EXHIBIT E.

PHILIPPINES MUSEUM.

PHILIPPINES MUSEUM, Manila, P. I., August 31, 1903.

The SECRETARY OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,

Manila, P. I.

Sir: I have the honor to submit the second annual report of the museum of ethnology, natural history, and commerce for the Philippine Islands.

The work accomplished during the past year on behalf of this institution has been small, owing to the fact that at the beginning of the year it was contemplated that it would be merged into the permanent museum to be established for the Philippine Islands by the exposition board. In January the collections of the museum, largely of an ethnological character, were turned over to the exposition board, and the files of commercial information, periodicals, etc., of the division of commerce, as well as the clerk in charge of this division, were likewise transferred. Collecting was thereafter done with a view to assisting in the preparations for an exhibit of the Philippine Islands at St. Louis.

In January Mr. Moray L. Applegate was employed to visit the towns of Calasiao, Pangasinan, and Baliuag, Bulacan, to make a study of the fine hat-weaving industry which is localized in these two towns. Mr. Applegate brought back an excellent collection of most beautiful hats, with materials and implements illustrating the art, which is one of the finest and most suggestive in the Archipelago. Mr. Applegate also prepared a written report upon this industry, which should eventually be published as an industrial bulletin of the museum. Mr. Applegate's collection was turned over to the exposition board for exhibit at St. Louis.

In February Mr. C. J. Cooke was employed on a trip to the province of Bataan to make a collection from the Negritos, who inhabit the slopes of Mount Mariveles. Mr. Cooke explored all sides of the mountain, located probably every family of Negritos in that region of the province, and returned after two weeks' work with an interesting collection, illustrating the very primitive life and culture of these famous little blacks.

To supplement these Negrito exhibits by others from the Negritos of another district, Mr. E. J. Simons was employed during the same month, and sent on a collecting trip into the mountains back of Angat, Bulacan, which region, since the first settlements of the Spaniards in Pampanga, has been a celebrated locality for the Negritos. Mr. Simons brought back with him a suggestive and valuable collection of the ethnography of these little savages, which, with the above collection made by Mr. Cooke, have been turned over to the exposition board.

In March Mr. Orville V. Wood, the teacher at Santa Cruz, Davao, was, by arrangement with the bureau of education, employed and furnished with 1,000 pesos of the museum funds to make collections among the Bogobos, Tagakaola, and Mandaya of the mountains of Davao Gulf.

Mr. Wood was actively engaged during the months of March and April, and succeeded in amassing very beautiful exhibits of the tribes of this little-known region, which have been turned over to the exposition board. More lately Mr. Wood has continued his collecting under the direction of the chief of the ethnological survey, but in this latter work, by arrangement with the exposition board, his salary and the expense of collecting have been paid by the exposition board.

During the fall of last year the field party of the bureau of nonChristian tribes (now the ethnological survey), while occupied with the exploration of the cordillera central of northern Luzon, was furnished with funds of the museum for collecting, and made ethnological collections from the Igorot of Benguet and Kayapa, the Ibilao of Nueva Vizcaya, the Igorot tribes of Kiangan, the Kalingas of Isabela, and the Igorot of Bontok.

During the winter and spring of the present year Dr. Albert E. Jenks, ethnologist of the ethnological survey, while engaged in investigations of the Bontok Igorot, made a typical collection of the ethnography of these people.

All of the above collections have been turned over to the exposition board.

The purchase of the above collections practically exhausted the funds which had been appropriated for this purpose, and as it was anticipated that the place of the museum would be taken by a better organized institution established by the exposition board, no appropriation was sought for the insular museum of ethnology, natural history, and commerce for the fiscal half year of 1903, nor for the present year 1904.

This museum, while not formerly abolished, is at present without appropriation, although there are some properties of the institution for which the undersigned is accountable. Mr. S. B. Shiley, who up to January last had charge of the section of commerce, has been added to the force of the ethnological survey, although still giving his attention to the work which he has pursued since a year ago, when he was first appointed a clerk in the museum.

During the year Mr. Shiley has sent out 915 letters concerning branches of commerce and industry with which the Philippines are vitally concerned. He has received and filed 283 letters. He has prepared the following commercial indices: Alphabetical index of the commercial firms doing business in the Philippines; a classified index of same; a general index of commercial information relating to the Philippines; an index to the resources and industries of the Archipelago by provinces; an index of trade journals, papers, and reports which have been received. He has secured the issue to the museum of trade journals and reports to the number of seventy distinct publications, which are on file. He has procured alphabetical and classified catalogues of exporters of the United States, Germany, Spain, Japan, England, India, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Cuba, Egypt, France, Holland, Italy, Mexico, and all South American countries, Russia, and Switzerland.

Exhibits from exporters of the United States and other countries have been invited. Japan has responded to this invitation with an exhibit filling 86 cases, which has just arrived. An exhibit has also been received from the California Wine Association, and from the Hammer Portland Cement Company, of Tournai, Belgium. Other exhibits have been held off until arrangements should be made for their housing and display.

The failure of the exposition board to establish its "permanent museum" feature and its abandonment of this section of its programme invite a reorganization of the museum of ethnology, natural history, and commerce. Accordingly recommendations have been made looking to the return of such portions of the exhibit prepared for St. Louis as could not be readily duplicated, or as could be economically retransported here. This has been provided for by the passage of Act 827, enacted August 5, 1903, which requires "that from the exhibits at the Saint Louis exposition owned by the Philippine government there shall be selected by a committee designated by the civil governor all exhibits which, in the opinion of the committee, it would be wise and not too expensive to reship to Manila at the close of the exposition at Saint Louis for use in a permanent museum in Manila; and provided further, that the property, effects, and exhibits of the insular museum of ethnology, natural history, and commerce, established by Act No. 284, which have been taken over by the exposition board, shall be returned to Manila for use in a permanent museum at Manila."

