[ Act No. 65, December 31, 1900 ]

AN ACT APPROPRIATING ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-ONE THOUSAND AND NINETY-NINE DOLLARS AND THREE CENTS, IN MEXICAN MONEY, AND ONE MILLION ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO DOLLARS AND SIXTY-SIX CENTS, IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE PAYMENT OF SUNDRY EXPENSES INCURRED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ONE, AND OTHER DESIGNATED PERIODS.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred and twenty-one thousand and ninety-nine dollars and three cents, in Mexican money, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the Chief Quartermaster of the United States Army for the Division of the Philippines, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, viz:For repairs to the roof of the hospital at Bacoor, one thousand three hundred and nine dollars; for the construction of clock in Depot Quartermaster's office, Southern Luzon, for the construction of wharf at Tayabas, and for the purchase of supplies for Government corral, three thousand one hundred and forty-six dollars; for repairs to buildings, for purchase of lime for the Depot Quartermasters, for rent of launch, for telegraph and telephone linemen, for water supply at Mariveles, for funds for the Department of Southern Luzon, for funds for the Department of the Visayas, for miscellaneous expenses and to meet emergency expenses and transfer of funds, one hundred and sixteen thousand six hundred and forty-four dollars and three cents.SEC. 2. The following sums in money of the United States are hereby appropriated out of any money in the Insular Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of current expenses of the Insular Government, for the first quarter of the year nineteen hundred and one and other designated periods, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, viz:For the Chief Quartermaster of the United States Army for the Division of the Philippines:For telegrams and telephones, twenty-seven thousand dollars; for the cleaning of cesspools, for printing of orders and blanks required in the division, and for the purchase of office furniture and fixtures, twenty-eight thousand and five hundred dollars; for rents and repairs to buildings, for reimbursement for hire of quarters in Mindanao and Jolo, for the purchase of two steam rollers, for funds for the Department of Northern Luzon, for funds for the Department of Southern Luzon, for funds for the Department of Mindanao, and Jolo, for funds for the Department of Visayas, for funds for the Depot Quartermaster at Manila, for the Santa Mesa Hospital, and to meet emergency expenses, three hundred and ninety-two thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.Total for the Chief Quartermaster of the United States Army for the Division of the Philippines, four hundred and forty-eight thousand three hundred and forty dollars.For the Disbursing Quartermaster of Civil Bureaus:For authorized salaries for the judges, officers, and employees of the Court of First Instance at Vigan, the court of the peace at Vigan, the Court of First Instance at Dagupan, the court of the peace at Dagupan, the Court of First Instance at Bacolor, the court of the peace at Bacolor, the Court of First Instance at Iloilo, the court of the peace at Iloilo, the Court of First Instance at Cebu, the court of the peace at Cebu, the Court of First Instance at Cavite, the court of the peace at Cavite, the Court of First Instance at San Isidro, the court of the peace at San Isidro, the Court of First Instance at Laoag, the court of the peace at Laoag, the Court of First Instance at La Union, the Court of First Instance at Balanga, the court of the peace at Balanga, the Court of First Instance at Bohol, the Court of First Instance at Tuguegarao, and the court of the peace at Tuguegarao, fourteen thousand eight hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty cents.For pay of civil employees in the offices of the following officers:The Board of Officers on Claims, five hundred and forty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents; the Chief Quartermaster, nine hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents; the Judge-Advocate, one thousand five hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents; the Military Secretary, three thousand five hundred and forty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents; the officer in charge of insurgent records, one thousand and twenty-four dollars and ninety-eight cents; the Supreme Court, three thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars and one cent; the Inspector-General, seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and one cent; the Adjutant-General, sixteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars, to be expended as follows: One thousand four hundred dollars to provide additional compensation, hereby authorized, to those clerks considered by the Major-General Commanding deserving of promotion; four thousand nine hundred and ten dollars to enable the Commanding General to continue in employment those clerks who have heretofore been paid from the revenue of the Islands; ten thousand two hundred and fifty dollars to enable the Commanding General to employ such additional clerks at division and department headquarters as he may deem necessary; the Disbursing Quartermaster, two thousand one hundred and eighty dollars and one cent.For laborers, janitors, and washing