B. List showing location of all public schools in the Phil- ippine Archipelago, the number of public schools in each province, and the number of native and American C. Appointments from United States. Appendix B.-Report of the bureau of architecture and construction of FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF 30, 1902. WAR 1902-VOL 10, PT 2-1 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF FINANCE AND JUSTICE. DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND JUSTICE, The PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, Manila, P. I., November 1, 1902. GENTLEMEN: I hereby submit a report on matters appertaining to the department of finance and justice in the Philippine Islands during the period from October 15, 1901, to September 30, 1902. The statistics herein contained will be those prior to the last-named date, except when otherwise stated. The first-named date is the beginning of the period covered by this report, inasmuch as matters prior to that date were included in the second report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War. This report includes many matters of a legislative character, as well as those that are purely administrative, both because I have occupied two positions that of a member of the legislative body and that of an administrative official-and because this report is to be attached to the report of the Commission to the Secretary of War, and will contain data of transactions appertaining to this department, both legislative and administrative. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. At the date of the last report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War a complete judicial system had been organized covering the whole archipelago, the municipal code providing for the trial of violators of municipal ordinances by the presidentes, other laws authorizing the appointment of justices of the peace for trial of minor offenses and civil actions involving small amounts and the preliminary investigation of higher crimes, one justice of the peace being provided for every municipality, and creating courts of first instance that are courts of record and of general jurisdiction, one being provided for each province, but the city of Manila having two judges, courts of first instance holding sessions at least twice a year in the smaller provinces and in the more important ones three or four times, and the whole archipelago divided into 14 judicial districts outside the city of Manila, one judge for each judicial district, with a special tribunal for disposing of arrearages of litigation in the island of Negros, and a supreme court, consisting of a chief justice and six associate justices, with adequate provisions for reporting the decisions of the supreme court, and for representation of the government, general and local, in all litigation by the attorney-general, solicitorgeneral, and their assistants, and provincial fiscals, with a special municipal system of courts for the city of Manila and with a notarial |