblete, Paciano Rizal, Juan Tuason, Teodoro R. Yangco, Mariano Limjap, Maximino Paterno, Ramon Genato, Tomas G. del Rosario, Dr. Ariston Bautista.

SEC. 3. The committee shall elect a chairman and a secretary and shall certify its action in this respect to the Insular Auditor and to the Insular Treasurer. Vacancies in the committee occurring by resignation or death shall be filled by the committee, with the approval of the Civil Governor.

SEC. 4. Subscriptions shall be collected by the committee or by agents regularly appointed by the committee, whose authority to collect subscriptions shall be evidenced by the possession of receipt-books to be prepared and issued by the Insular Treasury to the persons so authorized. It shall be the duty of the person so authorized to give a receipt to the subscriber for the amount collected, and to deposit the money collected with the Insular Treasurer at the Intendencia Building upon the day following the collection, where the collection shall be made in Manila, and as soon as practicable when collections are made outside of Manila. The Insular Treasurer shall issue a special receipt for each deposit so made, which receipt shall be invalid without the countersignature of the Insular Auditor. The Insular Auditor shall keep an account of the money thus deposited in the Treasury. The collector shall furnish to the Treasurer a list of the contributors, which list shall be made public, through the press or otherwise, at the close of each week.

SEC. 5. The funds thus collected shall be expended by the committee in any way which will contribute to the object of the subscription, to-wit:--the erection of a suitable monument, and this may include the regular payment of collection agents upon a percentage or per diem basis, as may seem wise to the committee. The members of the committee shall serve without compensation. The committee shall have power to offer prizes for designs for a suitable monument and to employ competent artists and sculptors to select the most appropriate design. The committee shall have charge of any ceremonies attending the laying of the corner-stone of the monument or its unveiling, subject to the approval of the Civil Governor.

SEC. 6. The funds collected in the Insular Treasury, a report of which shall be made monthly by the joint report of the Insular Treasurer and Auditor to the committee, shall be disbursed upon order of the committee, evidenced by warrant of the president, countersigned by the secretary of the committee, and accompanied by an itemized statement of the purposes for which the money was disbursed. The accounts shall be audited by the Insular Auditor quarterly and a public statement made by the Auditor of the result of his auditing. Should any surplus fund remain after the payment of all the expenses of the erection of the monument, including the payment of the sculptor and incidental expenses, the committee shall have power to devote the surplus to any charitable, educational or other public purpose which it may deem wise and proper.

SEC. 7. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this

bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section 2 of "An Act Prescribing the Order of Procedure by the Com mission in the Enactment of Laws," passed September 26, 1900. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, September 28, 1901.

[No. 244.]

AN ACT authorizing the purchase of a tract of land for provincial, insular and military purposes in Tacloban, Leyte.

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

SECTION 1. The Provincial Board of Leyte is hereby authorized to expend from the Provincial Treasury the sum of eleven thousand and thirty dollars ($11,030) Mexican to purchase a tract of land in Tacloban lying northeast of the street known as "Gran Capitan," for provincial purposes.

SEC. 2. The Civil Governor is hereby authorized to purchase for the Insular Government for three thousand, three hundred and seventy dollars ($3,370), Mexican, six lots, numbered 14, 15 (two lots), 16, 17, 18 and 19, as shown on the plat on file with the Commission, prepared under the direction of the Governor and Treasurer of Leyte, these lots also being northeast of the street known as "Gran Capitan;" and the sum of three thousand, three hundred and seventy dollars ($3,370), Mexican, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of making the purchase hereby authorized. The lots thus purchased for the Insular Government shall be held for the uses of that Government, or as a military reservation, or to be otherwise disposed of hereafter as may seem desirable.

SEC. 3. The purchase shall not be completed on behalf of the Insular Government until the Provincial Fiscal of the Province of Leyte, shall examine the titles to the property held by the proposed vendors and shall make a certificate that such titles are good, to be approved by the Attorney-General, to the Civil Governor.

SEC. 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with Section 2 of "An Act Prescribing the Order of Procedure by the Commission in the Enactment of Laws," passed September 26, 1900. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, September 30, 1901.

[No. 245.]

AN ACT to amend section 19 of Act No. 83, providing for the organization of Provincial Governments.

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

SECTION 1. Section 19 of Act No. 83 (the Provincial Government

Act) is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following is substituted as Section 19 of said Act:

"Should the Civil Governor have reason to believe that any provincial officer is guilty of disloyalty, dishonesty, oppression or misconduct in office, he may suspend him from the discharge of the duties of his office, and, after due notice to the suspended officer, shall investigate the cause of suspension and either remove him, with the advice and consent of the Commission, from office, or reinstate him, as the circumstances may require; pending the suspension of the provincial officer the Civil Governor shall have the power temporarily to appoint a person who shall in the interim discharge the duties of the suspended officer, and in case the suspended officer is a treasurer, to make such provision with respect to the bond of the temporary appointee as may to him seem wise. The temporary appointee shall receive the same compensation as is given by law to the permanent appointee, to be paid from the provincial treasury as other salaries. In case the suspension results in a removal, the removed appointee shall not receive any compensation from and after the date of his suspension. Should he be reinstated, it shall be in the discretion of the Civil Governor to direct that his compensation, during the period of his suspension, shall be withheld, or paid from the Provincial Treasury. Suspension or removal under this section shall not prevent the institution of criminal proceedings against the person suspended or removed. Every provincial officer shall be subject to prosecution, for a criminal act committed by him, in courts of the First Instance, in the same manner as any other person.

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with Section 2 of "An Act Prescribing the Order of Procedure by the Commission in the Enactment of Laws," passed September 26, 1900.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, September 30, 1901.

[No. 246.]

AN ACT amending in several particulars Act No. 185, which regulates the salaries of officers and employés in the municipal service of Manila.

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

SECTION 1. Act No. 185, entitled, "An Act Regulating the Salaries of Officers and Employés in the Municipal Service of Manila,” is hereby amended, by adding an additional section, which shall read as follows:

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OFFICE OF THE CITY SUPERINTENDENT, UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF

PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

There may be employed in the office of the City Superintendent, under the Department of Public Instruction, the following employés: One chief clerk, class 7; one assistant clerk, class 9; one property clerk, class 9; one clerk, class G; one janitor and messenger, class K; at an annual compensation of one hundred and twenty dollars ($120).”