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[ Act No. 1955, May 20, 1909 ]

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUNDRY EXPENSES OF THE AMENDING INSULAR GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TEN, AND OTHER DESIGNATED PERIODS.

By authority of the United Slates, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:

SECTION 1. The following sums, or so much thereof as may be respectively necessary, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in compensation for the service of the Insular Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, unless otherwise stated.
EXECUTIVE.

For salaries as follows: Governor-General, at thirty thousand pesos per annum; Secretary of the Interior, at twenty-one thousand pesos per annum ; Secretary of Commerce and Police, at twenty-one thousand pesos per annum; Secretary of Finance and Justice, at twenty-one, thousand pesos per annum; Secretary of Public Instruction, at twenty-one thousand pesos per annum; one Secretary of Department newly created, at twenty-one thousand pesos per annum; private secretary to the Governor-General, at five thousand pesos per annum; live private secretaries, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum each : one hundred and sixty-four thousand pesos.

LEGISLATIVE.

PHILIPPINE  MISSION.

For salaries of the President and four Commissioners, at ten thousand pesos per annum each; four Commissioners, not secretaries of the President and four Commissioners, at ten Pesos per annum each; four Commissioners, not secretaries of departments, at fifteen thousand pesos per annum eaeh: Provided, That should the President of the United States create a new executive department, the Commissioner who is appointed Secretary shall receive, as Commissioner, a salary not to exceed ten thousand pesos per annum; Secretary of the Commission, at six thousand pesos per annum; four private secretaries, at two thousand, eight hundred pesos per annum each; one hundred and twenty-seven thousand two hundred pesos.

For salary of the Speaker of the Assembly, at sixteen thousand pesos per annum; per diems of thirty pesos each for Delegates; Secretary of the Assembly, six thousand pesos per annum: Provided, That when a Delegate is selected for this ollice he shall receive two thousand pesos per annum in addition to his per diems as Delegate; private secretary'to the Speaker, three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; per diems of thirty pesos each to Delegates who are members of the Joint Committee of the Legislature, whose number shall be fixed by the President of the Commission and the Speaker of the Assembly, and which shall sit during the recess of the Legislature for the same purpose as the committee authorized by section ten of Act Numbered  Eighteen  hundred  and  seventy-three; per diems at thirty pesos each  for the chairman of the Committee on Accounts and the chairman of the Library Committee, and the chairman and members of the committee of three authorized by Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and seventy-three and for members of other committees authorized by law or resolution or by order of the President of the Commission and the Speaker of the Assembly while the Legislature is not in session, in case during said time their services may be required by the Speaker of the Assembly, who shall fix the minimum hours of session or of  work for all Assembly committees, officers, and employees authorized by this Act; for salaries and compensation of subordinate personnel; for salaries and wages of other officers and employees of other branches of the Government who, on request of the Assembly or of the Speaker thereof, and with the consent of their respective chiefs, shall have rendered or shall render services to the Assembly, in addition to their regular duties; for traveling expenses of the Speaker of the Assembly when making inspection trips: traveling expenses of Delegates, and per diems or traveling expenses of subordinate personnel; rent of buildings; furniture; equipment, including uniforms of officers and messengers of the Assembly; stationery: printing and binding; postage, telegrams and cablegrams; purchase of books for the library and installation of library, electric current and telephones; repairs of buildings and furniture: transportation and carriage of property; incidental expenses; four bundled and twenty-five thousand five hundred and thirty pesos.

RESIDENT  COMMISSIONERS  TO  THE  UNITED STATES.

For salaries of two private secretaries, at four thousand pesos per annum each; for traveling expenses of private secretaries: Provided, That if the Congress of the United States should pay any salary or traveling expense or part thereof of such private secretaries such payments shall be deducted from the amount hereby appropriated; nine thousand pesos.

EXECUTIVE  BUREAU.

Executive Bureau: For salaries and wages of Executive Secretary, at eighteen thousand pesos per annum : Assistant Executive Secretary, at twelve thousand pesos per annum ; Second Assistant Executive Secretary, at seven thousand pesos  per  annum; two Special Agents, at eight thousand five hundred pesos per annum each, to be appointed by the Governor-General with the advice and consent of the Philippine Commission.

Administration division:
Chief of division, class three; eight clerks, class six; six clerks, class seven; four clerks, class eight; two clerks, class nine; three clerks, class ten; two clerks, Class A; two, clerks, Class B; two clerks, Class C; six clerks Class D; two clerks, Class E; five clerks, Class F : four clerks, Class H; nine messengers, at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum each; twelve messengers, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each.

Division of legislative records:
Chief of division, whose duties shall be performed by the Secretary of the Commission without additional compensation; three clerks, class six: one clerk, Class A; two clerks, at one thousand five hundred pesos per annum each; one messenger, at three hundred pesos per annum.

Translating division :
Chief of division, at seven thousand pesos per annum; assistant chief, class four: one clerk, class five; two clerks, class six; one clerk, class seven : one clerk, at three thousand pesos per annum; two clerks, Class A: one clerk, Class F; one clerk, Class 1; one messenger, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum.

Division of archives, patents, copyrights and trade-marks:
Chief of division, whose duties shall be performed by the Second Assistant Executive Secretary; two clerks, class eight; two clerks, Class A: two clerks, Class D; one clerk, Class F; three clerks, Class G ; one clerk. Class H; three clerks, Class J; two messengers, at three hundred pesos per annum each.

Records division :
Chief of division, class three; one clerk, class five; one clerk, class six: four clerks, class seven; one clerk, class eight; two clerks, class nine: one clerk, class ten; one clerk, Class B; one clerk. Class C: two dorks. Class D; one clerk, Class E; three clerks, Class F: three clerks, Class G; three clerks, Class H; six clerks. Class I ; five messengers, at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum each : four messengers, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each.

Custodian force:
One janitor, Class A: one watchman, Class G; one laborer, at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; ten laborers, at three hundred pesos per annum each: four laborers, at two hundred and roriv pesos per annum each.

Miscellaneous:
Per diems of ten pesos for the officer detailed as aid-de-camp to the Governor-General : for reimbursement to judiciary appropriation, account services; of reporter of Supreme Court and office compiling the Ads of the Legislature, the Official Gazette, forth : for hire of temporary employees, including translator accrued leaves of absence; for salary allowances to employees appointed outside of the Philippine Islands.

Contingent expenses:
For contingent expenses, including purchase and repair of office equipment and furniture; purchase of office supplies; transportation of officers, employees, and supplies; hire of transportation from city of Manila: street-car tickets and emergency transportation; per diems or allowances in lieu thereof; cablegrams; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; telephone rent; advertising; subscriptions to newspapers; for a fund to be expended, in the discretion of the Governor-General; electric lighting; janitor supplies, including ice and water; for contingent expenses of Malacañan; and other incidental expenses; four hundred and eighty-six thousand pesos.

BUREAU  OF  AUDITS.

Bureau of Audits: For salaries and wages of—
Administration:
Insular Auditor, at twelve thousand pesos per annum; Deputy Insular Auditor, at seven thousand live hundred pesos per annum; two assistant auditors, class one; four clerks, class three; two clerks, class four; two clerks, class five; five clerks, class six; eight clerks, class seven; eleven clerks, class eight; six clerks, class nine; five clerks, class ten; three clerks, Class A; two clerks, Class B; three clerks, Class C: three clerks, Class D; three clerks, Class E; four clerks, Class F: four clerks, Class G; eight clerks, Class H; sixteen clerks, Class I; eight clerks, Class J; one messenger, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; three messengers, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each.

Provincial division:
Chief district auditor, at six thousand pesos per annum; two clerks, class four; ten clerks, class five; ten clerks, class six; four clerks, class seven; two clerks, class eight; two clerks, class nine.

Railway division:
One clerk, class six; one clerk", class eight; one clerk, Class D; one clerk, at one thousand pesos per annum; two clerks, Class G; three clerks, Class H: one messenger, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum.

Miscellaneous:
Watchman, Intendencia Building; for temporary employees; for accrued leaves of absence; for salary allowances to employees appointed outside of the Philippine Islands.

Contingent expenses:
For contingent expenses, including purchase and repair of office equipment and furniture; purchase of office supplies; transportation of officers, employees, and  supplies: per diems or allowances in lieu thereof; hire of transportation from the city of Manila; street-car tickets; cablegrams: postage and telegrams; printing and binding; building service : printing Part II, of Auditor's Report; printing Spanish edition of Part I of Auditors Report; other incidental expenses; three hundred and sixty-six thousand two hundred pesos.

BUREAU  OF  CIVIL  SERVICE.

Bureau of Civil,Service: For salaries and wages of Director of Civil Service, at eight thousand pesos per annum; Assistant Director of Civil Service, at seven thousand pesos per annum; one examiner, class three; one examiner, class four; one examiner, class five; two examiners, class six; two examiners, class seven; three examiners, class eight: one clerk, Class A; two clerks, Class B; two clerks, Class C;two clerks, Class D; two clerks, Class F; six clerks, Class G; two clerks, Class H; one clerk, Class I; one clerk, Class J; one messenger, Class J; one messenger, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; two messengers, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each; for temporary employees and accrued leaves; for salary allowances to employees appointed outside of the Philippine Islands; for contingent expenses, including purchase and repair of office equipment and furniture; purchase of office supplies; transportation of officers, employees, and supplies; hire of transportation from the city of Manila; street-ear tickets; per diems or allowances in lieu thereof; cablegrams; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; maintenance of building, including rent of telephone; purchase of books; other incidental expenses: Provided, That the cost of cablegrams sent at the request of other branches of the Government shall be borne by the office making such request; seventy-eight thousand pesos.

DEPARTMENT  OF  THE  INTERIOR.

BUREAU  OF  HEALTH.

Bureau of Health : For salaries and wages of—

General office.
Director of Health, at twelve thousand pesos per annum; one messenger, at thirty pesos per month.

Inspection division:
Assistant Director of Health, at seven thousand five hundred pesos per annum : one district health officer, Cebu and Oriental negros at live thousand pesos per annum; one  district health officer, Albay and  Ainbos  Camarines, at four thousand pesos per annum : one district health officer, Palawan, at four thousand pesos per annum : district health officer, Painpanga. at three thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one district health officer, Batangas, at two thousand seven hundred pesos per annum; one district health officer. Tayabas at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum : one district health officer, Iloilo, Capiz, and Antique, at three thousand pesos per annum; one district health officer. Leyte and Samar at three thousand pesos per annum; one district health officer, Balaan, Cavite, and Rizal, at two thousand eight hundred pesos per annum ; one district health officer, Mindoro and Romblon at two thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one district health officer. Bulacan, at two thousand seven hundred pesos per annum ; one district health officer, Occidental Negros, at two thousand seven hundred pesos per annum; one district health officer, La Laguna, at two thousand four hundred pesos Per annum : one district health officer. Bohol, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum; one district health officer, Cagayan, at two thousand four lmndred pesos per annum; one district health officer, lsabela, at two thousand four liundred pesos per annum; the district health officer. Ilocos Norte and llocos Sur, at two mid four hundred pesos per annum : one district health officer, La Union and Zambales, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum : one districf health officer. Misamis, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum; one district health officer, Surigao and at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum; one ealth officer. Nueva Ecija, at two thousand four hundred pesos pcr annum; one district health officer, Pangasinan, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; one district health officer, Masbate and Sorsogon at two thousand four hundred pesos per  annum: one district health officer, Tarlac, at two thousand four pesos per annum: one district health officer, at one : eight hundred pesos per annum: one medical inspector, at five thousand four hundred pesos per annum; one medical inspector, at five thousand pesos per annum: one medical inspector, thousand eight lmndred pesos jier annum; three medical inspectors, at four thousand five hundred pesos per annum each; thirteen medical inspectors, at four thousand pesos per annum each; one clerk,  class eight; one sanitary inspector, class nine; five employees, at thirty pesos per month each ; eleven employees, at twenty pesos per month each.

Sanitary engineering division:
Sanitary engineer, at seven thousand pesos per annum; one clerk, class nine; seven sanitary inspectors, class ten; one clerk, Class G; one junior draftsman, Class G.

Statistical division:
Chief of division, at live thousand pesos per annum; one interpreter and translator, class eight; two clerks, Class C; one clerk, Class D; one clerk, Class I; two clerks, Class J.

Clerical division:
Chief of division, class four; one clerk, class six; three clerks, class seven; one clerk, class nine; three clerks, Class A; one clerk, Class E; one clerk, Class I; one clerk, Class J; four employees, at thirty pesos per month each; one employee, at twenty pesos per month.

Property division :
One property clerk, class six; one clerk, Class A; one clerk, Class F; one clerk, Class I; four employees, at thirty pesos per month each.

Vaccinating division:
For the employment of sanitary inspectors in the city of Manila and in the provinces, under such restrictions as the Secretary of
 the Interior may direct, the provisions of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sanitary stations:
Seven sanitary inspectors, class ten; three municipal physicians, at one hundred and J'ortv-one pesos and sixty-seven centavos per month each; five municipal physicians, at one hundred and twenty- five pesos per month each; sixty-five assistant sanitary inspectors, at fifty pesos per month each.

Disinfecting division:
One disinfector, class nine; two assistant disinfeetors, Class A; six assistant disinfeetors, at thirty pesos per month each.

Central free dispensary:
One pharmacist, class ten; one assistant pharmacist, at ninety pesos per month; one employee-clerk, at forty pesos per month.

Emergency funds:
For the hire of such temporary employees as may be necessary in the suppression and extermination of: epidemic diseases and pests.

Tuberculosis dispensary:
Two nurses, class nine; two employees, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each.

General hospital division:
One supervising nurse, class nine, with subsistence and quarters in kind; pupil nurses, at the  rate of ten pesos  per month for third year students and  twenty pesos per month for fourth year students; two internes,  at one thousand  pesos per annum each; two internes, at six hundred pesos per annum each ; four internes, at  three hundred pesos per annum each : Provided, That internes may be allowed subsistence, quarters, and laundrv in kind with or without other compensation and at the expense of the hospitals or other institutions at which said internes shall be assigned to duty: Provided further, That said internes shall be selected by the Director of Health after competitive examination to bo prescribed by him, and the provisions of Act Numbered One thousand six hundred and ninety-eight shall not apply to these positions; and that in the event of the selection for appointment to the position of interne of a person residing outside of the Philippine Islands, such person shall be entitled to actual and necessary traveling expenses from his place nf residence to Manila and after two years of satisfactory service he shall be entitled to actual and necessary traveling expenses from Manila to his place of residence, if such expenses be not greater than In place of appointment.

