PHILIPPINE MEDICAL SCHOOL. For the construction of necessary buildings at Manila, two hundred and fifty thousand pesos. For installation of gas plant at Manila, as authorized by a resolution of the Commission dated May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand pesos. In all, for the Philippine Medical School, two hundred and fiftyone thousand pesos. MISCELLANEOUS. For expenditure under the direction of the provincial board of La Laguna in the construction and improvement of the roads of said province, as authorized by a resolution of the Commission dated July thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, including the guarding, maintenance, and supervision of convict labor, twenty thousand pesos. The unexpended balance of funds appropriated by Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and seventy-nine for the extension of the stone causeway and construction of a new timber wharf at Puerto Princesa, equipment, and other property used in the construction of a wharf at Puerto Princesa, are hereby transferred to the provincial government of Palawan, and made available for the sinking of an artesian well and such other public works projects as may be necessary and feasible. Total of appropriations for all purposes, three million five hundred and two thousand six hundred and fifty-five pesos. SEC. 2. The amounts herein or at any time hereafter appropriated out of Insular funds for provincial works or projects may, upon the direction of the Insular Auditor, be paid into the treasury of the province for the benefit of which such appropriation, or any allotment out of any such appropriation, is made, upon warrant. Such appropriation or allotment shall thereupon be disbursed by the treasurer of the province concerned as special provincial funds, under the control of the Chief of Bureau or Office for which the appropriation is made, and for the specific purpose set forth in such appropriation, upon vouchers approved by the chief of Bureau or Office concerned, or by the duly authorized representative of such chief. The Auditor is hereby directed, upon the certificate of the chief of Bureau or Office that the works or projects for which such appropriation or allotment was made have been completed and that all obligations arising thereunder have been paid, to cause to be refunded to the proper appropriation any unexpended balance remaining therein. Any unexpended balance at any time remaining to the credit of previous Insular appropriations for provincial works or projects shall be combined and consolidated with any or all subsequent Insular appropriations or allotments for such identical provincial works or projects and shall constitute one fund or appropriation, and the preceding provisions of this section, regarding the manner of disbursing Insular appropriations for provincial works or projects, shall apply to such combined and consolidated appropriation or fund. SEC. 3. All balances remaining unexpended when any public works or permanent improvements appropriated for by this Act are completed shall be returned at once to the Insular Treasury and shall not be available for withdrawal or disbursement thereafter, but shall be carried to the general revenues of the Islands. SEC. 4. 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 cedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1689.] pro AN ACT Amending Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "The Township Government Act," so as to authorize the collection of certain license fees, to provide a method of enforcing the payment of the property tax by delinquents who are absent from the province or are nonresidents thereof, and to provide that the popular representative shall continue to be a resident of the province during his term of office. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Paragraph (k) of section thirty-eight of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "The Township Government Act," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 66 (k) License public carriages, carts, and hearses kept for hire; cafés, restaurants, hotels, inns, and lodging houses; horse races; and license, regulate, or prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors, subject to the provisions of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and thirtynine." SEC. 2. Paragraph (a) of section forty-three of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "(a) Fees for the granting of the privilege of fisheries, the privilege of keeping dogs, and for licensing public carriages, carts, and hearses kept for hire; cafés, restaurants, hotels, inns, and lodging houses; horse races; and saloons, bars, or drinking places for the sale of intoxicating liquors:" SEC. 3. Section fifty-four of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 54. On the basis of the declaration made and of the findings of the board of assessors, if any, the secretary shall prepare, on or before February fifteenth of each year, a list of the persons from whom a property tax is due, with the amount of such tax due from each of them. This list shall be kept open to public inspection in his office. All persons from whom a property tax is due shall be notified by the councilors of their respective barrios to appear before the secretary and learn the amount of such tax, which shall be stated to them verbally by the secretary, if they can not read: Provided, That in case of residents temporarily absent from the province, and nonresidents of the province, it shall be sufficient if a written notice be deposited, postage paid, in the post-office addressed to the owner, at his last known place of residence, or if no place of residence be known then to the barrio and municipality in which the property is situate." SEC. 4. Section fifty-six of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 56. All persons who have not paid their property taxes in full on or before the thirty-first day of July of each year shall be deemed delinquent taxpayers, after such delinquency shall have been adjudged, upon due notice to the alleged delinquent, by the court provided for in section eighteen, subsection (g). If any taxpayer shall fail to pay the delinquent taxes adjudged against him within twenty-four hours after judgment, he shall be made to satisfy the amount due by labor upon public works within the township at a rate per day to be fixed by the provincial board, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior first had, either performing such work in person or providing a substitute to perform it: Provided, That at any time after he or his substitute shall have begun work he may secure release from obligation to work by payment of the amount of the tax originally due in full: And provided further, That if such delinquents are absent from the province or are nonresidents of the province all the provisions of sections seventy-five to eighty-six, inclusive, of The Municipal Code as amended, shall apply and be enforceable as to them and their property. SEC. 5. Paragraph (b) of section sixty-five of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "(b) At its first convention during any calendar year the assembly or presidents of the townships and settlements organized under the provisions of this Act in any province shall have the right to elect a popular representative, who shall be chosen by a majority vote of all the presidents present and who shall be a resident of the province at the time of his election and shall continue to be a resident thereof while serving as popular representative." SEC. 6. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this 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. 7. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1690.] AN ACT To increase the number of municipalities in the province of La Laguna from twenty-one to twenty-two by separating from the municipality of San Pablo the former municipality of Alaminos, reconstituting the latter as a municipality and giving to it the territory of which it was comprised prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine hundred and thirty-nine. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The twenty-one municipalities of the Province of La Laguna, as established by Act Numbered Nine hundred and thirtynine, shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, be increased to twenty-two, by separating the former municipality of Alaminos from the municipality of San Pablo. The municipality of San Pablo shall consist of the territory of which it was comprised prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine hundred and thirty-nine, and the municipality of Alaminos is hereby reconstituted and shall consist of the territory of which it was comprised prior to the passage of said Act. SEC. 2. The first municipal election for the new municipality of Alaminos shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and seven, and in accordance with the provisions of "The Election Law" relative to elections in new municipalities. Until the officials elected for the new municipality of Alaminos as described in section one of this Act shall have qualified, the present organization of the municipality of San Pablo shall continue: Provided, That the distribution of funds in the municipal treasury of San Pablo resulting from the separation from San Pablo of the former municipality of Alaminos, shall be made as of the date of the passage of this Act. SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this 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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on September fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven. Enacted, August 19, 1907. [No. 1691.] AN ACT To amend section four of Act Numbered Eighty-two, entitled "The municipal code," as amended, by prescribing the maximum percentage of general funds of municipalities which may be expended for salaries and wages of municipal officers and employees not employed upon public works, and for other purposes. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section four of Act Numbered Eighty-two, entitled "The Municipal Code," as amended by section one of Act Numbered Three hundred and three, and section one of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and thirty-three, is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 4. (a) Incorporated municipalities shall be of four classes, according to the number of inhabitants. Municipalities of the first class shall be those which contain not less than twenty-five thousand inhabitants, and shall have eighteen councilors; of the second class, those containing eighteen thousand and less than twenty-five thousand inhabitants, and shall have fourteen councilors; of the third class, those containing ten thousand and less than eighteen thousand inhabitants, and shall have ten councilors; of the fourth class, those containing less than ten thousand inhabitants, and shall have eight councilors. "There shall not be expended during any calendar year for salaries and wages of municipal officials and employees, of every description, excluding those employed on public works, but including fees paid justices of the peace and auxiliary justices of the peace, in municipalities of the first class more than fifty per centum, in municipalities of the second class more than sixty per centum, in municipalities of the third class more than sixty-five per centum, and in municipalities of the fourth class more than seventy-five per centum, of the annual revenues accruing to the municipal general funds, during said calendar year, exclusive of all balances carried forward from preceding years, and any and all appropriations, loans, or gifts made from Insular, provincial, or private funds; anything contained in section twenty-two (g) of this Act to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, however, That the provincial board, by and with the approval of the Governor-General, may by resolution authorize any incorporated municipality to exceed the foregoing percentages upon such conditions and under such limitations as may be prescribed by such resolution: And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the payment from the municipal school fund of salaries of such municipal teachers and other school employees as may be approved by the division superintendent of schools. "(b) Municipalities of less than two thousand inhabitants may be incorporated under the provisions of this Act, or may, upon petition signed by a majority of the qualified electors thereof, be attached as a barrio to an adjacent and incorporated municipality, if the council of the latter shall grant said petition, and the Commission shall approve it. (c) A barrio or barrios with an aggregate population of more than two thousand may be incorporated under the provisions of this Act as a separate municipality, upon the granting by the Commission of a petition signed by two-thirds of the qualified electors thereof. "(d) In case of controversy, the Commission shall determine to which class a town shall belong, and thereafter, if its population shall sufficiently increase or diminish, it shall pass to a higher or lower class by order of the provincial board. "(e) In case the class of a municipality shall be raised the additional councilors appropriate to its new class shall be obtained by electing at the regular election next following the change one-half of the total number of councilors prescribed for municipalities of that class and at each succeeding election an equal number. During the interim between the change and the seating of the councilors first elected thereafter the council shall consist of the former number of councilors. After the seating of said first elected councilors and until the seating of those next elected it shall consist of a number midway between the former number and the number prescribed for the new class. "(f) In case a municipality is reduced in class all of the councilors in office shall be allowed to serve out their full terms, except that in case of death, resignation, or removal of any such councilor the vacancy thereby caused shall not be filled unless such vacancy reduces the number of councilors below that prescribed for the new class, in which case the vacancy shall be filled as hereinafter in this Act provided. At the election next following the change of class the number of councilors elected shall be equal to one-half of the number pre |