towels, one thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and forty-five cents; for supplies for issue and miscellaneous expenses impossible to itemize, seventy-five thousand dollars; for rents and repairs to buildings, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; for transportation, three thousand dollars.Total for the Disbursing Quartermaster of Civil Bureaus, one hundred and twenty-six thousand six hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy-four cents.For the Chief Surgeon for the Division of the Philippines:For the purchase of medical supplies for sick and indigent natives in the Department of Mindanao and Jolo, six hundred and fifty-six dollars.For the Medical Supply Depot of Manila:For laborers, nine hundred dollars.For the Medical Supply Depot, Department of Northern Luzon:For the pay of fifty vaccinators, at fifteen dollars per month, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; for the purchase of medicines for use at military prisons at Bacolor, San Isidro, and Lingayen, five hundred dollars; for the purchase of medicines for sick and indigent natives and for vaccination, five hundred dollars.Total for the Medical Supply Depot, Department of Northern Luzon, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.For the Medical Supply Depot, Department of Southern Luzon:For the pay of twenty vaccinators, at fifteen dollars per month, nine hundred dollars; for medical supplies for sick and indigent natives, six hundred dollars.Total for the Medical Supply Depot, Department of Southern Luzon, one thousand five hundred dollars.For the Pathological Laboratory:For one laborer, fifteen dollars.For the Chief Ordinance Officer:For the erection of a shed for the storage of gun carriages, caissons and limbers and for rents and repairs, four thousand five hundred dollars; for salaries, two thousand five hundred and forty-two dollars and ninety-five cents; for printing, for office furniture and for materials that may be required for repairs to buildings, roads, or other purposes in an emergency, one thousand three hundred dollars.Total for the Chief Ordnance Officer, eight thousand throe hundred and forty-two dollars and ninety-five cents.For the Chief Signal Officer:For purchases and services in connection with the construction and maintenance of telegraph, telephone, and cable lines in the Philippine Islands, fifteen thousand dollars; for the hire of native labor for city and suburban construction and repair to telegraph and telephone lines and for care of central office, power-house and shops, for messengers, and for hire of native laborers employed in cable work, one thousand and twenty dollars.Total for the Chief Signal Officer, sixteen thousand and twenty dollars.For the office of the Provost-Marshal-General and departments reporting to him:For the Department of Streets, Parks, Fire, and Sanitation:For salaries and wages, twenty-eight thousand and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; for the cleaning of Matadero and city markets and for removing night soil, one thousand two hundred and ninety dollars; for the wages of crew of launch towing garbage and stone scows, three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and seventy-five cents; for night labor on Calle Rosario and the Escolta, four hundred and fifty dollars; for operating the rock quarry at Binangonan, one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; for cleaning streets, collecting, and disposing of garbage, etc., fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents; for road material, for hire of carts, for forage, shoeing, etc., for the continuation of the opening, cleaning, and repairing of drains and sewers and for miscellaneous repairs and expenses, forty thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars; for the construction of the new Luneta, nine thousand dollars; for the rent of land on which the Paco Crematory is located, forty-five dollars; for additional laborers, hereby authorized, for street work and for operating rock quarry at Binangonan, for the purchase of hand carts and for salary of a chief clerk for the Department of Streets and Parks, two thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars.Total for the Department of Streets, Parks, Fire, and Sanitation, ninety-seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-one dollars and seventy-five cents.For the Department of Water Supply:For salaries and wages, five thousand three; hundred and thirteen dollars; for maintenance and supplies, six hundred dollars; for office expenses, seventy-five dollars; for coal, seven thousand and five hundred dollars.Total for the Department of Water Supply, thirteen thousand four hundred and eighty-eight dollars.For the Department of City Public Works:For salaries and wages, two thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents; for office expenses, seventy-five dollars; for city bridges, one thousand five hundred dollars; for Santolan road, four hundred and fifty dollars; for instruments and drawing materials, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; for Luneta sea wall, one thousand dollars; for map of Manila, three hundred dollars; for Quinta Market, forty-one thousand and two hundred dollars; for maintenance of stock, seventy-five dollars; for office transportation, five hundred and fifty dollars.Total for the Department of City Public Works, forty-eight thousand and forty-two dollars and fifty cents. For the