San Lazaro Hospitals division:
One superintendent, class eight, one steward, class ten; two watchmen, at ninety pesos per month each, or one hundred and thirty pesos per month each if subsistence and quarters be not furnished, one laborer, at thirty pesos per month, two laborers at twenty-five pesos per month each, one driver, at twenty pesos per month, one conk, at eighty pesos per month, with subsistence and quarters in kind: wne engineer, at forty-eight pesos per month; two carpenters, at forty-eight pesos per month each; four laborers, at twenty pesos per month each.

Insane department:  Nine attendants.  Class  C, one matron, at insane department, forty-eight pesos per month, two assistant cooks, at thirty pesos per month each,  live  servants,  at twenty pesos per month each, one ; seamstress, at  twenty pesos per month, five laundresses, at fifteen pesos per month each, twelve servants, at fifteen pesos per month eaeh, with subsistence and quarters in kind.

Leper department: One house physician, class ten, one capataz,  at foty pesos per month, one cook, at forty pesos per month, four it twenty pesos per month each, one assistant cook, at twenty pesos per month, three laundrymen, at fifteen pesos per each, four servants, at fifteen pesos per month each, one at twelve pesos per month, twelve leper police, at twenty centavos per day each, with subsistence and quarters in kind.

Contagious disease department: One chief trained nurse, at two thousand and forty pesos per annum, four trained nurses, Class A, one cook, at; forty pesos per month, two nurses, at thirty pesos-per month each, one servant, at twenty-five pesos per month, three servants, at twenty pesos per month each, three servants, at fifteen pesos por month each, one laundress, at fifteen pesos per month, with subsistence and quarters in kind.

Morgue and crematory department: One morgue attendant, Class C one cemetery inspector, at thirty pesos per month, two laborers, at twentv-five pesos per month each, with subsistence and quarters in kind.

Culion leper colony division:
Chiel of Culion leper colony division, at seven thousand pesos per annum, with quarters in kind; one steward, class eight, one assistant steward and engineer, class ten, one physician, class nine, ins. at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum each, one chaplain with quarters and subsistence only, two clerks, Class F Sisters of Charity in leper hospital at rates to be fixedby the Director of Health with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, not to exceed five thousand four hundred pesos, one employee, at fifty-eight pesos per month, six servants, at thirty pesos per month each, two sailors, at twelve pesos per month each, with subsistence and quarters in kind; leper employees: one cook, at fiftyy pesos per month, two servants, at twenty-five pesos per month one encargado, at ten pesos per month, six employees, at six month  each, five kitchen attendants, at six pesos per month each, twenty leper police, at twenty centavos per day each, with subsistence and quarters in kind; for hire of leper attendants, servants, nurses, and so forth, as needed, not to exceed fifty centavos per day each, for extra guards, stewards, ami attendants with subsistence and quarters in kind.

Civil Hospital division:
Chief, Civil Hospital division, at seven thousand pesos per annum: one superintendent, class eight, two house surgeons, class nine, one dispensing clerk', class nine, one clerk, class nine, one clerk and interpreter, at one thousand two hundred pesos per annum, one chief muse ai two thousand and forty pesos per annum, one dietist, Class A, one operating nurse. Class B, thirteen nurses, Class C, two attendants, Class C, eight attendants, Class D, one practicante. at twenty pesos per month, one chief cook, at seventy pesos per month, two cooks, at fifty pesos per month each, one assistant cook, at thirty pesos per month, with quarters and subsistence in kind; six employees, at twenty-six pesos per month each, six employees, at twenty-two pesos per month each, seven employees, at eighteen pesos per month each, thirteen employees, at fourteen pesos per month each, with subsistence in kind; for the employment of temporary clerks and ' other employees as substitutes for persons occupying similar positions who have been granted leave of absence: Provided, That the Director of Health may employ, without the intervention of the Bureau of Civil Service, an additional house surgeon for the Civil Hospital division, without pay, such house surgeon to receive subsistence and quarters, if accommodation can be found for him in the buildings used in connection with the Civil Hospital division, or in lieu thereof the Director of Health may designate one qualified physician, employee of the Government; to be given board and quarters as additional compensation for his services during hours not engaged with his regular duties, the provisions of exists ing law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Baguio Hospital division :
One superintendent and cashier, Class nine, one chief nurse at one thousand nine hundred and twenty pesos per annum, two nurses, Class C, one employee, at liftv pesos per month, one employee, at thirty pesos per month, two employees, at sixteen pesos per month each, one employee, at ten pesos per month, with subsistence and quarters in kind: for hire of temporary and emergency employees as necessary: for subsistence and quarters as additional compensation to any employee of another branch of the Government whose partial services may be required and secured, the provisions of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That the charges at the hospital as fixed by law prior to November first, nineteen hundred and five, may thereafter be changed by the Director of Health with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.

Prison sanitation division:
One dispensing clerk, class nine, two nurses, Class A, three practicantes, at seventy pesos per month each, with quarters in kind.

Miscellaneous:
For secretary-treasurers' and examiners' fees as provided by law, for the Board of Medical Examiners, Board of Pharmaceutical Examiners, and Board of Dental Examiners.

For the hire of temporary employees: Provided, That quarters and subsistence may be furnished to such temporary employees if  regular employees engaged in similar work are entitled to quarters and subsistence; commutation of accrued leave of officers and employees.

Contingent expenses:
For contingent expenses, including purchase of office, hospital, plant, station, dispensary, and disinfecting furniture, equipment, and supplies; per dieins of officers and employees when traveling on official business; transportation of officers, employees, and supplies; cablegrams, postage, and telegrams; printing and binding; for the support and maintenance of hospitals, plants, and stations;  for campaigns against intestinal parasites; for free tuberculosis dispenary : for outdoor treatment of tuberculosis at Benguet, including her equipment, subsistence, clothing, and incidentals; for establishment and maintenance of night camps for tuberculosis patients, including necessary shelter, equipment, and incidentals; for subsidence of inmates of hospitals, plants, and camps for communicable diseaes, and of other persons entitled thereto: Provided, That commutation of subsistence, at rates to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, inuv be paid in lieu of subsistence in in kind: Provided further, That the city of Manila shall pay, at rates oved by the Secretary of the Interior, for the maintenance ane persons committed after the date of this Act, who resided in Manila for a period of one or more years ate of application for commitment, so long as the number of insane person maintained at the expense of the Insular Government on account of the city of Manila shall exceed the latter's pro rata share of such persons on the basis of population; for transportation of Sisters of Charity to and from Culion when sick; for subsistence of Sisters of Charity while en route from Manila to Culion ami return: for payments to the Hospicio de San Jose, to tin; Colegio de Santa Isabel, and to the Saint Vincent de Paul Orphan Asylum, for the maintenance of orphans and other indigent persons: Provided, That in the event of the marriage of any female inmate of a charitable institution who is maintained at tlic expense of the Government, a dowry equal to the expense of maintenance for two years may be paid to her from this appropriation in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior; for aid in the maintenance of institutions for the protection of infants; for the two dispensing of medicines and medical supplies to indigent persons, or to Government eiuplovees, upon prescriptions of qualified physicians, in accordance with existing law; for custodian's charge; rents: repairs: for laundry allowances for nurses at rates to lie approved by the Secretary of the Interior; for renewal and extension of plants; for vaccine virus; sera; telephones; photographs: ice: surgical instruments: medical and professional books and periodicals: electric current and illuminating supplies: cleaning vaults and pails; hire and maintenance of official transportation: in the discretion of the Director of Health, gratuities of twenty centavos per week to the inmates of Government leper institutions: Provided, That subsistence and quarters of medical officers and employees of the Bureau of Health may be furnished assigned to duty in institutions maintained by the Bureau of Health or collection of lepers: Provided, That the Bureau of Health is hereby authorized to continue construction work at uhon without the intervention of the Bureau of Public Works or the Consulting Architect, existing law to the contrary notwithstanding; and other incidental expenses; one million three hundred and ten thousand pesos.

For lighting General Hospital, seven thousand pesos.

For the suppression and extermination of epidemic diseases and pests, fifty thousand pesos.

So much of the funds accruing from the license and internal-revenue funds. reyenue taxeg under the provisions of Act  Numbered Seventeen hundred and sixty-one as amended as may be necessary are hereby made available for the payment of the reasonable expenses in some reputable hospital of poisons desiring to cure themselves of the, opium habit and, in the discjetion of the  Director of Health, of the traveling expenses from and to their place of residence in the provinces of such patients as reside outside of Manila and are in needy circumstances, and for other expenses incident thereto; Provided, That no patient shall be treated at the expense of the Government under the foregoing provisions for a longer than sixty days: Provided further, That the expenditure of funds hereinbefore made available shall be under the direction and control of the Director of Health.

BUREAU  OF  LANDS.

Bureau of Lands: The salaries and wages of Director of Lands, at twelve thousand pesos per annum: Assistant Director of Lands, at seven thousand five hundred pesos per annum; one chief clerk, class four; three clerks, class three: one chief surveyor, class three; one assistant chief surveyor, class four; one chief computer, class five; four surveyors, class five; one chief draftsman, class five; one clerk, class five; -two draftsmen, class six; seven surveyors, class six; three clerks, class six; eight clerks, class seven; fifteen surveyors, class  seven;  two computers, class seven: one superintendent of irrigation, class eight; seven  clerks, class  eight; twenty-five surveyors, at three thousand pesos per annum each; twenty-two surveyors,  class eight; one draftsman, class eight: five computers, class eight; eight clerks, class nine: six surveyors, class nine; five computers, class ten; one clerk, Class A; one clerk, Class B; four junior computers, Class P.; one clerk, Class C; three clerks, Class D; six clerks, Class K; two junior draftsmen, Class B; one clerk, Class F; six junior computers,  Class  F;  two junior draftsmen, Class F; seven clerks.  Class G; ten junior computers, Class G; five clerks, Class II; twenty-nine junior computers, Class H; ten junior draftsmen, Class 11; six clerks, Class I;  twenty junior computers, Class I; twelve junior draftsmen, Class I; eight junior surveyors, Class I; eight clerks,  Class ,J; ten junior draftsmen, Class J; twenty junior computers.  Class J;  one clerk, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum ; twenty apprentice surveyors, at thirty pesos per month  each; twelve apprentice surveyors, at twenty pesos per month   each:  Provided,  That the provisions of sections  one  and  two  of  Act   Numbered Fourteen  hundred and ninety-one be and are hereby amended  so as to permit students who have satisfactorily completed the second year of provincial or Manila high school.instruction to he certified by the Director of Education to the Director of Lands as apprentice surveyors, and  all apprentice surveyors shall continue their course of instruction in such school as the Secretary of Public Instruction may determine; two messengers, at ihree hundred and sixty pesos per annum each; one office boy, at thirty pesos per month; one clerk, at three hundred pesos per annum ; one clerk, at  two hundred and forty pesos per annum; one office boy, at twenty pesos per month; for hire of overseers, foremen, irrigation ditch  tenders and laborers, chainmen, semiskilled and unskilled  laborers  for survey parties, and for hire of temporary employees; for accrued leaves of absence; for salary allowances to employees appointed outside of the Philippine Islands; for contingent expenses, including subsistence for  survey parties; transportation of officers and employees, survey penses parties, and supplies; purchase of office supplies; purchase of office furniture, drafting supplies, instruments and equipment for field parties, ami so forth; incidental expenses, including rent of offices and quarters for surveyors and friar lands agents, repairs, forage, and so forth, and for the purchase and maintenance of transportation for managers of friar lands estates; for an allowance of twenty pesos per month each to officers and employees in the provinces for each authorized horse furnished and maintained by said others and employees for official transportation: Provided, That the Director of Lands is hereby authorized with the prior approval of the Secretary of the Interior to advance to officers and employees not. to exceed one hundred and twenty-five pesos for the purchase of each native horse or four hundred pesos for the purchase of each Australian horse required for transportation, such advances to be reimbursed to the Government by monthly deductions of ten per centum in the case of the purchase of a native horse and twenty per centum in the case of the purchase of an Australian horse from the officers and employees' salaries, and for such advances this appropriation is hereby made available; for repairs to irrigation dams and ditches and to buildings on friar lands estates: for the erection of survey monuments, and other incidentals; for per diems of officers and employees not members of survey parties, including appraisers for public lands and friar lands estates, when traveling on official business; printing and binding: postage, telegrams and cablegrams; sheriffs' fees and court c.osls, registers' and court fees in cases heretofore or hereafter instituted by or against the Government of the Philippine Islands affecting the public or other lands owned by the Government; and miscellaneous expenses; janitor service; advertising lands under the provisions of Act Numbered Nine hundred and twenty-six; six hundred and seventy-five thousand pesos.

BUREAU  OF  SCIENCE.

Bureau of Science: For salaries and wages of Director of the Bureau of Science, at twelve thousand pesos per annum; chief of the biological laboratory, at ten thousand pesos per annum; chief of the division of mines, at six thousand pesos per annum; chief of the division of ethnology, at six thousand pesos per annum; chief of tlie chemical division, at six thousand pesos per annum; one employee, class  three employees, class two; six employees, class three: four employees, class four; nine employees, class five; five employees, class six; ten employees, class seven; two employees, at three thousand pesos per annum each; five employees, class eight; two employees, class nine; two employees, class ten; two employees, class three employees, Class C; seven employees, Class D; two employees. Class E; three employees, Class F; one employee, at nine hundred pesos per annum: two employees, Class G; six employees, Class H: eight employees, Class I; three employees, Class J; two employees, at forty pesos per month each; one employee, at thirty-nix pesos per month; two employees, at thirty pesos per month ; twenty employees, at twenty-five pesos per month each; ten employees, at twenty pesos per month each; for per diems to officers of the Federal service who may be detailed by competent authority or the Bureau of Science, the rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior with the concurrence of the Governor-General in each instance; for salaries and expenses to permit the Bureau, by and with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior, to call to the Philippines from other countries specialists where necessary or advisable to carry on scientific investigations, or to permit.the Bureau, by and with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior, to advance salaries of specially qualified men who would otherwise leave the service; for salaries and wages, additional engine-room force, January first, nineteen hundred and ten, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten; for temporary employees; for accrued leaves, salary allowances io employees appointed outside of the Philippine Islands; for the establishment, equipment, and maintenance of a sugar-testing laboratory at Iloilo, and for the salaries and wages of employees, and operating expenses of such laboratory; for contingent expenses, including transportation, per diems, traveling expenses, rental of city transportation, launch hire, and so forth;  chemicals; apparatus; supplies: small animals and feed for same; ice and distilled water: egg, meat, milk, and so forth; alcohol; coal, oil, and so forth; for maintenance of power plant; horses, cattle, and so forth, and feed for same; oflicc supplies; photographic supplies; books and subscriptions, and so forth; telephones and fire-alarm boxes; postage, cablegrams, telegrams: repairs to furniture, apparatus, and so forth: laundry ; printing and binding; advertising; building maintenance; and other incidental expenses; for purchase and installation of museum specimens and For hire of special assistance in preparing, classifying, and extending museum work; three hundred and twenty-seven thousand pesos.

