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QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF LAWS AND RESOLUTIONS.

[Extract from Minutes of Proceedings, October 24, 1900.]

On motion of Commissioner Moses, resolved that a pamphlet in an edition of fifteen hundred copies be issued quarterly containing in English and Spanish the laws passed by the commission, and such other material as may be designated for publication by the commission, such pamphlet to be entitled "Public Laws and Resolutions passed by the United States Philippine Commission during the quarter ending

CONTENTS.

Announcement...

The President's instructions to the Commission..

Order appointing civil governor

Errata....

[No. 1.] An act appropriating two million dollars ($2,000,000.00) Mexican

to be used in the construction and repair of highways and bridges in the

Philippine Islands..

[No. 2.] An act appropriating five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) Mexican for

the purpose of making a survey to ascertain the most advantageous route for

a railroad into the mountains of Benguet, island of Luzon, and the probable

cost thereof..

[No. 3.] An act appropriating two thousand six hundred and seventeen dollars

and ninety-six cents ($2,617.96) in the money of the United States for the

purpose of paying the salary and expenses of Fred W. Atkinson for the

period from May 5 to September 1, 1900

[No. 4.] An act appropriating one hundred dollars ($100.00) in the money of

the United States for the purpose of paying the salary of the property clerk

in the department of education for the period of one month from September

8 to October 8, 1900

[No. 5.] An act for the establishment and maintenance of an efficient and hon-

est civil service in the Philippine Islands.....

[No. 6.] An act prescribing the order of procedure by the commission in the

enactment of laws..

[No. 7.] An act for the establishment of a bureau of statistics for the Philip-

pine Islands....

[No. 8.] An act appropriating twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) in pay-

ment of small expenses incurred by the War Department of the United States

for the Philippine Islands......

[No. 9.] An act providing for an allowance in estimating and assessing dutia-

ble goods in case of loss or destruction of the same....

[No. 10.] An act appropriating fifteen hundred dollars Mexican to be paid to

the widow of Salvador de los Reyes, vice-president of Santa Cruz, province

of Laguna de Bay.

[No. 11.] An act appropriating sundry sums to pay the expenses of the depart-

ment of education incurred prior to the first of September..

[No. 12.] An act prescribing the method to be adopted by the insular treas-

urer in keeping and rendering accounts of his receipts and disbursements...

[No. 13.] An act appropriating three hundred and eighty-seven thousand and

sixty-four dollars and thirty-three cents Mexican for the payment of sun-

dry expenses incurred for the benefit of the insular government for the

month of September, 1900

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