Department of Inspection:For salary of one physician to prisoners of war at Fort Santiago, one hundred and fifty dollars; for subsistence and treatment of prisoners of war and others at the San Juan de Dios Hospital, six hundred dollars; for subsistence and treatment of indigent and insane natives and Spaniards at Hospicio de San Jose, six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.Total for the Department of Inspection, seven thousand and five hundred dollars.For the Department of Prisons:For subsistence of prisoners and lights at Presidio de Manila, four thousand and ninety dollars; for salaries of police officers and other employees, three thousand two hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; for sundry office supplies and for rents and repairs, two hundred and forty dollars.Total for the Presidio de Manila, seven thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty cents.For subsistence of prisoners and lights at the Carcel Publica, three thousand nine hundred and sixty-three dollars; for salaries, one thousand and ninety-five dollars; for office supplies and miscellaneous repairs, one hundred and eighty-six dollars.Total for the Carcel Publica, five thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars.For Bilibid United States Military Prison, for repairs to buildings, transportation, oil, wire, and miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and four dollars.Total for the Department of Prisons, twelve thousand nine hundred and forty dollars and fifty cents.For the Department of Licenses and Municipal Revenue:For salaries and wages, for stationery, printing, for transportation and for incidental expenses, six thousand five hundred and twenty dollars and fifty cents.For the Department of Cemeteries:For salaries and wages, rent of keeper's house, burial of paupers, materials and for incidental expenses, nine hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty cents.For the Department of the Board of Health for the city of Manila:For salaries and wages of the Department and office force, of municipal physicians and midwives of the San Lazaro Hospital, of the San Lazaro Leper Hospital, of the vaccine station, of the Veterinary Department, of the Plague Hospital, of the steam disinfecting plant, of the Inspector's Department, of the Bacteriological Department, of the Chemical Department, and of one physician at Malabon, ten thousand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents; for transportation, one thousand and eighty dollars; for medicines for municipal dispensary, seven hundred and fifty dollars; for preparing vaccine virus, three hundred dollars; for incidental expenses of the Veterinary Department, of the Board of Health, of the Chemical Department, of the Bacteriological Department, and of the anti-plague virus farm, nine hundred and sixty dollars; for running expenses of the San Lazaro Leper Hospital, of the Smallpox Hospital, and of the Plague Hospital, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; for fuel for the Plague Hospital and for the steam disinfecting plant, five hundred dollars; for printing, one hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty-five cents.Total for the Department of the Board of Health for the city of Manila, sixteen thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-five cents.For the Department of Police:For salaries and wages of officers and privates of Manila police force, for interpreters and other employees, thirty-three thousand five hundred and two dollars and fifty cents; for medical supplies, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; for contingent fund, seventy-five dollars.Total for the Department of Police, thirty-three thousand eight hundred and two dollars and fifty cents.For the Department of Illumination and Telephones:For maintaining street and harbor lights, for maintaining lights in public buildings, general offices, residences, police stations, public markets and in the Carcel de Bilibid, ten thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars and ninety-five cents; for rent of telephones, for lights to be installed in Divisoria Market and for additional lights in the Carcel de Bilibid, eight hundred and fifty-two dollars and seventy-five cents; for material for repairs for existing insulations and for increase of service, seven hundred and six dollars.Total for the Department of Illumination and Telephones, twelve thousand two hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy cents.For the Department of Secret Service:For salaries and wages, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for transportation of agents and for miscellaneous expenses, five hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.Total for the Department of Secret Service, two thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.For the Office of the Adjutant-General of the Provost-Marshal-General:For salaries, one thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars and eighty-four cents; for fifty orphans, at six dollars and fifty cents per month each at the Santa Isabela College, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; for meals of political prisoners confined at the Anda Street Police Station, seven hundred and forty-four dollars; for stationery, printing and advertising and for contingent expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars.Total for the Office of the Adjutant-General of the Provost-Marshal-General, five thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty-four cents.For the Department of City Schools in Manila:For salaries and wages, nineteen thousand eight hundred and forty-two dollars and twelve cents; for carromata hire, two hundred and twenty-five dollars; for books, stationery, and incidental expenses, for furniture and repairs, for oil, and for rent of building for girls school at Pasay, one thousand seven hundred and ten dollars; for expenses in opening new municipal school in North Tondo, nine hundred and thirty dollars; for expenses in opening new school at San Lazaro district, four hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty cents; for expenses in opening new school in Santa Mesa district, four hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty cents; for expenses in opening new school in San Nicolas district, four hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty cents; for new night schools in Ermita and Tondo, one thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars; for additional salary in lieu of rent for certain teachers necessary to be moved with their families from the school buildings, two hundred and seventy dollars; for janitor for municipal schools, one hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifty cents.Total for the Department of City Schools in Manila, twenty-five thousand six hundred and two dollars and twelve cents.For the Quartermaster of the Department of the Provost Guard:For rent of barracks for civil and military police, including the rent of three buildings in Malabon, seven thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty cents; for rent of schoolhouses and for rent of the Manila Central Observatory, three thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars; for rent of Sampaloc Market and of Arranque Market, seventy-five dollars; for expenses of the City Morgue, two hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents; for miscellaneous rents, for operating Manila Central Observatory, for hire of transportation for officers of the city government, for forage and shoeing, and for incidental expenses, ten thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars and nineteen cents; for alteration and repairs to civil and military police stations and for rice for indigent citizens, five thousand and eight hundred dollars; for subsistence of military prisoners, three thousand dollars.Total for the Quartermaster of the Department of the Provost Guard, thirty thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars and nineteen cents.For the Department of Municipal Records:For salaries of the judges of all branches of the Supreme Court, four thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty-six cents; for salaries of the Attorney-General's Department, three thousand nine hundred and nineteen dollars and eighty-six cents; for the employees in the civil and criminal branches, in the general offices, in the medico-legal department, three thousand four hundred and three dollars and fifty cents; for the salaries of the judges, justices of the peace, bailiffs, and other employees of the District Courts of First Instance in Binondo, Tondo, Quiapo, and Intramuros, and of the courts of the justices of the peace of Binondo, Tondo, Quiapo, and Intramuros, six thousand nine hundred and five dollars and ninety-seven cents; for salaries of the Superior Provost Court, of the Inferior Provost Court, of the Department of the Collector of Taxes, of the Department of Municipal Records and of the Department of Prison Records, two thousand and fifty-five dollars.Total for the Department of Municipal Records, twenty thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy-nine cents.For the Department of Hospitals:For salaries and wages in the First Reserve Hospital, Second Reserve Hospital, Hospital dumber Three, and Corregidor Convalescent Hospital, one thousand two hundred and forty-two dollars.Total for the Provost-Marshal-General and departments reporting to him, three hundred and thirty-five thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars and fourteen cunts, at For the General Superintendent of Education:For salaries of the General Superintendent of Education and employees of his department, including the salaries of two teachers in the pueblo of San Pedro Macati, at twenty dollars a month each, hereby authorized, two thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars; for salaries and expenses of English teachers, ten thousand dollars; for salaries of District Superintendents, five thousand dollars.Total for the General Superintendent of Education, seventeen thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars.For the Collector of Customs of the Islands and of the chief port:For regular supplies, eight thousand dollars; for incidental expenses, four hundred and sixty-three dollars and sixty-two cents; for rents and repairs to buildings, one thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty cent's; for transportation, two thousand eight hundred and ten dollars and fifty cents; for salaries and wages, including the salary of an additional employee in the Secret Service Department, hereby authorized, at one hundred dollars per month, forty thousand and forty-six dollars and fifty cents; for miscellaneous expenses, twenty-one thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-two cents; for a refund of duties to the Colton Exporting and Importing Company, hereby authorized, eight