BUREAU  OF  AGRICULTURE.

Bureau of Agriculture: For salaries and wages of Director of  Agriculture, at ten thousand pesos per annum; Assistant Director of Agriculture, at six thousand five hundred pesos per annum; chief veterinarian, at  six thousand pesos per annum; chief of division of experiment stations, at five thousand pesos per annum; superintendent of agricultural extension work, at five thousand pesos per annum; two veterinarians, at five thousand pesos per annum each; Assistant to the Director of Agriculture, at four thousand five hundred pesos per annum; two veterinarians, at four thousand five hundred pesos per annum each: ten employees, class five: sixteen employees, class six: twenty-five employees, class seven; twelve employees, class eight: eight employees, class nine; ten employees, class ten; three employees, Class A; three employees, Class B; three employees, Class C : four employees. Class D; four employees, Class E: fourteen employees, Class F: six employees, Class G; six employees, Class H; five employees, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each: for hire of inoculators, live-stock inspectors,  mechanics, teamsters, and laborers at stations and farms, and temporary employees; for accrued leaves of absence; for contingent expenses, including purchase and repair of office equipment and furniture; purchase of olliee supplies: per diems or allowances in lieu  thereof; transportation of officers, employees, and supplies; cablegrams; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; for collection and purchase of seeds, plants, and so forth, for experimental purposes and distribution ; for purchase of instruments and apparatus; live stock; vehicles, harness, and stable supplies; forage; machinery; implements, tools, and repairs: station and farm supplies; medicines; building materials and repairs: purchase and manufacture of serum; rents; other incidental expenses; five hundred and twenty-five thousand pesos.

BUREAU  OF  FORESTRY.

Bureau of Forestry: For salaries and wages of Director of Forestry, at eight thousand pesos per annum; one forester, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; three foresters, class five; three foresters, class six; one chief clerk, class six; one manager, timber-testing laboratory, class six; four foresters, class seven, one of whom shall act as instructor of forestry students; one properly clerk, at three thousand pesos per annum; one forester, class eight; one clerk, class eight; one assistant forester, Class A: two assistant foresters, Class C; six assistant foresters,  Class D: one clerk, Class E; ten rangers, Class G; one clerk, Class G ; ten rangers. Class H; two clerks, Class H; one draftsman, Class II : ten student foresters, at forty pesos per month each, and per diems of fifty centavos each while in the field; twenty special students, at twenty pesos per month each, and per diems of fifty centavos each, for not to exceed two months; ten Special student, at forty centavos per diem for two hundred and twenty-five day each : two messengers, at three hundred pesos per annum me laborer, at twenty pesos per month; for hire of temporary employees : for accrued leaves of absence.

Contingent expenses:
For contingent expenses, including purchase of office furniture lipinent; purchase of office supplies; maintenance and repair pnient; per diems of officers and employees when traveling onoliicial business: traveling expenses and transportation of officers and employees when traveling on official business; transportation of supplies: cablegrams: postage and telegrams; printing and binding; purchase of specimen forest products; per diems of fifty centavos each for employees stationed in provinces, in lieu of cost of Lorago for horses to be furnished by them and used as means of official transportation; rents; expenses incident to the examination of homesteads; other incidental expenses; one hundred and forty-three thousand pesos: Provided, That of this sum twenty thousand pesos shall be available only for the forestry service in the Province of Bataan and Occidental Negros.

BUREAU  OF  QUARANTINE  SERVICE.

Bureau of Quarintine Service: For the salaries, allowances, and salanes al commutation of quarters of officers of the United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service as provided for by the regulations of said service: one chief clerk, cashier, and pharmacist, at four thousand four hundred pesos per annum; one female inspector, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum; one engiineer, class nine: two clerks, at two thousand and forty pesos per annum each; one clerk and disinfector, at one thousand mill red and twentv pesos per annum; one chief disinfector, A: one watchman, at one thousand four hundred and forty per  annum; two disinfectors, Class D; two engineers, Class 'assistant engineer, Class F; one vaccinator and disinfector,: two disinfectors. Class H; one cook, Class H; two clerks and disinfectors Class I : two clerks and disinfectors, Class one mechanic, at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; two disinlector's assistants, at four hundred pesos per annum each; one messenger, af three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; fifteen attendants, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each; seven employess at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each: one patron at one thousand and eighty pesos per annum; two patrons, eight hundred and forty pesos per annum each; one engineer,

at one thousand and eighty pesos per annum ; two engineers, at eight hundred and forty pesos per annum each; one assistant engineer,  at seven hundred and eighty pesos per annum; one quartermaster, at five hundred and forty pesos per annum;two quartermasters, at three hundred pesos per annum each; two firemen, at five hundred and forty poos per annum each; four firemen, at three hundred pesos per annum each; four sailors, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each; six sailors, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each ; for temporary employees, disinfector's assistants, and laborers assisting regular force in the disinfection work, or handling supplies, or necessitated by the presence of quarantinable disease ; and for the payment of necessary fees not to exceed twenty pesos per vessel to qualified physicians, for quarantine inspection of vessels at ports of entry where no regular officer of the United Suites Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service is available: for labor for the maintenance of grounds and quarantine stations; for accrued leave; for salary allowances to employees appointed outside of the Philippine Islands; for contingent expenses, including purchase of office furniture; for purchase of official stationery; for per diems, or traveling expenses of officers and employees while traveling on official orders in the Philippines, from the United States, or in foreign countries; for transportation of supplies and employees to and from storehouse to vessels, from storehouse to launch and return of apparatus, and securing and forwarding supplies for the Mariveles Quarantine Station; vehicle and car fare for officers and employees on official business; for cablegrams; for postage and telegrams; for printing and binding: for the purchase of apparatus, equipment, subsistence, and other supplies for the maintenance and Operation of quarantine stations and of barges and launches: Provided, That commutation of subsistence, fuel, and ice, at rales to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, may be paid in lieu of subsistence, fuel, and ice, in kind; for repairs to buildings, wharfs, including material for same and supplies, lumber, and so forth : for minor repairs constantly necessary for the care and preservation of the public buildings and structures at the several quarantine stations; for repairs to equipment and furniture: for repairs to launches and barges; for repairs to lighting, sewer, and water systems of quarantine stations; rent: telephones, and post-office boxes: for hire and maintenance of official transportation, Manila and stations: for launch hire and towing; for uniforms for launch crews; for allowance of sixty pesos per month, in lieu of subsistence, to the pharmacist, stationed on the Island of Cauit: for professional publications: for incidental and emergency expenses, ice vaccine, laundry, and other necessary supplies or services: And provided further, That the Bureau of Quarantine Service is hereby authorized, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to charge for the services and supplies, including water, furnished to ships, at any of the Bureau's stations at rates to be fixed by the Chief Quaranitine Officer for the Philippine Islands; and the proceeds of such charges shall be deposited to the credit of this appropriation, and shall be available for expenditure in addition to the amounts hereinbefore appropriated; and other incidental expenses; one hundred and twenty-five thousand-pesos.

WEATHER  BUREAU.

Weather Bureau: For salaries and wages of the Director of the Weather Bureau, at five thousand pesos per annum; three Assistant Directors of the Weather Bureau, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum each; one secretary, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; four observers, at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum each; four calculators, at one thousand four hundred and forty pesos per annum each; four assistant observers, at one thousand two hundred pesos per annum each; three assistant calculators, at six hundred pesos per annum each; one draftsman Class C: one draftsman, Class D; one employee, one employee, Class D; one employee, Class G; one employee Class 1 ; two employees, at three hundred and sixty pesos in each : two messengers, at three hundred pesos per annum en chief observers, at one thousand two hundred pesos per ach : seven assistant observers, at two hundred pesos per each : ten second-class observers, at six hundred pesos per ach; tweniy-six third-class observers, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each; twelve observers for rain stations, at one hundred and eighty pesos per annum each; one observer-telegrapher, at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one chief observer, at one thousand four hundred and forty pesos per annum : one assistant observer, at three hundred pesos per annum : one mechanic, at eight hundred and forty pesos per annum ; teinpnrarv einployees: accrued leaves of absence; for contingent expenses, including purchase of office and station equipment and furniture: purchase of office supplies; per dierns of officers and employees when traveling on official business; transportation of officers, employees, and supplies; cablegrams; postage and telegrams; printing and binding: installation of instruments and repairs to same: an allowance of thirty pesos per month to the Director in lieu of official transportation in the city of Manila; rents; other incidental expenses: Provided, That the Director of the Bureau, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may reduce, suppress, or transfer any station maintained by it; one hundred and thirty-two thousand two hundred and forty pesos.

DEPARTMENT  OF  COMMERCE  AND  POLICE.

BUEAU  OF  CONSTABULARY.


Bureau of Constabulary:
Army officers detailed:
For difference between pay and allowances of brigadier-general and colonels, respectively, and that of their respective ranks in the United Siates Army, of the officers detailed as Director and Assistant Directors of the Bureau of Constabulary pursuant to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the United States entitled "An Act to promote the efficiency of the Philippines Constabulary, to establish the rank and pay commanding officers, and for other purposes," approved January thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, the provisions of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and seven to that contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That in the event of the vacation of the position of Director of Constabulary by an Army officer, the Governor-General may fill the position by the appointment of a civilian, at a salary of twelve thousand pesos per annum: And provided further, That upon the vacation of the positions of As-Direciors now occupied by Army officers, the Governor-General may fill the positions by the appointment of civilians at housand pesos per annum each.

Field officers:
Two colonels and Assistant Directors, at seven thousand pesos per annum each; three lieutenant-colonels and Assistant Directors, at  five thousand five hundred pesos per annum each; five majors, our thousand pesos per annum each.

Line officers:
Fifty-one captains, at an average of three thousand four hundred pesos per annum each; sixty-five first lieutenants, at two thousand eight hundred pesos per annum each; eighty-five second lieutenants, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum each; ninety-five third lieutenants, at two thousand two hundred pesos per annum each; for additional compensation of three hundre'd and sixty pesos per annum For each of the five officers detailed as district adjutants; for additional compensation of one hundred. pesos per annum for each officer of the Constabulary, not a native of the Philippine Islands, who proves his ability to speak and read one of the native dialects, and to each officer, a native of the Philippine Islands, who proves his ability to speak and read the English language, as provided in Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-four; for additional compensation to officers who have completed five years service, under the provisions of section four of Act Numbered Eighteen bundled and sixty-seven: Provided, That such additional compensation shall be paid at the completion of five years service regardless of the date an officer may have been promoted; for additional compensation to senior inspectors: Provided, That this fund shall  be assigned with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police  first had and that no senior inspector shall receive more than five thousand pesos; for extra compensation to supply officers, not to exceed seventeen thousand pesos.

Enlisted strength :
For pay of enlisted men of the line, including the necessary complement of noncommissioned officers: Provided, That the maximum strength shall not exceed five thousand and thirty men: And provided further, That the enlisted men to serve in any province may be selected from other provinces when the necessary quota of desirable men can not be obtained in that province at the rates of pay authorized  therein:  And provided further, That each enlisted man who shall reenlist within two months after his discharge by reason of expiration of term of enlistment shall receive two pesos per month additional pay for his second enlistment and one peso per month additional pay  for each enlistment subsequent to his second enlistment: And provided further, That the Director from the force authorized may organize four district bands of not more than thirty members each.

Band:
One conductor, wilh rank of captain, at four thousand five hundred pesos per annum: one chief musician, at seventy pesos per month; one first sergeant, at fifty pesos per month; two principal musicians, at forty-five pesos per month  each; ten sergeants, at forty pesos per month each ; seventeen corporals, at thirty-five pesos per month each; Forty-nine privates, at thirty pesos  per month each.

Office of the Director.
One clerk, class six; one messenger, at three hundred pesos per annum.

Executive division :
One major and executive inspector, at five thousand pesos per annum; one clerk, class five; one clerk, class six; three clerks, class seven; one clerk, class eight; two clerks, class nine; one clerk, Class C; one clerk, Class E; two clerks, Class F; one clerk, Class H; one clerk, Class I; four messengers, at throe hundred and sixty pesos per annum each.

Inspectors' division:
For per diem  of twelve pesos  for each of the United States Army officers detailed as inspectors for Constabulary.

Information division:
One lieutenant-colonel and Assistant Director, superintendent, ats on five thousand live hundred pesos per annum; one captain and assistant superintendent, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum: one clerk, class eight; two clerks, Class D; two agents, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum each; two agents, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum each; three agents, at hvo thousand Four hundred pesos per annum each; one agent, atone thousand two hundred pesos per annum; one agent, at eight d forty pesos per annum ; one agent, at six hundred ; four agents, at three hundred and sixty pesos each : one messenger, at three hundred pesos per annum; for hire additional assistance as required from time to time at varying rastes of pay,  not to exceed nine thousand  five hundred pesos.

Office of chief supply  officer.
One major and assistant chief supply officer, at five thousand pesos per annum: one clerk, class six; two clerks, class seven; one clerk. Class I: one captain and paymaster, at four thousand live hundred pesos per annum; one cierk, class six; one clerk, Class G: one clerk. Class I: one captain and property accountant, at four thousand five hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, class seven: one clerk. Class I; one messenger, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; one major and property officer, at four thousand five hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, class eight; one clerk. Class A: one clerk, Class B; one "clerk, Class G; one clerk Class I ; one storekeeper and shipper, at eight pesos and fifty cenlavos per diem : one checker, at six pesos per diem; one teamster, at five pesos and fifty centavos per diem; one storekeeper, at four pesos and seventy-five centavos per diem; one assistant storekeeper, at three pesos per diem : for hire of unskilled laborers.

Medical division :
One major and superintendent, at five thousand pesos per annum: live eaplains and surgeons, at four thousand pesos per annum each; five lirst lieutenants and medical inspectors, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum each; six second lieutenants find medical inspectors, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum each; ten sergeants, at thirty-three pesos per month each; fifteencorporals, at twenty-eight pesos per month each; seventy-five privates, ai eighteen pesos per month each; one clerk, Class G.

