NOTE. The acts of the Philippine Commission, numbered from 1 to 263, inclusive, enacted between September 12, 1900, and October 11, 1901, were published in the Annual Reports of the War Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1901 (Vol. I, part 10). The second volume, containing acts numbered from 264 to 424, inclusive, passed during the period embraced between October 14, 1901, and July 1, 1902, was published in the Annual Reports of the War Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1902 (Vol. XI). The third volume, containing acts numbered from 425 to 949, inclusive, passed during the period embraced between July 2, 1902, and October 20, 1903, was published in the Annual Reports of the War Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903 (Vol. XIII). The fourth volume, containing acts numbered from 950 to 1251, inclusive, passed during the period embraced between October 21, 1903, and October 20, 1904, also such public resolutions and extracts from Minutes of the Proceedings of the Philippine Commission from September 24, 1900, to August 31, 1904, as were designated for publication by the Commission, and certain appointments made to official positions in the Philippine Islands from September 24, 1900, to August 31, 1904, was published in the Annual Reports of the War Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1904 (Vol. XIV). The fifth volume, containing acts numbered from 1252 to 1407, inclusive, passed during the period embraced between October 21, 1904, and October 26, 1905, also such public resolutions and extracts from Minutes of the Proceedings of the Philippine Commission from September 1, 1904, to September 30, 1905, as were designated for publication by the Commission, and certain appointments made to official positions in the Philippine Islands from September 1, 1904, to September 30, 1905, was published in the Annual Reports of the War Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1905 (Vol. XIV). The sixth volume, containing acts numbered from 1408 to 1538, inclusive, passed during the period embraced between November 3, 1905, and September 8, 1906, also such public resolutions and extracts from Minutes of Proceedings of the Philippine Commission from October 1, 1905, to August 30, 1906, as were designated for publication by the Commission, and certain appointments made to official positions in the Philippine Islands from October 1, 1905, to September 15, 1906, was published in the Annual Reports of the War Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1906 (Vol. X). III 82389 The present volume contains acts numbered from 1539 to 1800," inclusive, passed during the period embraced between September 16, 1906, and October 12, 1907, and are transmitted to Congress in accordance with the provisions of section 86 of the act approved July 1, 1902, entitled "An act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes. It contains also such public resolutions and extracts from Minutes of the Proceedings of the Philippine Commission from September 16, 1906, to October 31, 1907, as have been designated for publication by the Commission; certain appointments made to official positions in the Philippine Islands from September 16, 1906, to October 31, 1907; a list of notaries public in the Philippine Islands appointed by judges of courts of first instance for the different provinces and by the supreme court for the city of Manila dated September, 1907; and a list of municipalities, townships, and other local organizations in the Philippine Islands dated February 27, 1907. a Act numbered 1800 is the last enacted by the Philippine Commission exercising exclusively the legislative function of government. The Philippine assembly convened on October 16, 1907, and since that date, in accordance with section 7 of the act of Congress of July 1, 1902, all the legislative power theretofore conferred on the Philippine Commission is vested in a legislature consisting of two houses the Philippine Commission and the Philippine assembly. TABLE OF CONTENTS. No. 1539. An act amending section 5 of act No. 74, establishing a depart- ment of public instruction, as amended, by authorizing the director of education, with the approval of the secretary of public instruction, to change, increase, or decrease the exist- ing school divisions of the Philippine Islands__. No. 1540. An act authorizing the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company to bring suit against the government of the Philippine Islands in the court of first instance of the city of Manila to deter- mine the liability of the respective parties for damages caused to the Luneta extension by the typhoon of May 18 No. 1541. An act transferring the division of ethnology from the bureau of education to the bureau of science and repealing para- graph (b) of section 23 of the reorganization act_. No. 1542. An act authorizing the municipal council of the municipality of Iba, province of Zambales, to vacate that portion of Calle Bugallon lying between Calles Rizal and Padre Burgos, and to cede the same to the province of Zambales as a site for a No. 1543. An act changing the name of the municipality of Namacpacan, in the province of La Union, to that of Luna__ No. 1544. An act exempting from internal-revenue taxes all timber and other forest products for use in the actual construction and equipment of certain railway lines in the Philippine Islands. No. 1545. An act to amend the provincial government act No. 83, by re- organizing the provincial boards, and by abolishing the posi- tion of provincial secretary, and for other purposes_ No. 1546. An act making appropriations for sundry expenses of the municipal government of the city of Manila for the fiscal No. 1547. An act appropriating the sum of 1,834,000 from the funds real- ized from the sale of bonds authorized by act No. 1323, for the purpose of constructing sewers in the city of Manila and to furnish it with an adequate sewer and drainage system No. 1548. An act to amend the provincial government act, by increasing the power of provinces in the matter of appropriation of No. 1549. An act increasing the number of municipalities in the province of Batangas from 16 to 17, by separating from Taal the former municipality of Lemery, reconstituting the latter as a municipality, and giving the same the territory which it comprised prior to the passage of act No. 708- No. 1550. An act consolidating the present municipality of Casiguran with the municipality of Baler, both in the province of Tayabas, and annexing the barrios of Cabulihan, San Roque, and Ca- lantas with the sitios of Anos and Tubas, of the munici- pality of Gumaca, to the municipality of Pitogo, in the same No. 1551. An act increasing the number of municipalities in the province of Cavite from 11 to 12, by separating from Imus the former municipality of Bacoor and giving the latter the territory which it comprised prior to the passage of act No. 947------ V |