dollars and nine cents.Total for the Collector of Customs of the Islands and of the chief port, seventy-four thousand five hundred and three dollars and fifty-three cents.For the Collector of Internal Revenue of the Islands:For regular supplies, two thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents; for salaries and wages, ten thousand three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty-nine cents; for rents and repairs, nine hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-five cents; for miscellaneous and incidental expenses, one hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifteen cents; for tax refunds, three dollars; for transportation, one hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-six cents; for expenses in the Fourth District of the Visayas, one thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars.Total for the Collector of Internal Revenue and the Islands for the first quarter of the year nineteen hundred and one, fifteen thousand five hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty-four cents.For the payment of salaries and expenses for the months of July, October, November, and December, nineteen hundred, by way of deficiency, two hundred and ten dollars and fifty cents; for transportation, rents, and repairs, tax refunds, and miscellaneous expenses, for the same months, two hundred and eighty-six dollars and forty-one cents.Total for the deficiency appropriation for the Collector of Internal Revenue for the Islands, four hundred and ninety-six dollars and ninety-one cents.Grand total for the Collector of Internal Revenue for the Islands, sixteen thousand and seventy dollars and fifty-five cents.For the Auditor of the Philippine Islands:For salaries, six thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; for printing, three thousand dollars.Total for the Auditor of the Philippine Islands, nine thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.For the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands:For salaries and wages, nine hundred and eighty dollars and one cent.For the Office of Patents, Copyrights and Trade-Marks:For salary of one clerk, two hundred and twenty-five dollars.For the Forestry Bureau:For salaries and wages, eight thousand and thirteen dollars; for traveling and incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars.Total for the Forestry Bureau, nine thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars.For the Bureau of Mining:For salaries and wages, nine hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents; for the expenses of examination and inspection of mines and minerals in five districts, four hundred dollars; for transportation, ninety dollars; for binding, printing, and incidental expenses, fifty-four dollars.Total for the Bureau of Mining, one thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty cents.For the provost-marshal at Cavite:For medicines for sick prisoners confined at United States military prison at Cavite, forty-five dollars; for transportation and incidental expenses, twenty-four dollars; for salaries of interpreter, translator, clerk, and janitor, two hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; for ten privates of the provost police, at twelve dollars per month each, three hundred and sixty dollars; for a refund for the family of Teodoro Ramirez y Manalo, for clothing burned during the plague at Cavite, one hundred and fifty dollars. Total for the provost-marshal at Cavite, eight hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty cents.For the Department of Posts:For regular supplies, five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; for incidental and miscellaneous expenses, one thousand five hundred and five dollars; for rents and repairs, two thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars; for transportation, seven thousand and six hundred dollars; for salaries and wages, twenty-eight thousand and seventy dollars and fifty cents.Total for the Department of Posts, forty thousand and one hundred dollars.For the Captain of the Port at Manila:For regular supplies, one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and fifty cents; for salaries, fifteen thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-four cents.Total for the Captain of the Port at Manila, fifteen thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-four cents. For the Chief Paymaster, Department of Northern Luzon:For payment of squadron of Philippine Cavalry, thirteen thousand dollars.For Captain C. W. Mead, Thirty-sixth Infantry, United States Volunteers:To defray expenses of the location survey for the proposed railroad from Dagupan to Baguio, five thousand dollars; to defray expenses of the office work on the survey of the same railroad during the month of December, nineteen hundred, six hundred dollars.Total for Captain C. W. Mead, Thirty-sixth Infantry, United States Volunteers, five thousand and six hundred dollars.For the Disbursing Officer, United States Philippine Commission:For salaries and wages and incidental expenses, forty-five thousand dollars.Total of appropriations for all purposes in money of the United States, one million one hundred and ninety-two thousand three hundred and fifty-two dollars and sixty-six cents.SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this Appropriation Bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its passage.Enacted, December 31, 1900.

Source: Supreme Court E-Library