Headquarters, district of central Luzon:
One clerk class eight; one clerk, class nine; one messenger, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; for hire of agents as required from time to time, at varying rates of pay, not to exceed three thousand pesos.

Headquarter, district of southern Luzon:
One clerk, class seven; one clerk, class ten; one blacksmith, at five pesos per diem: three teamsters, at twenty pesos per month each; for hire of agents as required from time to time, at varying vate of pay, not to exceed one thousand four hundred pesos.

Headquarters, district of Visayas:
Two clerks, class eight: one clerk. Class I; one corral foreman, at four Pesos and fifty eentavos per diem; one janitor, at one hundred and eighty pesos per annum; one driver, at one hundred and eighty pesos per annum; one driver, at one peso per diem; for hire of agents as required from time to time, at varying rates of pay, not to exceed one thousand two hundred pesos.

Headquarters, district of northern Luzon:
One clerk, class eight; two clerks, Class I; one janitor, at one hundred and eighty pesos per annum ; for hire of agents as required from time to time, at varying rates of pay, not to exceed four hundred pesos.

Headquarters, district of Mindanao:
One clerk, class eight; one clerk, class ten; one clerk, Class I; one janitor, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum; one driver, at two pesos and fifty centavos per diem; for hire of agents as required from time to time, at varying rates of pay, not to exceed three hundred pesos.

Constabulary School:
One clerk, class nine; one fencing master and physical instructor, with relative rank of third lieutenant, at two thousand two hundred pesos per annum; one corral foreman, at five pesos and seventy-five centavos per diem.

Miscellaneous:
For accrued leaves of absence; for pay of clerks to supply officers, not to exceed an aggregate of one thousand pesos; for hire of emergency clerical labor, provided  that additional compensation shall not be paid hereundcr; for hire of temporary employees.

Contingent expenses:
For contingent expenses, including the purchase of material and manufacture of clothing and equipage, including allowance to enlisted men for clothing not drawn in kind; for the purchase, repair, and preservation of arms, ammunition, equipments, and musical instruments: Provided, That articles of clothing, equipage, and equipment may be sold to officers and enlisted men for their personal use, at cost price, under such restriction as the Director of Constabulary may prescribe, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police: And provided further, That clothing and other necessaries of life, excepting food supplies, may be sold by Constabulary civil supply stores to members of the non-Christian tribes at points to be designated by the Secretary of the  Interior, under the same conditions as sold to Insular anil provincial employees, the provisions of Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-two to the contrary not withstanding ; for commutation for offices and quarters, under the provisions of Acts Numbered Seven hundred and six and Eight bundled and seven: for rent of offices, guardhouses, arsenals, barracks, storehouses, stables, and telephones; for necessary repairs to buildings and construction of temporary buildings; for illuminating and cleaning supplies: for transportation of officers, enlisted men. employees, and prisoners; for travel of enlisted men upon their discharge to place of enlistment, and for transportation and subsistence of persons necessarily required by the Director and Assistant Directors in the transaction of public business, subject to approval by the Secretary of Commerce and forage, animals, Police; for transportation of supplies: for forage, veterinary attendance, medicines, shoeing, and incidentals for animals; for purchase and hire of draft and riding animals: for the purchase boats and vehicles, and repair of harness, wagons, carts, and so forth; for hire of boats other than those of the Bureau of Navigation: for the purchase of boat supplies, including gasoline or petroleum engines for installation in small boats owned by the Bureau; for hire of cutters and launches belonging to the Bureau of Navigation,

for subsistence  of  officers  and  employees  while  traveling  under orders, including per dicms of same when traveling upon official business; for street-car tickets; for the hire of vehicles from the city of Manila: Provided, That the subsistence and traveling expenses of officers and the traveling expenses of enlisted men on escort duty shall  be paid by the Bureau of Constabulary, and not by the Bureau or province at whose request the escort is furnished, the provisions of section one of Act Numbered Four hundred and four to the contrary notwithstanding: And provided further, That the Bureau of Constabulary shall pay the cost of transportation of prisoners from the place of arrest to the place where they are turned over to the province or to a court official for trial, that thereafter, and until turned over to the Bureau of Prisons, all necessary transportation shall he paid by the province concerned: And provided further, That forage in kind for one private animal used in the public service may be furnished the officer owning it, on his certificate, approved  by his senior inspector and district director: And provided further, That the cost of transportation of one private used in the public service shall be allowed to officers when g station, upon the approval of the senior inspector and the director:  And provided further, That forage may be sold, price, to any officer of the Constabulary on his certificate s for his personal use; for a contingent fund to be used for service purpose, and for the payment of rewards for the apprehension of deserters, in the discretion of the Director of Constabulary: for expenses connected with the deportation of vagrants; the payment of rewards leading to the capture and conviction of brigands and  other criminals, authorized under the provisions of Act Numbered Five hundred and twenty-two, as amended; for the discovery and prevention of crime: Provided, That payment of rewards hereimder may be made to persons employed in the service of the Insular, provincial, and municipal governments when in the discretion of the  Governor-General such payments are in the interests of the public service, the provisions of Act Numbered One hundred and  forty-eight to the contrary notwithstanding; for sub of enlisted men, except members of the Constabulary Band; etc. tor subsistence of cargadores and of municipal police and volunteers operating under tlie Constabulary; for subsistence of prisoners and destiiule witnesses;  for subsistence of enlisted men, officers, and other employees of the Insular Government, and of officers, enlisted employees of the United States Army sick in Constabulary at forty centavos per day each: Provided, That all collections at rates fixed by the Director of Constabulary, for the treat emplovees of the Government and employees and members lited Stales Army, excepting enlisted men of the Constabulary shall be deposited in the Insular Treasury as a credit to this appropriation: And provided  further, That when subsistence of lost sisteme is lost  through unavoidable causes, the Secretary of Commerce and  Police may authorize, upon proper evidence being siilunitied, reimbursement to the company sustaining such loss: And provided further, That company commanders and medical officers charge of  hospitals will  be charged with the duty of making requisition for, disbursing, and accounting for subsistence funds and subsistence supplies for their respective commands; for purchase and repair of Office furniture and equipment; for purchase of stationery and supplies;  for payment to the Insular Treasurer of newspaper, books, Premiums on officials' bonds; for newspapers and professional books; postage and telepostage and telegrams; printing and binding, including emergency printing and bind-pnntmg at the various district headquarters, the provisions of Act Numbered Two hundred and ninety-six to the contrary notwithstanding; for medical treatment of officers and enlisted men, under the provisions of Act Numbered Eight hundred and seven; for medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, including hospital laundry work; for burial of officers, enlisted men, and secret-service agents, including the purchase of cemetery lots; for ice. distilled water, and, laundry of office towels; and other incidental expenses; two million four hundred thousand pesos.

BUREAU  OF  PUBLIC  WORKS.

Bureau of Public Works: For salaries and wages of—
General office:
Director of Public Works, at twelve thousand pesos per annum; Assistant Director of Public Works, at nine thousand pesos per annum; assistant to the Dim-tor of Public Works, class one; one accountant, class one; one chief clerk, class three; one accountant, class five; one property clerk, class five; one record clerk, class six; three clerks, class six; two clerks, class seven; seven clerks, class eight: one storekeeper, class nine; one clerk, Class B; three clerks, Class C; one clerk, Class D; one clerk, Class E; one clerk, Class F; one clerk, Class G ; seven clerks. Class I ; four messengers, at thirty pesos per month each : five watchmen, at twenty-five pesos per month each; nine laborers, at twentv-five  pesos per month  each.

Drafting division:
One chief draftsman, class four; one junior draftsman, Class E; one junior draftsman, Class F; four junior draftsmen, Class G; two junior draftsmen, Class H; eight junior draftsmen, Class I; four junior draftsmen, Class J ; four blueprint men, at thirty pesos per month each.

Provincial division:
Five district engineers, class one: five district engineers, class two; three district engineers, class three; three assistant engineers, class four; ten assistant engineers, class five; five assistant engineers, class six; five assistant engineers, class seven; five overseers, class seven; one clerk, class seven: seventeen  assistant engineers, class eight;   six overseers, class   eight; eight clerks, class eight; six overseers, class nine; four clerks, class nine: two foremen, class ten; three clerks, class ten:  nine overseers, at one hundred and fifty pesos per month each; five overseers, Class D; one overseer, at nine hundred pesos per annum; one draftsman,  Class G; four clerks, at nine hundred pesos per annum each; nine overseers, Class H; six clerks, Class 1; one draftsman, Class 1 ; seven clerks, Class J; four surveymen, Class 1 :  four clerks, at thirty pesos per month each; five surveymen, at thirty pesos per month each: one clerk, at twenty pesos per month: two survey men, at twenty pesos per month each; one surveyman, at fifteen pesos per month; one gaugetender, at six pesos per month ; eight messengers, at an average of fifteen pesos per month each.

Building division:
One master builder, class two; ojic building inspector, class five; three building inspectors, class six; one electrician, class six; two clerks, class seven; four building inspectors, class seven; three foremen, class eight; six building inspectors, class eight; four assistant building inspectors, class nine; one clerk, Class F; oue messenger, at thirty pesos per month.

Bridge division:
One bridge engineer, at eight thousand pesos per annum; one supervising engineer, at seven thousand pesos per annum; one superintendent of machinery, class six; two assistant engineers, class four: one assistant engineer, class five; two assistant engineers, class six; three assistant engineers, class seven; one clerk, class seven: one assistant engineer, class eight; one clerk, class nine; two junior draftsmen, Class E; two junior draftsmen, Class F; one junior draftsman, Class G; two junior draftsmen, Class H.

Division of building custody:
One janitor, Class D; one foreman, at sixty pesos per month; three foremen, at forty pesos per month each; forty-one laborers,
at twenty-five pesos per month each.

Office of Consulting Architect:
One a-sisiant architect, class one; one chief draftsman, class three: one architectural draftsman, class five; two architectural draftsmen, class six; one clerk, class six; one architectural draftsman. class seven: one junior draftsman, Class E; one clerk, Class F : three junior draftsmen, Class F; four junior draftsmen, G: one junior draftsman, Class H; one clerk, Class I; one messnger, at thirty pesos per month.

Miscellaneous :
For the hire of such assistant engineers, draftsmen, surveyors, . and temporary employees, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, as may be necessary from time to time to sh authorized work: for accrued leaves; for salary allow-einplovers appointed outside of the Philippine Islands.

Contingent expenses:
For contingent expenses, including purchase of office furniture, construction equipment, tools, machinery, implements, and so forth; purchase of office supplies; purchase, maintenance, and operation means of transportation; per diems and subsistence of officers and employees when traveling on official business; transportation of officers, employees, and supplies; cablegrams, postage and telegrams; allowance to district engineers and their assistants in the or keep of authorized horses furnished and maintained transportation; telephones and operators in buildings of Bureau is the custodian; electric current for the same; middled wafer for the same; incidentals, including main equipment. periodicals, technical books, and janitors' or buildings of which this Bureau is the custodian: Provided, That the cost of janitors' services and supplies, telephone service, electric current, ice, water, laundry, and incidental expenses pertaining io the building custodian service, shall be prorated and collected by the Bureau of Public Works, from the Bureaus and Office; served: And provided further, That no additional telephone service shall be installed lor Insular Government Offices in the city of Manila, except under the supervision of the Bureau of' Public Works, upon approval by the head of the Department having jurisdiction over the Bureau or Office requiring the service.

Public- works investigations and maintenance:
Public works examinations and surveys as may be authorized by the Secretary of Commerce and Police; maintenance and betterment of the Benguet Road: Provided, That employees of the Bureau of Public Works shall be entitled to medicines and medical attendance while engaged on any authorized public works at places where usual medical, attendance is not accessible, and the Director of Public Works, may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, appoint such physicians, at fixed monthly salaries, as may be in his judgment for the best interest of the service, when such medical attendance and supplies can not be furnished by the Bureau of Health or the Bureau of Constabulary; for maintenance, alteration, and repairs to public buildings, including leased buildings, the contract for which provides that the maintenance, alteration, and repairs shall be made at the expense Approvals by Government: Provided, That no expenditure shall be made hereunder except upon approval by the Governor-General; three hundred and seventy thousand pesos.

BUREAU  OF  NAVIGATION.

Bureau of Navigation: For salaries and wages of—
Office of the Director:
Director of Navigation, at ten thousand pesos per annum; Assistant Director of Navigation, at six thousand five hundred pesos per annum, who shall perform the duties of Superintendent of Interisland Transportation: Provided, That so long as the division of port works remains a part of this Bureau the salary of the Director of Navigation shall be at the rate of twelve thousand pesos per annum and that of the Assistant Director of Navigation, at seven thousand five hundred pesos per annum; assistant to the Director, at six thousand pesos per annum : one chief clerk, class five; one clerk, class eight; one clerk. Class h; two employees, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each; two messengers, at three hundred pesos per annum each.

Division of accounts:
One cashier, class six: one clerk, clas: one messenger, at three hundred  pesos per annum.

Division of vessels:
Marine superintendent, at five thousand pesos per annum: Provided, That during the time ihis position shall be filled by an officer detailed from ,the United States Navy, said officer shall receive per diems of ten pesos in lieu of the salary of the position; one inspector of machinery, class one: one property clerk, class six; two clerks, class eight; one clerk, class nine; one clerk, Class H; one storekeeper, class nine: one messenger, at three hundred pesos per annum; for the compensation of officers, petty officers, and crews of cutters and launches: Provided, That a ten per centum increase in salaries may be paid to officers and crew on the cutter assigned to duty transporting lepers to Culion; cargadores; subsistence of fleet: Provided, That the officers assigned to duty aboard the cutter to be designated by the Director of Navigation as subject primarily to emergency service requirements shall be allowed three pesos per diem each for subsistence: Provided, further, That funds herein appropriated may be used for subsistence and aid of shipwrecked sailors or other persons in distress as demanded by the laws of humanitv and the customs of maritiine nations, and for subsistence of postal clerks while on duty on vessels of the Bureau of Navigation.

Interisland transportation:
One clerk, class seven; two clerks, class nine; one messenger, at three hundred pesos per annum.

Miscellaneous:
For temporary employees; for accrued   leaves  of absence; for salary allowances to employees appointed outside of the Philippine Islands.