The provisions of this act, if properly carried out, should provide the Filipino people with a permanent exhibit illustrating their own achievements, their history and cultural progress, and the resources and possibilities of their country. Such an institution has proved elsewhere a perpetual stimulous to the imaginations and aspirations of a people, and herein lies the principal value of all great museums and expositions. I believe that the people of the Philippines are especially responsive to appeals of this character, and that a museum representing adequately their country may be no mean force in their future.

I accordingly have the honor to recommend that the museum of ethnology, natural history, and commerce be reorganized, and be designated as the recipient of the exhibits which will be returned from St. Louis.

Very respectfully submitted.

DAVID P. BARROWS,
In Charge of Museum.

EXHIBIT F.

EDITOR OF THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,

Hon. JAMES F. SMITH,

OFFICE OF THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE,
Manila, P. I., September 10, 1903.

Secretary of Public Instruction, Manila, P. I.

SIR: In compliance with your communication of August 21, 1903, I have the honor to submit herewith a report on the operations and work of this office for the year ending August 31, 1903.

CHARACTER OF GAZETTE.

The publication of the Official Gazette under the general direction of the department of public instruction was authorized by Act No. 453, enacted September 2, 1902. This Act was amended by Act No. 664, enacted March 4, 1903 by making additional provisions regarding the material published and the distribution of the Gazette. The Official Gazette is published weekly in two parts, one part in English and the other in Spanish. Each part is issued separately and contains the acts of the Commission, executive orders, such decisions of the supreme court, the court of customs appeals, and the court of land registration as are deemed by these courts of sufficient importance to be published, and other material designated for publication by the secretary of public instruction or which may be recommended for publication by the editor and approved by the secretary of public instruction. In addition to the laws enacted by the Commission, executive orders of the civil governor, and decisions of the courts, which appear as a rule in each issue, there have been published in the Gazette during the past year proclamations of the civil governor, resolutions of the Philippine Commission, opinions of the attorney-general, reports, circular letters, instructions, orders and notices from the various departments and bureaus of the government, as well as extracts taken from bureau publications and from special reports on topics of general public interest.

Much of this material has to be translated in order to appear in both the English and the Spanish prints of the Gazette. All such translation is done by the translating division of the executive bureau, where the work done receives expert supervision. Were it not for this translation and the subsequent publication, much material of vital interest to the people at large would never reach them. By its publication in Spanish, and its distribution to the subscribers of the Gazette, this material is carried to every organized municipality in the Archipelago.

ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE.

The editor of the Official Gazette, as provided by the act authorizing its publication, was appointed by the civil governor, by and with

the consent of the Philippine Commission, on September 30, 1902. His duties are to collect and prepare material for publication, to receive subscriptions and to account for same to the insular treasurer, to distribute copies of the Gazette to subscribers, to index the Gazette every six months, and to perform such other duties in connection with the publication of the Gazette as the secretary of public instruction may direct. The editor also acts as disbursing officer, accounting at least once each month for all funds received and disbursed to the insular treasurer and auditor, respectively.

The publication of the Official Gazette, as provided by law, was to begin with September 1, 1902. The material designed for publication in the first numbers of the Gazette had been collected and was on hand in the office of the secretary of public instruction, and was turned over to the editor when he took charge of the work on October 14. A desk in one of the rooms occupied by the executive bureau was temporarily assigned to the Official Gazette and the work of publication began. The 2 clerks provided for in Act No. 453 were employed November 19, 1902, and January 12, 1903, respectively, and better office accommodations were provided in the palace building, which, though still of a temporary nature, proved sufficient for the time being. As soon as the Santa Potenciana building was made available for offices of the insular government by the removal of the military authorities to Fort Santiago, permanent offices were assigned there. These rooms were occupied on May 29 last, all necessary furniture and supplies were purchased, and the office was placed on a permanent basis. An increase of one in the number of clerks employed was authorized by Act No. 682, March 14, 1903, and a like increase was again authorized by Act No. 807, July 27, 1903. The civil governor, by executive order No. 68, dated Manila, August 12, 1903, assigned to the office of the Official Gazette the clerk in charge of the bureau of statistics, abolishing said bureau and authorizing the editor of the Gazette to take over and receipt for all property and records, and, until otherwise provided, perform the duties incumbent under existing law upon the official in charge of said bureau of statistics. There are now employed in the office of the Official Gazette the editor, the 4 clerks provided by law, and the clerk recently in charge of the bureau of statistics.

PRINTING.

The Official Gazette is printed at the bureau of public printing in Manila. At first there were 1,000 English and 3,000 Spanish copies printed each week, but this number was reduced in March, 1903, since which time there have been printed 700 copies in English and 2,500 in Spanish. The material designed for publication, after being collected, translated, and edited, is sent to the bureau of public printing. This material is received by the public printer on Wednesday of each week, proof is returned to the office of the Gazette to be read and corrected, and the Gazettes are ready for mailing on the following Tuesday unless the printing is delayed by some special order from the civil governor or a member of the Commission, such special order taking precedence over all other work.

DISTRIBUTION.

Upon receipt of the Gazette from the public printer copies of same are at once mailed to subscribers. These subscribers are divided into