capital of the province. The provincial governor, the provincial treasurer, and a third member to be appointed by the GovernorGeneral, by and with the consent of the Commission, shall constitute the provincial board. The provincial governor shall be a justice of the peace ex officio with jurisdiction throughout the province. The fiscal for the Provinces of Surigao and Misamis shall perform, without additional compensation, the duties of provincial fiscal as prescribed by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "The Special Provincial Government Act." The salaries of the officers and employees of the Province of Agusan shall be payable from Insular funds. SEC. 3. There shall be a lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Bukidnon, who shall receive compensation at the rate of three thousand two hundred pesos per annum payable from Insular funds. He shall be appointed by the Governor-General by and with the consent of the Commission. Within the limits of his subprovince he shall exercise the powers and perform the duties fixed by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six for the lieutenant-governor of Bontoc. He shall reside and have his office at the capital of the subprovince, which shall be fixed and may be changed by executive order of the Governor-General. He shall be a justice of the peace ex officio with jurisdiction throughout the subprovince. SEC. 4. The provisions of section one to twenty-two, inclusive, of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "The Special Provincial Government Act," as amended, and the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "The Township Government Act," as amended, shall apply to the Province of Agusan, and the governor and the provincial board of Agusan shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties relative to the subprovince of Bukidnon fixed for the governor and the provincial board of Lepanto-Bontoc relative to the subprovince of Bontoc by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six, as amended. The provincial board may, by resolution approved by the Secretary of the Interior, provide for the organization under "The Township Government Act" of any municipality within the territory of the Province of Agusan. SEC. 5. There is hereby established a subprovince which shall be known as the subprovince of Batanes. Its territory shall consist of the entire group of islands known as the Batanes Islands and shall form a part of the Province of Cagayan. There shall be a lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Batanes, who shall be appointed by the Governor-General by and with the consent of the Commission. He shall receive compensation at the rate of three thousand six hundred pesos per annum. Within the limits of his subprovince, he shall exercise the powers and perform the duties fixed for the lieutenant-governor of Bontoc by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "The Special Provincial Government Act." He shall be a justice of the peace ex officio with jurisdiction throughout the subprovince. He shall reside at Santo Domingo de Basco on the Island of Batan, which shall be the capital of the subprovince, and shall have his office in the former provincial building at that place. If, after supplying the necessary office room for the offices of the subprovince and for the station of the Weather Bureau, the building affords sufficient accommodation for the residence of the lieutenant-governor, he may occupy it for this purpose. The assignment of rooms in said building for the offices of the subprovince, the station of the Weather Bureau, and the residence of the lieutenant-governor shall be made by the provincial board of Cagayan. The salaries of the lieutenant-governor and such subordinate employees as may be duly authorized for the subprovince of Batanes shall be payable from Insular funds. SEC. 6. Any unexpended balance of non-Christian inhabitants' funds of Surigao and Misamis shall be expendable in the Province of Agusan or the subprovince of Bukidnon, as the Secretary of the Interior may direct. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to ascertain and certify to the Insular Auditor as soon as practicable the approximate number of inhabitants of the subprovince of Butuan, of the subprovince of Bukidnon, and of the subprovince of Batanes; and upon such certification the Insular Auditor shall redistribute internal-revenue funds in such manner that thereafter the amount proportionate to the number of inhabitants removed from the territorial jurisdiction of the Provinces of Surigao and Misamis and transferred to that of the Province of Agusan by the establishment of said province shall be deducted from the funds of the former provinces and added to the non-Christian inhabitants' fund of Agusan; and the amount proportionate to the number of inhabitants included within the subprovince of Batanes shall be deducted from the internal-revenue funds of the Province of Cagayan and shall constitute a "township and settlement fund” for the benefit of the inhabitants of the subprovince of Batanes as provided by Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and twenty-eight. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Province of Misamis a sum equivalent to the amount actually derived by said province from taxes collected in the territory comprised in the subprovince of Bukidnon during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven; and for the Province of Surigao an amount equal to the amount actually derived by said province from taxes collected in the territory comprised in the subprovince of Butuan during the same period; as certified by the provincial treasurers of the Provinces of Surigao and Misamis as such provinces existed prior to the passage of this Act. SEC. 7. The provisions of sections one to twenty-two, inclusive, of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "The Special Provincial Government Act," as amended, and the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "The Township Government Act," as amended, shall apply to the subprovince of Batanes: Provided, That subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the governor and the provincial board of Cagayan shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties relative to the subprovince of Batanes fixed for the governor and the provincial board of Lepanto-Bontoc relative to the subprovince of Bontoc by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six. The provincial board may, by resolution approved by the Governor-General, provide for the reorganization of any organized municipality within the territory of the subprovince of Batanes under "The Township Government Act." SEC. 8. Subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the provincial board of Cagayan is hereby authorized to apply, by resolution, to municipalities, settlements, and barrios of the Babuyanes Islands the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "The Township Government Act," as amended. SEC. 9. Section five of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and fortytwo, entitled "An Act providing for the establishment of two subprovinces to be known as the subprovince of Kalinga and the subprovince of Apayao," is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 5. There shall be a lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Apayao, who shall receive compensation at the rate of three thousand two hundred pesos per annum payable from Insular funds. Within the limits of his subprovince he shall exercise the powers and perform the duties fixed by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six for the lieutenant-governor of Bontoc. He shall reside and have his office at the capital of the subprovince." SEC. 10. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum which shall be necessary to pay, during the remainder of the current fiscal year, the salary of the governor and treasurer of Agusan, the salary of the lieutenant-governor of Bukidnon, the salary of the lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Batanes, and, from the date of his appointment, the salary of the lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Apayao, together with the salaries of such subordinate employees as may be duly authorized in the Province of Agusan and the subprovinces of Butuan, Bukidnon, Batanes, and Apayao, and the reimbursement of any salary paid out of provincial funds by the Province of Cagayan to the lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Apayao is hereby authorized. SEC. 11. 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. 12. This Act shall take effect in the Province of Agusan upon the appointment of the provincial governor; and in the subprovince of Batanes upon the appointment of a lieutenant-governor therefor. Section eight, nine, and ten shall take effect upon the passage of this Act. Enacted, August 20, 1907. [No. 1694.] AN ACT To repeal section fourteen of Act Numbered Three hundred and nine, entitled "An Act providing for the compulsory vaccination of the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands." By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section fourteen of Act Numbered Three hundred and nine, entitled "An Act providing for the compulsory vaccination of the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands," is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedíted 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. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1695.] AN ACT Amending Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "The internal revenue law of nineteen hundred and four," by adding to the road and bridge funds of the provinces ten per centum of the revenues accruing under said Act, and by devoting an additional five per centum of said revenues to the maintenance of free public primary schools in the several municipalities. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section one hundred and fifty of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "The Internal Revenue Law of Nineteen hundred and four," as amended by section sixteen of Act Numbered Twelve hundred and eighty-three, and section one of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and twenty-six, is hereby further amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 150. Of the revenues accruing to the Insular Treasury by virtue of the provisions of this Act, ten per centum shall be set apart for the benefit of the provincial governments for general provincial purposes, and twenty per centum shall be set apart for the municipal governments for general municipal purposes in accordance with law and for school purposes as hereinafter provided in this Act, and for the purposes of this Act the city of Manila, shall be considered to be both a province and a municipality, and shall receive the apportionment pertaining both to a province and a municipality as hereinafter prescribed: Provided, however, That to such province or provinces as shall, through their provincial boards, accept for one or more calendar years the provisions of sections forty-five of Act Numbered Eighty-three, as amended, there shall be allotted, from the revenues accruing to the Insular Treasury by virtue of the provisions of this Act, not only the ten per centum hereinbefore mentioned for general provincial purposes, but also, for each calendar year during which said acceptance continues in effect, ten per centum of said revenues to be paid into the road and bridge funds of such provinces, said ten per centum to be apportioned according to their respective populations among the provinces so accepting section forty-five of Act Numbered Eighty-three, as amended. And for the foregoing purpose the city of Manila, in its status as a province, shall be represented by its Municipal Board, and such funds as may accrue to it by virtue of its acceptance of section forty-five, as aforesaid, shall be used exclusively for the construction, repair, and maintenance of its streets, highways, roads, and bridges. In the case of provinces, the road and bridge funds shall be used, first, in the repair and maintenance of im proved roads, and second, in the improvement of roads and bridges now existing, and third, in the construction, repair, improvement, and maintenance of new roads and bridges. "The amounts by this section set aside shall be apportioned among the several provinces and municipalities in proportion to their respective populations as shown by the official census last taken before the making of such apportionment, and shall be returned by settlement. warrant to the provincial treasurers and the city of Manila quarterly, after January first, nineteen hundred and five, for disbursement and payment to the proper municipalities. Such return shall be made as soon after the close of each quarter as the accounts of the collections for said quarter shall have been settled and adjusted by the Auditor, and for this purpose a permanent appropriation of the sums so required is hereby made: Provided, That of the twenty per centum of the revenues set apart by this section for the benefit of the several municipal governments, one-half thereof shall be utilized solely for the purposes of the maintenance of free public primary schools in the respective municipalities, including the payment of teachers, the building of schoolhouses, and other expenditures appertaining to the maintenance of the public schools: And provided further, That the amount to be apportioned for the Moro Province and the municipalities therein shall accrue to the treasury of the Moro Province without division and shall constitute a part of the general funds of the Moro Province to be expended in the discretion of the legislative council for provincial, district, and municipal purposes: And provided further, That in every province organized under the Provincial Government Act which contains non-Christian inhabitants, such proportion of the internal revenue which by law accrues to the municipalities of said province as the number of non-Christian inhabitants bears to the total population of said province shall be set aside in the provincial treasury as a fund to be known as the 'non-Christian inhabitants' fund,' and such fund shall be expended by the provincial board upon advance approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the benefit of such non-Christian inhabitants: And provided further, That in every province organized under The Special Provincial Government Act such part of the internal revenue as would by the Internal Revenue Law accrue to municipalities shall be set aside as a fund to be known as the township and settlement fund' and shall be expended by the provincial board, upon advance approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the benefit of the municipalities, townships, and settlements of said province. The approval of an expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior shall be final in the settlement of the accounts." SEC. 2. Section sixteen of Act Numbered Twelve hundred and eighty-three and section one of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and twenty-six are hereby repealed. 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 twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage. |