Contingent expenses:
For contingent expenses, including the purchase and repair of office furniture and equipment; purchase of office supplies; per diems of officers and employees when traveling on official business; transportation of officers, employees, and supplies; cablegrams; postage ami telegrams: printing and binding; maintenance of Engineer Island; purchase and construction of minor water craft; salvage of wrecks and disabled vessels; purchase of coal and supplies; repair of vessels: pilotage; other incidental expenses: Provided, That the funds appropriated under this head shall be available for the purchase of medals and other rewards when authorized by resolution of the Philippine Legislature, for officers and employees of the Bureau who display especial bravery or render distinguished service in having life and property; seven hundred and forty-seven thousand pesos: Provided, That in the event that the division of vessels he not required to maintain a cable ship, the sum of fifty thousand pesos of the above appropriation shall revert to the general  fund.

Light-house division:
Office of the light-house engineer: For salaries and wages of light-house engineer, at six thousand pesos per annum: Provided, That during the time tins position shall be rilled by an officer detailed from the Army or Navy said officer shall receive per diems of ten pesos in lieu of the salary of the position; assistant lighthouse engineer, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum: Provided, That during the time this position shall be filled by an officer detailed from the Army or Navy said officer shall receive per diems of live pesos in lieu of the salary of the position; one clerk, class six: one clerk. Class A: one clerk, Class H; one clerk, Class J ; one messenger, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum : one draftsman, class seven; pay of junior draftsmen; pay of mechanics and laborers in the light-house machine shop: for temporary employees: for accrued leave; for salary allowances to employees appointed outside of the Philippine Islands.

Office of the light-house inspector: For salaries and wages of light-house inspector, at four thousand five hundred pesos per annum: Provided, That during the time this position shall be filled by an officer detailed from the Army or Navy said officer shall receive per diems of ten pesos in lieu of the salary of the position; one clerk, class seven; one clerk, Class A; one messenger,at the three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; one chief of light-keepers hundred and sixty pesos per annum; one chief of light-at one thousand four hundred and forty pesos per annum; beepers, at nine hundred and sixty pesos per annum each; a light-keepers, at eight hundred and forty pesos per annum each one light-keepers at seven hundred and twenty pesos each: twenty-two light-keepers, at six hundred pesos each; fifty-nine light-keepers, at four hundred and pesos per annum each; twenty first-class apprentices, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each; ten second-class apprentices, at one hundred and eighty pesos per annum each; pay of keepers of lesser classes, laborers, and boatmen; purchase of rations for employees at Ambolon, Apo Reef, Cape Engaño, Mataja, Ocata, San Bernardino, San Miguel, Sialat Point, Tanguingui, Ungay Point, La Monja and for such other light stations as it may, in the opinion of the Director of Navigation, be necessary to ration, and for newly appointed keepers and apprentices; for temporary employees; for accrued leave; for salary allowances to employees appointed outside of the Philippine Islands.

Contingent expenses:
For contingent expenses, including purchase and repair of office furniture and equipment; purchase of ollice supplies; transportation of officers, employees, and supplies; hire of transportation from the city of Manila; street-car tickets; per diems or allowances in lieu thereof; cablegrams: post age and telegrams; printing and binding; for necessary repairs to light stations now in operation, including subsistence, local transportation, ami so forth, to preserve public property and to avoid future extensive repairs; illuminating oil for light, stations; supplies and equipment for light stations,"including tools and instruments, paints, cleaning materials, and so forth; furniture and implement cases for light stations; house rent for keepers not provided with dwellings; repair, maintenance, and up-keep of buoys now in position: other incidental expenses, up-keep of the new semaphore tower on Engineer Island, and so forth; two hundred and eighty-two thousand pesos.

Division of port works:
One chief'of division, at eight thousand pesos per annum; one chief clerk, class five: one clerk, class seven; one stenographer, class eight; one clerk, class nine; one clerk, at one thousand pesos per annum; one messenger, Class J; two assistant engineers, class one: one assistant engineer, class three; one assistant engineer, class four: three assistant engineers, class five; two assistant engineers, class six; two surveyors, class six ; one transitman, at three thousand pesos per annum: one computer, at three thousand pesos per annum; three overseers, class seven; two dredge overseers, class seven; two dredge overseers, class eight; three inspectors, class nine; one assistant transitman. class nine; two hydrographers, at two thousand one hundred and sixty pesos per annum each; one draftsman, Class D: one junior draftsman, Class F; one junior, draftsman, Class H: two dredge captains, Class D; four dredge engineers, at nine bundled pesos per annum each; four dredge mates, Class J; two dredge levermen, Class I; for the hire of skilled, semiskilled, and unskilled labor and such other employees as may be necessary: for accrued leaves of absence; for salary allowances to employees appointed outside of the Philippine Islands.

Contingent expenses:
For contingent expenses, including the purchase and repair of office equipment and furniture: purchase of office supplies; per diems of officers and employees while on official business; transportation of officers, employees, and supplies; cablegrams; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; purchase of supplies and material; maintenance, renewal, and repairs to plant and the construction of such additional appliances as may be necessary to economically operate the present plant: harbor investigations; hire of transportation from city of Manila; street-car tickets; other incidental expenses; maintenance and repair of existing port improvements and the removal of obstructions to navigation; three hundred and four thousand pesos.
Transfer of funds.

In all for the Bureau of Navigation, one million two hundred and eighty-three thousand pesos: Provided, however, That with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police funds hereby appropriated for one division of the Bureau of Navigation maybe transferred to either or both of the other divisions.

Subject to approval by the Governor-General, work may be executed by the division of port works for private parties, the total expenses thereof to be collected and deposited to the credit of appropriations for current expenses of the division of port works and become available therefor.

BUREAU  OF  POSTS.

Bureau of Posts: For salaries and wages of—
Office of the Director:
Director of Posts, at twelve thousand pesos per annum: Provided, That the Director of Posts shall act as postmaster of Manila, ex officio: Assistant Director of Posts, at seven thousand five hundred pesos per annum : superintendent postal division, at six thousand live hundred pesos per annum; superintendent telegraph division, at six thousand pesos per annum; chief postal savings hank division, at six thousand pesos per annum; one chief clerk, class two. one disbursing officer, class four; two clerks, class five; five clerks, Class six: six clerks, class seven; ten clerks, class eight; two clerks. Class A; six clerks, Class D; eight clerks, Class F; three clerks. Class G ; three clerks, Class H; one clerk, Class I; one clerk. Class J ; one mechanic, at two hundred pesos per month; two mechanics, at seventy pesos per month each; two mechanics, at forty pesos per month each; four mechanics, at thirty-five pesos per month each; one messenger, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; seventeen employees, at thirty pesos per month each.

District  inspectors :
Four district inspectors, class five; four district inspectors, class six; six district inspectors, class seven.

Post-offices:
One cashier Manila post-office, class two, whose duties shall include the receipt and accounting in the name of the postmaster for all moneys which may he received in the transaction of the postal, money-order, telegraph, telephone, and Postal Savings Bank business at said post-office, and who shall sign, in the name of the postmaster, such accounts and official papers, including money orders, as the Director of Posts may direct; two postmasters, class lour: three post masters, class five; five postmasters, class six; six postmasters, class seven; fifteen postmasters, class eight; fifteen postmasters, class nine: five postmasters, Class B: ten postmasters, Clss C; ten postmasters. Class D; ten postmasters, Class E; ten postmasters. Class F: ten postmasters, Class G; ten postmasters, Class H; twenty-five postmasters, Class I; twenty-five postmasters, Class J ; five hundred postmasters at not exceeding four hundred and twenty pesos per annum each; one operator, class four; three operators, class five, six operators, class six; ten operators, class wven : ten operators, class eight; ten operators, class nine; fifteen operators. Class C; twenty operators. Class H; thirty operators, Class I; forty operators, Class J : three clerks, class four; one clerk, class five: five clerks, class six; six clerks, class seven; ten clerks, class eight: ten clerks, class nine; four clerks, Class A; seven clerks, Class C; eight clerks, Class D; eight clerks, Class E; six clerks. Class F ; fourteen clerks, Class G; twelve clerks, Class H; twenty clerks. Class I; thirty clerks, at not exceeding four hundred and twenty pesos per annum each; one watchman, Manila post-office, at one hundred and fifty pesos per month; fifty-five employees. Manila post-office, at thirty-five pesos per month each; ninety employees at other post-offices, at twenty-five pesos per month each.

Mail transportation:
Postal clerks on mail trains and mail steamers, at not exceeding two thousand four hundred pesos per annum each; one foreman, Manila post-office, at two hundred pesos per month; one driver, Manila post-office, at sixty pesos per month; eight drivers, Manila post-office, at thirty pesos per- month each.

Construction, maintenance, and repair of telegraph and telephone lines:
Ten linemen, class eight; twenty linemen, class nine; twenty linemen, class ten; fifteen linemen, Class II; two hundred and twenty linemen, at not exceeding four hundred and twenty pesos per annum each; semiskilled, unskilled, and emergency labor; one cable seaman, at two hundred pesos per month.

Free-delivery service:
Four letter carriers, Manila, Class B; twenty letter carriers, Manila, Class D; letter carrier: For other offices at rates of compensation to be fixed by the Director of Posts, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce ami Police, not to exceed one hundred thousand pesos.

Miscellaneous:
For hire of temporary employees: For accrued leaves of absence; for salary allowance to employees appointed outside of the Philippine Islands.

Contingent expenses:
Inland mail transportation; railroad mail transportation; sea mail transportation to foreign ports; mail transportation through foreign countries; repairs and maintenance old telegraph lines; repairs and maintenance old telephone lines; expenses of cable ship; transportation and traveling expenses of linemen, including allowance of twenty pesos per month for each authorized horse furnished and maintained by said linemen for official transportation: Provided, That the Director of Posts is hereby authorized, with the prior approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Police, to advance from this appropriation to linemen not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five pesos for the purchase of each native horse or four hundred pesos for the purchase of each Australian horse or motor cycle required for transportation, such advance to be reimbursed to the Government by monthly deductions of ten per centum in the case of the purchase of a native horse and twenty per centum in case of the purchase of an Australian horse or motor cycle from the linemen's salaries; per diems. traveling expenses and transportation of district inspectors traveling on official business ; per diems, traveling expenses and transportation of other officers and employees traveling on official business; transportation of supplies; cablegrams; printing and binding; letter carriers' equipment; mail equipment; telegraph and telephone line supplies; office supplies for telegraph and telephone lines; general office supplies; manufacture of stamps; official transportation in city of Manila: ten stamp agencies in Manila, at four pesos per month each; rents; light; telephones; electric current, for ventilating and power purposes; repairs to offices; repairs to furniture and fixtures; other incidental expenses; ice and water; handling telegrams by commercial companies; bond premiums paid by Bureau of Posts secret work; repairs to mail dock; miscellaneous; six hundred and eighty thousand pesos.

BUREAU OF COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.

Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey: For per diem of ten pesos for the officer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey detailed as Chief of Bureau;. salaries and wages of two clerks, class six; one clerk, class seven; one clerk, at three thousand pesos per annum: one stenographer, class eight; two clerks, at one thousand five hundred pesos per annum each; four clerks, Class D; four clerks. Class E; five clerks, Class F; two clerks, Class G; one clerk, Class H: four employees, at thirty pesos per month each; emergency employees to replace employees on leave; commutation of accrued leave duo employees; pay and rations of petty officers and crews of vessels: hire of field hands and other extra labor for shore parties; reimbursement to Bureau of Treasury for watchman service maintained in Intendencia Building; for contingent expenses, including repairs of steamers and launches: Provided, That minor and emergency repairs may he made at the nearest available point when the vessels an away from Manila without the intervention of the Bureau of Navigation ; supplies for maintenance and operation of steamer and launches, medical treament, medicines, and uniforms for petty officers and crews on the Insular rolls; purchase or hire of pack and saddle animals, camp outfits, supplies, signal lumber, and other incidental field expenses, purchase of office supplies, furniture, and repairs, printing, binding, map printing, and photolithography, notices to mariners, photographing original maps, and so forth: cablegrams, postage, telegrams; transportation and actual subsistence of officers and employees when traveling on Insular business: and other incidental expenses; one hundred and ninety-five thousand pesos.
 
BUREAU  OF  LABOR.

For salaries of Director of Labor and Assistant Director of Labor ; compensation of employees; and contingent expenses; eighteen thousand five hundred pesos.

CONSULTING  ARCHITECT.

For salary of the Consulting Architect, twelve thousand pesos: Provided, That the expense of authorized assistants, office supplies, per diems and other necessary charges shall be paid from appropriations for die Bureau of Public Works.

SUPERVISING  RAILWAY  EXPERT.

Supervising Railway Expert: For salaries and wages of Supervising Railway Expert, at twenty-four thousand pesos per annum; one chief clerk, class four; three inspecting engineers, class one; one clerk, class seven; one messenger, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; temporary employees; contingent expenses, including purchase and repair of office equipment and furniture; purchase of office supplies; transportation of officers, employees, and supplies; street-car tickets; per diems or allowances in lieu thereof; cablegrams; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; rents; inspection of materials in the United States; incidental expenses, janitor service, ice, water, and so forth; thirty-six thousand pesos.

DEPARTMENT  OF  FINANCE  AND  JUSTICE.

BUREAU  OF  JUSTICE.

Bureau of Justice: For salaries and wages of Attorney-General, at twelve thousand pesos per annum; Solicitor-General, at ten thousand pesos per annum; Assistant Attorney-General, at eight thousand pesos per annum : one assistant attorney, at six thousand pesos per annum; one assistant attorney, at five thousand five hundred pesos per annum; two assistant attorneys, at five thousand pesos per annum each ; two assistant attorneys, at four thousand five hundred pesos per annum each ; two assistant attorneys, at four thousand pesos per annum each: two assistant attorneys, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum each; chief clerk, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one employee, class five; one employee, class six; four employees, class seven; one employee, class eight; one employee, class nine; one employee, class ten; one employee. Class A: one employee, Class B; one employee, at one thousand three hundred and twenty pesos per annum; two employee's, Class D; one employee, Class E; two employees, Class I; one employee, Class J : one employee, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum : three employees, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each: one head janitor, at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; one janitor, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum : two janitors at one hundred and eighty pesos per annum each: for hire of emergency employees under approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice; for accrued leaves of absence; for contingent expenses, including the purchase of office furniture and repairs: purchase of office supplies; per diems of officers and employees when traveling on official business; transportation of officers, employees, and supplies; cablegrams; postage and telegrams; printing  and binding; rent and other incidental expenses; one hundred and forty thousand pesos.

BUREAU  OF  CUSTOMS,

Bureau of Customs: for salaries and wages of—
Office of the Insular Collector of Customs :
Insular Collector of Customs, at twelve thousand pesos per annum; one special agent, at five thousand pesos per annum; one special agent, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; one law clerk, class four: one interpreter and translator, class.six; one clerk, class seven.

Cashier's division :
Cashier, class one; accountant, class  four; one teller, class six; one assistant teller, class nine; one clerk, class ten; three clerks, Class B; one clerk, Class D; two clerks. Class G; one clerk, Class H; one clerk, Class I ; one clerk, Class J ; one clerk, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum : one messenger, at twenty pesos per month.

Board of protests and appeals:
One clerk, class five; one clerk, class eight; one clerk, Class H, one clerk, Class I; one clerk, Class J.

Revenuecutter section :
One captain, class eiaiit, two captains, class nine, two mates, Class D, two engineers. Class G, with commutation of rations atone peso per diem each; twovassistant engineers, at thirty-five pesos per month each, four quartermasters, at twenty-live pesos per montn each, two stewards, at thirty pesos per month each, six firemen, at twenty-two pesos per month each, eight sailors, at twenty pesos per month each, with commutation of rations at thirty centavos per diem each.

Interior ports.
One coast district inspector of customs, class eight; one clerk, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum.

Office of the Insular Deputy Collector of Customs:
Insular Deputy Collector of Customs, at  eight  thousand five hundred pesos pur annum; one clerk, class six; one messenger, at thirtv pesos per month.

Marine division :
Child of division, class three; two clerks, class six; one clerk, class eight ; one clerk, class ten; one clerk, Class A; three clerks,
Class D: .clerk, Class F; two clerks, Class I; two clerks, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each; one messenger, at twenty pesos per month.

Appraiser's division :
Appraiser of the port, class one; assistant appraiser of the port, Class three: two assistant appraisers, class four; two assistant appraiser, elass live: live examiners, class six; five examiners, class seven; ten examiners, class eight; eight examiners, class nine; one stenographer, class seven; two examiners, Class D; two examiners, Class E; one clerk, Class I; two clerks, Class J; four clerks, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each; two employees, at twenty pesos per month each ; two messengers, at fifteen pesos per month each,: two weigher: Class F: eight weighers, Class J.

Baggage division :
Chief of division, class five; one inspector, class eight; three inspectors, idass ten; one inspector. Class D; four laborers, at twenty pesos per month each.

Liquidation division :
Chief ot division, class five; one clerk, class seven; one clerk, class eight : one clerk, class nine: one clerk, class ten; three liquidators, Class D; one liquidator, Class E; one clerk, Class F; one clerk, Class H ; one clerk, at twenty pesos per month; one messenger, at fitteen pesos per month.

Office of the Insular Surveyor of Customs:
Insidar Surveyor of Customs, at eight thousand pesos per annum; one admeasuier, class five; two clerks, class seven; one clerk, Class E; on,, berthing officer, class six; two bay and river guards,Class H ; one bay and river guard, Class I; one messenger, at thirty per month.

Semaphore section :
One superintendent, at one thousand two hundred and sixty pesos per annum: one assistant superintendent, at eight hundred and forty pesos pur annum; three messengers, at thirty-two pesos per month each.

Hull and boiler section:
One supervising inspector, class two; one boiler inspector, class five; one boiler inspector, class six; one hull inspector, class six; one clerk, Class E ; one clerk, Class I.

Inspector's  division:
Chief of division, class four; one inspector, class six; one inspector, class  seven;  one  inspector,  class  eight;  two  inspectors, class lime; one inspector, class ten; thirteen inspectors, Class A; one inspector, Class B; two inspectors, Class C; two inspectors, Class D; one inspector, Class E; one clerk. Class F; one clerk, Class G; twenty guards; Class I; eighty guards, Class J.

Office of the Insular Special Deputy Collector of Customs:
Insular Special Deputy Collector of Customs, at seven thousand two hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, class seven; one clerk,. Class I.

Immigration division :
Chief of division, class three: one inspector, class six; one inspector, class seven; one stenographer, class seven; two immigratioilr inspectors, class eight; one immigration inspector, class nine; one Chinese interpreter, Class A; one clerk, Class H; three employees, at twenty-five pesos per month each ; one messenger, at twenty pesos per month.

License division:
Chief of division, class six: one clerk. Class F; one clerk, Class G; one clerk, Class II.

Office of the chief clerk:
Chief clerk, class one: one stenographer, class eight.

Correspondence and record division:
Chief of division, class five; assistant chief of division, class seven; one clerk, class eight; one clerk, class ten; one clerk, Class D; one clerk, Class E; one clerk. Class F; one clerk, Class G; five clerks, Class H: four clerks. Class I; three clerks, Class J; one employee, at forty pesos per month ; one employee, at thirty pesos per month; two messengers, at thirty pesos per month each; two. messengers, at twenty-five pesos per month each; five messengers, at fifteen pesos per month each.

Property section:
Property clerk, class six: one storekeeper, class eight; one clerk, Class G; three employees, at thirty pesos per month each; two cocheros, at twenty-five; pesos per month each.

Statistical division :
Chief of division, class five; one clerk, class six; one clerk, class eight; three clerks, class nine; one clerk, class ten; one clerk, Class A; two clerks, Class B: two clerks, Class C; two clerks, Class D; one clerk, Class E; two clerks. Class F: two clerks, Class G; two clerks, Class H; two clerks, Class I.

Harbor launch division :
One launch foreman, class eight; one assistant launch foreman, Class C; one patron, Class D; five patrons, Class F; one patron, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; one engineer, Class B; five engineers, Class F: one engineer. Class H ; two engineers, Class I; two assistant engineers, Class I ; one engineer, Class J; twelve firemen, at four hundred pesos per annum each : five quartermasters, at twenty-five pesos per month each ; twenty sailors, at twenty pesos per month each; one messenger, at twenty pesos per month.

Superintendent, of building section:
One superintendent of building, at nine hundred pesos per annum; five night watchmen, Class H: two night watchmen, Class I; one laborer, Class H; thirteen janitors, at thirty pesos per month each; one telephone operator, Class H.

Iloilo custom-house:
Collector of customs, at eight thousand pesos per annum; deputy collector of customs, class five; surveyor of customs, class six; one clerk, class six; one appraiser, class seven; two clerks, class eight; one clerk, class nine; two inspectors, class ten; one inspector, Class A; three clerks, Class D; one clerk. Class E; one engineer, Class G; one clerk, Glass G; one patron,. Glass H; one clerk, Class I; two guards, Class I ; ten guards, Class J; one fireman, Class J; one sailor, Class J; three messengers, at thirty pesos per month each; two lookouts, at twenty-five pesos per month each; one laborer, at twenty-five pesos per month; one clerk, at twenty pesos per month: two sailors, at twenty pesos per month each; two laborers, at fifteen pesos per month each; not exceeding one thousand two hundred pesos for emergency guards.

Cebu custom-house:
Collector of customs, at eight thousand pesos per annum; deputy collector of customs, class five; surveyor of customs, class six; two clerks, class six ; one appraiser, class seven; two clerks, class eight; two in-peofors, class ten: one inspector, Class A; one clerk, Class D: .me clerk. Class F; one patron, Class G; one engineer, Class G: one harbor policeman, Class G; four employees, Class H; two firemen, Class J: twenty guards, Class J; three sailors, at thirty pesos per month each: one employee at thirty pesos per month; one employee, at twenty pesos per month.

Balabac custom-house:
Deputy collector of customs, class six; one clerk, Class D; three boatmen, at lifteen pesos per month each.

Miscellaneous:
For a fund to be expended  in the discretion of the  Insular Collector of Customs for pay of secret agents while employed in apprehending violators of the customs, immigration, and revenue lor hire of temporary employees, and for accrued leave.

Contingent expenses:
Contingent expenses, including purchase and repair of office apparatus, fixtures, and supplies; per diems of officers emloyees when traveling on official business; and, in the discretion of the Insular Collector of Customs, of officers and employees temporarily on duty at places other than their regular atations: transportation of officers and employees and supplies; cablegrams; postage, and telegrams: printing and binding; a fund to be expended in the discretion of the Insular Collector of Customs for the expenses of secret agents in the detection and punishment of violators of the customs, immigration, and revenue laws; expenses of harbor launches and customs cutters; fuel: supplies; emergency rations; repairs and alterations: Provided, That minor norgeiiey repairs mav be made at the nearest available point it the intervention of the Bureau of Navigation; other incidental purposes: clothing allowance of three uniforms, three hats, three neckerchiefs per annum for each petty officer and of crew of customs launches and cutters; rent of custom-house of Cebu; for the deportation of Chinese who failed to comply with the provisions of Act Numbered Seven hundred and the Philippine Commission; subsistence of customs officials while on duty on board United States Army and Navy vessels; or expert testimony of merchants and services of marine s or other persons appointed on marine examination boards; and maintenance of land transportation; hire of coolies for handling supplies, for electric light, fuel, ice, laundry, subscriptions, telephone service, miscellaneous court fees, and other incidentals; seven hundred and eighty thousand pesos: Provided, That the expenditures on account; of' the customs service in the Moro Province shall be made under the general authority of the Insular Collector of Customs, as provided by section thirty-four of Act Numbered Seventeen  Hundred  and  ninety-two, but appropriations therefor shall be made from the funds of the Moro Province by the legislative council thereof, in accordance with the requirements of said service as indicated by the Insular Collector of Customs, upon the approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice: And provided, That the cost and maintenance of customs cutters and other vessels detailed for patrol in the Moro Province may be borne in whole or in part by the appropriation for the Bureau of Customs: And provided further, That the Bureau of Customs is authorized to charge for services and supplies furnished to any other branch of the Government or other persons, and that the collections resulting from such charges and the net proceeds of all receipts except for export, import, wharfage, and immigration dues, coastwise license fees, and customs revenue stamps shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation of that Bureau and lie available for expenditure in addition to the amounts specifically appropriated for the Bureau of Customs.

BUREAU  OF  INTERNAL  REVENUE.

Bureau of Inlernal Revenue: For salaries and wages of Collector of Internal Revenue, at twelve thousand pesos per annum; Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, at eight thousand five hundred pesos per annum,: Provided, That upon the vacation of the office by the present incumbent the salary shall be seven thousand five hundred pesos per annum; one Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, at six thousand pesos per annum: chief clerk, class four; law clerk, class four; cashier, class four: three chief's of division, class four; five chiefs of division, class five; five clerks, class six: four clerks, class seven; nine clerks, class eight; four clerks, class nine; three clerks, class ten; four clerks. Class A; one clerk, Class B; two clerks, Class C; one clerk, at one thousand three hundred and twenty pesos per annum; seventeen clerks. Class D: thirteen clerks, Class E; sixteen clerks, Class F: twenty-one clerks. Class G; twelve clerks, Class H; fifty-two clerks. Class I; twenty-two clerks, Class J; seven clerks, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each; twenty-five clerks, at three hundred pesos per annum each; six clerks, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each; one messenger, at three hundred pesos per annum; two messengers, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each ; one agent at large, at four thousand five hundred pesos per annum ; six agents, at four thousand pesos per annum each ; nine agents, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum each ; fourteen agents, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum each; three agents, at three thousand pesos per annum each; twelve agents, at: two thousand eight hundred pesos per annum each: nineteen agents, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum each ; one wacthman at fifty pesos per month; one janitor, at forty pesos per month; ten laborers, at seventy centavos per clay each; temporary employees, engaged in stamping and numbering internal-revenue stamps licenses, cedulas, and so forth, indexing cedula records, banqueros, launch employees, and so forth; temporary storekeepers, at not to exceed seventy pesos per month each; accrued leaves of absence;  for salary allowances to employees appointed outside of the Philippine Islands; contingent expenses, including purchase and repair of office equipment and furniture; purchase of office supplies; transportation of officers, employees, and supplies; hire of transportation from the city of Manila; street-car tickets: per dicms or allowances in lieu thereof; cablegrams; postage and telegrams; bond premiums; printing and binding; janitor's supplies; gauging instruments; riding equipment for agents; telephones: maintenance and repair of launches: Provided, That minor and emergency repairs may be made, without the intervention of the Bureau of Navigation, at the nearest available point when vessels are away from Manila; allowance of twenty pesos per month each to agents in the provinces for each authorized. horse furnished and maintained by said agents for official transportation: Provided, That the Collector of Internal Revenue is hereby authorized, wiih the prior approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice, to advance from this appropriation to agents not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five pesos for the purchase of each native horse or four hundred pesos for the purchase of each Australian horse required for transportation, such advances to be reimbursed to the Government by monthly deductions of ten per centum in case of the purchase of a native horse and twenty per centum in case of the purchase of an Australian horse from the agents' salaries; special fund to be expended in the discretion of the Collector of Internal Revenue for expenses incident to the detection and punishment of violators of the Internal Revenue Law, six thousand pesos; newspapers, magazines, periodicals, washing, and other incidental expenses; five hundred and seventy five thousand pesos.
BUREAU OF THE TREASURY.

Bureau of the Treasury: For salaries and wages of the Insular Treasurer, at twelve thousand pesos per annum; Assistant Insular Treasurer, at seven thousand five hundred pesos per annum; chief of division of banks and currency, at seven thousand pesos per annum: one paying teller, class one; one receiving teller, class two: one chief clerk, class three; two clerks, class five; six clerks, class six: three clerks, class seven; two clerks, class eight; three clerks, class nine: one clerk, Class A; two clerks, Class D; two clerks. Class F; one clerk, Class G; two clerks, Class H; two clerks, Class I; two clerks. Class J: one special messenger, at six hundred pesos per annum; one employee, at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; two messengers, at thirty pesos per month each; three watchmen, at one hundred and fifty pesos per month each, and three guards at sixty pesos per month each; temporary employees; accrued leaves of absence; salary allowance to employees appointed outside of the Philippine Islands; contingent expenses, including purchase and repair of office equipment and furniture; purchase of office supplies; transportation of officers, employees, and supplier: hire of transportation from city of Manila: street-car tickets; per diems or allowances in lieu thereof; cablegrams; postage and telegrams : printing and binding; maintenance of office; bond premium of officials and employees; other incidental expenses; insurance on funds: one hundred and twenty-six thousand pesos: Provided, That hereafter, and until specifically otherwise provided by law the funds of the Bureau of the Insular Treasury shall he available for the payment of additional compensation, upon the approval of the Governor-General, to such persons as shall be designated to make an examination of the books and accounts of the Insular Treasurer and Insular Auditor, and an examination and count of the moneys in the hands of the Insular Treasurer; and to count and verify mutilated currency unfit for further circulation in the Treasury prior to the destruction thereof as required by law, tlie provisions of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding.

DEPARTMENT  OF  PUBLIC  INSTRUCTION.

BUREAU  OF  EDUCATION.

For salaries and wages: Director of Education, at twelve thousand pesos per annum; Assistant Director, at seven thousand five hundred pesos per annum; Second Assistant Director, at six thousand pesos per annum; one employee, class five; one employee, at three thousand nine hundred and sixty pesos per annum; two employees, class six; five employees, class seven; seven employees, class eight; four employees, class nine; three employees, Class D; two employees, Class E; four employees, Class H; four employees, Class I; two employees, Class J.

Offices of division superintendents:
One division superintendent, at six thousand pesos per annum; three division superintendents, at five thousand pesos per annum each; eleven division superintendents, at four thousand five hundred pesos per annum each; six division superintendents, at four thousand pesos per annum each : seven division superintendents, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum each; eight division superintendents, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum each; three employees, class nine: ten eniployees. Class D; eighteen employees, Class E; eight employees. Class F; eleven employees, Class I; eleven employees. Class J : Provided, That salaries may be paid to school superintendents and employees, irrespective of the divisions to which they are assigned, the provisions of Act Numbered Six hundred and seventy-two to the contrary notwithstanding.

Insular schools:
Superintendent of the Philippine Normal School, at six thousand pesos per annum; superintendent of the Philippine School of Arts and Trades, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one superintendent, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum.

General teaching force:
One teacher, class five: twelve teachers, class six; fifty teachers, class seven: one hundred teachers, at three thousand pesos per annum each; one hundred and fiftv teachers, class eight, one hundred and forty teachers, at two thousand six hundred pesos per annum each; two hundred and ninety teachers, class nine; fifty-two teachers, class ten; fourteen teachers. Class D: twenty teachers, Class E; thirty-four teachers. Class F; thirty teachers, Class G; forty teachers, Class H: two hundred and thirty teachers, Class I; one hundred and thirty-two teachers. Class J: Provided, That the Director of Education, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, may detail or assign any teacher to perform such duties in any branch or division of the Bureau of Education as the service may require, the provisions of Act Numbered Four hundred and thirty to the eontrary notwithstanding; one instructor of nursing, class nine: teachers in the night schools at not to exceed three pesos per night each, and principals at not to exceed four pesos per night each.

Division of the American  Circulating Library Association of Manila:
One superintendent and librarian, at three thousand pesos per annum; two assistant librarians, class eight: one assistant librarian, Class A; one employee, Class H; throe messengers, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each: Provided, That all receipts on every account of the American Circulating Librarv of Manila shall be duly accounted for to the Auditor and deposited by the librarian in the Insular Treasury: And provided further, That a permanent appropriation of all receipts deposited under the preceding provisions, except from the sale of catalogues and lists, is hereby made for the purchase of books and pamphlets for the library, such funds to be withdrawn upon requisition of the Director of Education: And provided further, That the American Circulating Library of Manila may purchase books, periodicals, and other reading matter without ihe intervention of the Purchasing Agent, the provisions of Aci Numbered One hundred and forty-six, as amended, to the contrary notwithstanding.

Miscellaneous:
Normal School: Four janitors, at thirty pesos per month each; six janitors, at twenty pesos per month each; Trade School, Manila, one mechanic, at two pesos and eighty centavos per diem; seven janitors, at twenty pesos per month each; for hire of emergency laborers: for hire of temporary emergency employees: one superintendent of Filipino students in the United States, at five thousand pesos per annum; salary of physician attending pupils in Insular schools, at six hundred pesos per annum; accrued leave and allowances.

Contingent expenses.
Purchase and repair of office equipment, books, industrial equipment, machinery, and tools; purchase of general supplies and industrial material : transportation of supplies; transportation of teachers and other employees to the Philippine Islands; transportation of teachers and other employees from the Philippine Islands; transportation and expenses of officers and employees traveling on official business including an allowance of not to exceed twenty pesos per month each to division superintendents and supervising teachers for official transportation in the provinces, for each authorized horse furnished and maintained by said division superintendents and supervising- teachers for official transportation, in the discretion of the Director of Education subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction: Provided, That said authorized horses shall be furnished by division superintendents and supervising teachers expense: per diems of officers and employees traveling business: hire of transportation from the city of Manila; tickets; cablegrams; postage and telegrams; printing and e and distilled water for Insular schools and dormitories; fuel and lights for Insular schools and dormitories and for electric power in Trade School : rental of buildings for Insular schools and dormitories connected therewith; for the actual and necessary cost of education and maintenance, including traveling expenses, of not io exceed seventy-flive students in the United States, at not more than one thousand pesos per annum each, under the provisions of Act Numbered Eight hundred and fifty-four, as amended, neeessarv living and incidental expenses discretion of the Secretary of Public traveling expenses of such students from to their homes in the provinces; medical attendance to indents, as provided by Act Numbered Eleven hundred and thirty-three: for the actual and necessary traveling expenses of the superintendent of Filipino students in the United States, of an assistant accompanying students from San Francisco to their places of establishment in the United States, and of necessary attendants accompanying parties of students from Manila to San Francisco: and other incidental expenses: for honoraria to be paid to teachers giving instruction in the annual vacation assembes of nineteen hundred and nine and nineteen hundred and ten at the rate of not to exceed forty pesos per month for each course given and not to exceed one hundred and twenty pesos per month to any one teacher, Act Numbered One hundred and forty-eight to the contrary notwithstanding; for fifty free scholarships of two hundred and eighty-eight pesos per annum each for the young women in the nurses training course; for the support of primary instruction among the Christian inhabitants of the Provinces of Palawan and Mindoro, to be allotted by the Secretary of Public Instruction; for the support of primary instruction in the municipalities located on "friar lands" estates, to be allotted by the Secretary of Public Instruction: for the aid of barrio schools which by reason of the precarious financial condition of the municipalities to which they pertain are unable to open or are about to close for the same reason, to the distributed to such municipalities to the credit of their respective school funds by the Director of Education with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction on the basis of the average daily attendance during the next preceding Year as set forth by the records in the office of the Director; and for the support of the special classes of superior instruction for municipal teachers created by Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and fifty-seven; three million two hundred and seventy-five thousand pesos.

PHILIPPINE  MEDICAL  SCHOOL.

Philippine Medical School: For appropriation by the board of control, for the ends specified by law, in accordance with section three, letter (c), of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifteen, including the payment of the premium on the bond of the property clerk of said school; for the establishment and maintenance of free beds for clinical purposes in a hospital or in hospitals to be designated by the board of control, one hundred and sixty thousand pesos.

The Governor-General is hereby authorized to appoint employees of the Departments and Bureaus of the Government to positions in the Philippine Medical School at a compensation to be fixed by the board of control, such compensation to be paid from the appropriation of the Philippine Medical School, Act Numbered One hundred and forty-eight; to the contrary notwithstanding.

BUREAU  OF  PRISONS.

Bureau of Prisons: For salaries and wages of Director of Prisons, at seven thousand five hundred pesos per annum; Assistant Director of Prisons, at six thousand pesos per annum; Second Assistant Director of Prisons, at three thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, class seven ; four clerks, class eight; three clerks, class nine; one baker, class nine; one senior inspector of the guard, class seven; two inspectors of the guard, class eight; three inspectors of the guard, class nine; thirty-one first-class guards: Provided, That the pay of guards, first class, shall be at the rate of one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum for the first year of service, two thousand pesos per annum for the second year, two thousand one hundred and sixty pesos per annum for the third year, and two thousand two hundred and eighty pesos per annum for the fourth year; one clerk and interpreter. Class A; one clerk, Class A; one overseer, Class C; three clerks, Class D; one overseer, Class D; two clerks, Class H; two sergeants of the guard: Provided, That the pay of sergeants shall be at the rate of seven hundred and twenty pesos per annum for the first year of service, eight hundred pesos per annum for the second year, and nine hundred pesos per annum for the third year; sixteen keepers: Provided, That the pay of keepers shall be at the rate of six hundred pesos per annum for the first year of service, seven hundred and fifty pesos per annum for the second year, eight hundred and twenty-four pesos per annum for the third year, and nine hundred pesos per annum for tlio fourth year; forty-five second-class guards: Provided, That the pay of guards, second-class, shall be at the rate of four hundred and eighty pesos per annum for the first year, six hundred pesos pur annum for the second year, six hundred and sixty pesos per annum for the third year, and seven hundred and twenty pesos per annum for ihe fourth year; two chaplains, at six hundred pesos per annum each: one matron, at sixty-two pesos and fifty centavos per month: two Sisters of Charity, at thirty pesos per month each with quarters; one cleric, Class J; two drivers, at one peso and fifty centavos per diem each; two cocheros, at eighty centavos per diem each; two laborers, at twenty-four pesos per month each; for additional compensation to executioner, twenty pesos for each exeeutive; one musical instructor, at sixty pesos per month; for such proportion of office salaries of the industrial division as shall be fixed by the Seeretary of Public Instruction.

Iwahig penal settlement:
One superintendent, at six thousand pesos per annum; one overseer and assistant superintendent, at four thousand pesos per annum; one veterinarian, at four thousand pesos per annum; one civil engineer, at four thousand pesos per annum; one farming instructor, at three thousand pesos per annum; one trades instructor, at two thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one chaplain, Class A; one assistant overseer. Class D; one clerk and assistant overseer, Class H; one assistant overseer, Class I; two assistant overseers, Class J; one matron at forty pesos per month; one foreman, at forty pesos per month : Provided, That the superintendent of the Iwahig penal settlement, with the approval of the Director of Prisons, is authorized to employ as assistant overseers such suitable colonists, prisoners who have been legally discharged, as may, in his judgment, he necessary.

Miscellaneous:
For hire of temporary employees, and for accrued leaves of absence.

Contingent expenses:
For office equipment and supplies, including ice; printing and ; per diems of ofliccrs and employees traveling on official : transportation of officers, employees, and supplies; cable-postage and telegrams: purchase, hire, and maintenance of d water transportation; illuminating supplies and fuel; and athletic supplies; ammunition for target practice, and  supply: subsistence for prisoners; hospital special diet; supplies for prisoners, including clothing, bedding, soap, tobacco, ss kits, barber supplies, and postage for prisoners mail; maintenance of young offenders in reform schools, or other authorized Private or public institutions; one suit of clothing of value not exceeding five pesos and a gratuity not exceeding ten pesos to each Prisoner upon release in cases when, in the discretion of the Director of Prisons, such clothing and gratuity are necessary; transportation of discharged prisoners to their homes in the Philippine Islands; burial of deceased prisoners; medical and hospital equipment and applies, including ice for hospitals; fuel and kitchen equipment and supplies, including ice; sanitation, cleaning septic vaults and damage; building materials and tools for general renewals and repairs; equipment and supplies for the maintenance of the prison; work' done on permanent improvements.

Iwahig penal settlement: Subsistence of prisoners; prisoners supplies, including clothing, bedding, soap, tobacco, and mess kits; postage for prisoners' mail; miscellaneous supplies for maintenance of the settlement; office supplies, including stationery and photographers' supplies; postage ; launch repairs and supplies; transportation and per diems of employees; transportation of prisoners to and from the settlement: Provided, That when, in the judgment of the Secretary of Public Instruction, a first-class prisoner merits consideration, his wife, family, or fiancee may lie permitted to join him at the Iwahig penal settlement, and that the transportation from their homes to Iwahig may be paid from this appropriation; transportation of supplies; gratuity In prisoners who occupy positions of trust; surgical instruments; band and athletic equipment; office furniture, agricultural implements, and other expenses; five hundred and sixty-four thousand eight hundred pesos.

JUDTCIARY.

Judiciary: For salaries and wages—
Supreme Court:
Chief Justice, at twenty thousand pesos per annum; six associate justices, at twenty thousand pesos per annum each; clerk of the court, at six thousand pesos per annum; two deputy clerks, at four thousand pesos per annum each; two employees, class six; three employees, class seven; one employee, Class B; one employee, Class C; one employee, Class D: one employee, Class E; one employee, Class F; one employee, Class G: three employees, Class H; one employee, Class I; five employees. Class J; five employees, at three hundred pesos per annum each; two employees, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each.

Reporter of the Supreme Court:
Eeporter of the Supreme Court, at seven thousand pesos per annum; one employee, class six; three employees, class seven; one employee, class eight; one employee, class nine; four employees, class ten; one employee, Class A;" one employee, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum.

Courts of First Instance, Manila :
Three judges, at eleven thousand pesos per annum each; clerk, at four thousand pesos per annum: one assistant clerk, at three thousand, two hundred pesos per annum ; three deputy clerks, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum each; five employees, class seven; one employee, class eight: three employees, class nine; nine employees, Class H; six employees, at three hundred pesos per annum each.

Courts of First Instance, First District:
One judge, at nine thousand pesos per annum; one employee, class eight; one employee, Class C; one clerk, Cagayan, at one thousand six hundred pesos per annum: one clerk, Isabela, at one thousand four hundred pesos per annum: two employees, Class J; two employees, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each.

Courts of First Instance, Second District:
One judge, at nine thousand pesos per annum; one clerk, Docos Norte, at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, Ilocos Sur, at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one employee, Class C; one employee, Class D: four employees, Class J; two employees, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each.

Courts of First Instance, Third District:
One judge, at ten thousand pesos per annum; one employee, class seven; one employee, class nine; one clerk, Pangasinan, at two thousand two hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, Zambales, at one thousand six hundred pesos per annum; one deputy clerk, at seven hundred and twenty pesos per annum; one employee, Class J; one employee, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; one employee, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum.

Courts of First Instance, Fourth District:
One judge, at ten thousand pesos per annum; one employee Class A; one employee, Class H; one clerk, Nueva Ecija. at one hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, Pampanga, pesos per annum; one clerk, Tarlac, at one thousand pesos per annum; one deputy clerk, at six hundred one employee, Class J; one employee, at three ty pesos per annum; one employee, at three hundred n : Ihree employees, at two hundred and forty pesos

Courts of First Instance, Fifth District:
One judge, at leu thousand pesos per annum; one clerk, Bulacan, at two thousand pesos per annum; one clerk, Rizal, at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one employee, Class C; one employee, Class G; one employee, Class H; one employee, Class J; one employee, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; two employees, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each.

Courts of First Instance, Sixth District:
One judge, at ten thousand pesos per annum; one clerk, Bataan, ai one thousand six hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, Cavite, at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum: one clerk, La Laguna at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one employee. Class C; four employees, Class J; two employees, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each; three employees, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each.

Courts of First Instance, Seventh District:
One judge at ten thousand pesos per annum: one employee, class eight; one employee, class nine; one clerk, Batangas and Mindoro, at two thousand five hundred persos per annum; one clerk Tayabas and Marinduque, at thwo thousand two hundred pesos per annum; three deputy clerks, at six hundred pesos per annum each;one deputy clerk, at five hundred pesos per annum; two employee Class J; one employee at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; four employees, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each.

Courts of first Instance, Eight district:
One judge, at ten thousand pesos per annum; one employee, class seven; one employee class nine; one clerk, Albay, at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, Ambos Camarines, at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one deputy clerk, at seven hundred and twenty pesos per annum; three employees, Class J; one employee, at four hundred and eight pesos per annum; one employee, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum.

Courts of First Instance, Ninth District:
One judge, at ten thousand pesos per annum; one employee, class seven; one employee, class nine; one clerk, Iloilo, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum; two employees, Class H; one employee, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; one employee, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum.

Courts of First Instance, Tenth District :
One judge, at ten thousand pesos per annum: one employee, at three thousand pesos per annum; one employee, class nine; one,  clerk, Antique, at one thousand six hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, Occidental Negros, at two thousand two hundred pesos per annum; two employees, Class J; one employee, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum : one employee, at three hundred pesos per annum.

Courts of First Instance, Eleventh District :
One judge, at ten thousand pesos per annum; one employee, class seven; one clerk, Bohol, at two thousand pesos per annum; one clerk, Cebu, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, Oriental Negros, at one thousand six hundred pesos per annum; one deputy clerk, at one thousand two hundred pesos per annum; one employee, Class D: two employees, Class H; two employees, Class J; one eniplovce. at ihree hundred and sixty pesos per annum; one employee, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum; one employee, at one hundred and twenty posies per annum.

Courts of First Instance. Twelfth District:
One judge, at ten thousand pesos per annum : one employee, class eight; one employee, Class A: one clerk, Leyte, at two thousand pesos per annum; one clerk, Samar, at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one deputy clerk, at seven hundred and twenty pesos per annum; one emplovee, Class I ; two employees, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each.

Courts of First Instance, Thirteenth District:
One judge, at nine thousand pesos per annum; one employee, class nine; one clerk, Misamis. at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, Surigao, at one thousand six hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, district of Lanao; at six hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, subdistrict of Dapitan, at seven hundred and twenty pesos per annum; one employee. Class J : one employee, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum ; four employees, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each.

Courts of First Instance. Fourteenth  District:
One judge, at nine thousand pesos per annum; one clerk, Fourteenth District, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum; one employee, class nine: one deputv clerk, Jolo, at eight hundred pesos per annum; three deputy clerks, at six hundred pesos per annum each; one deputy clerk. Bongao, at four hundred pesos per annum ; three employees, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each.

Courts of First Instance, Fifteenth  District:
One judge, at nine thousand pesos per annum ; one employee, Class A; one employee, Class C; one clerk, Capiz, at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, Palawan, at six hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, Sorsogon at one thousand six hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, Masbate, at eight hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, Romblon at one thousand pesos per annum; one deputy clerk, Palawan, at four hundred and eighty pesos per annum; three employees, Class J ; one employee, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum; three employees, at two hundred and forty pesos per annum each.

Courts of First Instance, Mountain District:
One judge, at nine thousand pesos per annum ; one fiscal for the Mountain Province and Nueva Vizcaya, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum ; one clerk, Mountain Province and Nueva Vizcaya, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; one clerk, La Union, at one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; one deputy clerk, Benguet, at eight hundred and forty pesos per annum; two deputy clerks, at six hundred pesos per annum each; one employee, at three hundred pesos per annum; clerical, interpreting, and translating assistants to the fiscal for the Mountain Province and Nueva Vizcaya, not to exceed one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum.

Judges of First Instance and employees at large:
Four judges, at nine thousand pesos per annum each; one em-an   emp oyees-ployee. class -even : two employees, class eight; two employees, class nine.

Court of Land  Regislration:
One judge, at ten thousand pesos per annum; one associate judge, at nine thousand pesos per annum; three associate judges, at eight thousand pesos per annum each; clerk of court, at five thousand pesos per annum; assistant clerk, at four thousand pesos per annum; one deputy clerk', class six; three deputy clerks, class nine: one employee, class six; one translator, class seven; two employees, class seven : two employees, at three thousand pesos per annum each nine: six en employees. five employees, class eight; seven employees, class employees. Class A; three employees, Class C; eighteen ass D: three employees, Class E; seven employees,  employees. Class G: ten employees, Class H; nine ass I : two employees. Class J; twelve employees, at three hundred and sixty pesos per annum each.

M iseellaneous :
For the hire of special interpreters and other emergency employees under approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice, and for accrued leaves of ahsence.

Contingent expenses:
For contingent expenses, including the purchase and repair of office equipment, furniture, and supplies; per diems of officers and employees when traveling on official business; all per diems of judges of the Courts of First Instance and of the Court of Land Registration; transportation of officers, employees, and supplies, including the traveling expenses of justices of the peace as provided by section thirty-three of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and twenty-seven ; cablegrams; postage and telegrams; printing and binding; expenses incurred under section ten of Act Numbered niirteen hundred and seventy-six, and the per diems of clerks of rourt iiniler section live of said Act, being hereby authorized, provisions of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding; for advertising not otherwise provided for; for the payment of reasonable charges authorized by the Attorney-General or chemical or medical examinations when in his opinion the provisions of section fifteen of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and eighty-seven and sections thirty-seven and forty-one of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and eighty-seven are insufficient to secure the proper administration of justice, or for other technical or professional services necessarily incident to criminal proceedings conducted in Courts of First Instance or of justices of the peace; and other incidental expenses; nine hundred thousand pesos. The Bureau of Justice shall be charged with the disbursement of appropriations for the judiciary, and the cost of supplies and traveling expenses of justices of the peace shall be a charge against said appropriations, until otherwise provided by law.

PROVINCIAL  GOVERNMENT  OF  MINDORO.

For salaries and wages of provincial governor, at three thousand six hundred and fifty pesos per annum or per diems of ten pesos to the United States Army officer filling the position by detail; provincial treasurer, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum; provincial fiscal, at nine hundred pesos per annum; for salaries and wages of such employees as may be authorized by resolution of the provincial hoard, with the approval of the Executive Secretary; for general provincial expenses, including the actual and necessary traveling expenses of ollicers and employees, under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six; for the purposes contemplated by Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and forty-five; for the transportation of supplies; purchase and repair of office equipment and furniture and purchase of office supplies: postage and telegrams; printing and binding; hire and maintenance of official transportation; sheriff's fees; court fees; premium on surety bonds: maintenance of prisoners; permanent equipment: for a fund to be expended by the provincial governor as provided in Act Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two under the head of "Provincial government of Lepanto-Bontoc;" and for other incidental expenses; thirty-one thousand four hundred pesos.

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF PALAWAN.

For salaries and wages of provincial governor, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum or per diems of ten pesos to the United States Army officer filling the position by detail; provincial secretary-treasurer, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; for salaries and wages of such einplovecs as may be authorized by resolution of the provincial board, with the approval of the Executive Secretary; for general provincial expenses, including the actual and necessary traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees, under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six: transportation of supplies; purchase and repair of office equipment and furniture: purchase of office supplies; for the purposes contemplated hv Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and forty-five; for a fund to be expended by the provincial governor as provided in Act Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two under the head of "Provincial government of Lepanto-Bontoc" postage and telegrams: maintenance of launch, repairs and fuel; permanent equipment: repairs to buildings; sheriffs fees, maintenance of prisoners.; premiums on surety bonds; and other incidental expenses: twenty-one thousand three hundred and twenty pesos.

PROVINCIAL  GOVERNMENT  OF  BATANES.

For salaries and wages of provincial governor, at three thousand six hundred pesos per annum ; provincial secretary-treasurer, at one thousand five hundred pesos per annum : for per diems of not to exceed five pesos for the third member of the provincial board for each session at which he is actually present: for salaries and wages of employees as may be authorized by resolutions of the provincial board with the approval of the Executive Secretary; for general provincial expenses, including the actual and necessary traveling expenses and per diems of officers and employees, under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and. ninety-six; transportation of supplies; purchase and repair of office equipment and furniture; purchase of office supplies; postage and telegrams; insurance; maintenance of launch; maintenance of prisoners, repairs to buildings; maintenance of official transportation; and other incidentals; eleven thousand pesos.

MISCELLANEOUS.

For ihe commutation and payment of all claims for salary, part salary, accrued leave, traveling expenses, and transportation, and so forth, lawfully incurred and not otherwise provided for, including expenditures authorized by the Secretary of War; fifty thousand pesos.

For the salary, per diems, and travel expenses of the lieutenant-governnr of Samar as authorized by Act Numbered Seventeen hundred and fifty-nine and for other official expenses in connection therewith : Provided, That no appropriation shall be set up by the Insular Auditor for this purpose until the balance of funds heretofore appropriated shall have been expended for these purposes:

For the salaries of the chief and assistant chief of police of the municipality of Cavite as provided by Act Numbered Twelve hundred eighty-one: and allowance of forty pesos per month in official transportation in kind; and for salaries of substitute, when necessary; five thousand pesos.

For part of the expenses of the Philippines Carnival for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten: Provided, That any expenditure of funds hereby appropriated shall be reimbursed by the Carnival Association from its receipts; ten thousand pesos.

For the necessary expenses of the Board of Rate Regulation, as coiueniplaied by Act Numbered Seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, including compensation of its secretary, subject to approval by the Governor-General; five thousand pesos.

For interest and court costs on internal-revenue collections refunded in accordance with decisions of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands in cases Numbered Four thousand five hundred and eighty-eight and Three thousand four hundred and seventy-three: two thousand five hundred pesos.

For the salary of the librarian and subordinate personnel of the Philippine Public Library: five thousand pesos.

For payment for legal services in behalf of this Government, or inch thereof, before Federal courts at Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere outside of the Philippine Islands, from first, nineteen hundred and nine; five thousand pesos.

For the expense of entertainment of delegates to the annual meeting of the Far Easternn Association of Tropical Medicine, to be held in  Manila  in nineteen hundred and ten; three thousand uuidred and twenty-five pesos.

For the expense of special scientific investigations regarding dangerous communicable diseases among domestic animals; ten thousand pesos.

For the relief of the municipal government of Abuyog, Leyte, on account of the loss by fire of currency upon the occasion of the Wning of the municipal building by pulajanes on August fourth, nineteen hundred and six: one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine peso.

The payment of compensation from municipal funds to municipal councilors of Danao, Cebu, for services rendered during the years nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight as sanitary inspectors is hereby authorized and confirmed, the provisions of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Lieutenant Allen L. Briggs,  Twenty-ninth Infantry, United States Army, is hereby releived from the accountability for public funds funds amounting'to four thousand four hundred and seventy-one pesos and seventy-four centavos which were stolen by his clerk, Douglass,-who is now a fugitive from justice, while said officer was acting as disbursing officer of the Insular Government in the office of the chief signal officer, Philippines Division, United States Army.

The payment from provincial funds to Angel Ungson for services rendered as temporary employee of the provincial government of Pangasinan from March second to April sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, both dates inclusive, of such amount as may have been or shall be approved by the provincial board is hereby authorized and validated, the provisions of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Total miscellaneous, ninety-eight thousand two hundred and fourteen pesos.

Total of appropriations for all pin-poses, sixteen million six hundred and twenty-seven thousand four hundred and four pesos.

SEC. 2. Sections three, live, six. and eight of Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and seventv-three shall lie considered permanent general legislation until speeilicallv amended or repealed.

SEC. 3. The appropriations herein made for each Bureau, province, or Office shall be available for payment of authorized commutations of accrued leave of absence of the officers and employees thereof, and for payment of such expenses as may accrue to such Bureaus, provinces, or Offices by reason of the operations of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and nine.

SEC. 4. After payment of all obligations actually incurred in the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine and prior years, whether or not the supplies have been delivered or services rendered prior to the conclusion of said year, including completion of permanent improvements duly authorized, all balances of appropriations heretofore made for the current expenses of Bureaus and Offices of the Insular Government shall revert to the general fund: Provided, That, subject to approval by the head of the proper Department, chiefs of Bureaus or Offices may expend on permanent improvements funds appropriated for current expenses: And provided further, That, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Department concerned, the Governor-General may direct the restoration of any part of the funds hereby reverted to the credit of the Bureau or Office for which such funds were originally appropriated: And provided further, That nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent transfer of funds by order of the Governor-General under the provisions of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and two.

SEC. 5. The appropriations for current expenses of the various Bureaus and Offices of the Government shall be available for the payment, to the credit of the fidelity bond premium fund, of two-thirds of the premium fixed, in pursuance of section three of Act Numbered Seventeen hundred and thirty-nine, on behalf of Insular officials and employees pertaining to the respective Bureaus and Offices.

SEC. 6. Collections by the Bureau of Customs as fees for the use of the two Insular Government docks at Manila, after the payment therefrom by the Bureau of Customs of the expenses of . operation of said Government docks, shall lie available for use by the Bureau of Navigation under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Police.

SEC. 7. The Governor-General is herebv authorized to transfer

personnel and appropriated funds from the Bureau of Internal Revenue to the Bureau of Audits, not exceeding the sum of seven thousand five hundred pesos, to direct the permanent reversion of not exceeding twenty-four thousand pesos of the funds appropriated by this Act for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, and to reduce the cost of the personnel of the division of accounts of the Bureau of Supply nine thousand pesos, all of which has been recommended by Messrs. Haskins and Sells in their report upon the accounting system of this Government, if after investigation such action is found to be for the good of the service.

SEC. 8. The fines imposed and collected through the efforts of the Philippines Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, cruelty to Animals, its members or its agents,  for violations of the laws enacted for the prevention of cruelty to animals and for their protection, shall belong to said society, and shall be used lo promote its objects, the provisions of section five of Act Numbered Twelve hundred and eighty-five to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 9. In view of the extraordinary service requirements which have rendered impracticable the granting ot vacation leave of firemen, Manila. absence corresponding to the calendar year nineteen hundred and eight to policemen and firemen employed by the city of Manila within the period prescribed by law, the Governor-General is hereby authorized to grant such vacation leave at any time during the calendar year nineteen hundred and nine that the requirements of the public service may permit, the provisions of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 10. This Act shall take effect as of date July first, nineteen hundred and nine.

Enacted, May 20, 1909.
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