EXHIBIT F.

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEE OF THE AMERICAN CIRCULATING LIBRARY, COVERING THE PERIOD FROM SEPTEMBER 30, 1903, TO AUGUST 9, 1904.

The BOARD OF TRUSTEES,

MANILA, August 5, 1904.

American Circulating Library, Manila, P. I.

GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to submit my report for the period from the date of my appointment as disbursing officer (September 30, 1903) to present date:

There are two funds to be disbursed: One received from various sources, such as fines, fees, donations, and collections, and is collected and deposited by the librarian monthly with the insular treasurer. The other is the fund received through the regular appropriation acts. The appropriation act No. 807, July 27, 1903, provides the following funds for the first half of the fiscal year 1904:

Salaries and wages, American Circulating Library of Manila, nineteen hundred and four: Librarian, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; assistant librarian, at nine hundred dollars per annum; two employees, at one hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; one thousand one hundred and seventy dollars.

Contingent expenses, American Circulating Library of Manila, nineteen hundred and four: For contingent expenses, including the purchase of ice, coolie hire, rent of library building, installation of electric lights, electric lighting, water tax, and other incidental expenses, eight hundred dollars.

In all, for the American Circulating Library of Manila, one thousand, nine hundred and seventy dollars: Provided, That all receipts on every account of the American Circulating Library of Manila shall be duly accounted for to the auditor and deposited by the librarian in the insular treasury: And provided further, That a permanent appropriation of all receipts deposited under the preceding provision is hereby made for the purchase of books and pamphlets for the library, such funds to be withdrawn upon requisition of the chairman of the board of trustees.

The permanent fund deposited and on hand September 30, 1903, amounted to P1,726.04. The subsequent receipts for this fund, added to this sum, amounted to, on July 31, 1904, P4,486.79.

No purchases of books were made until June, 1904, due to the fact that a change of quarters for the library was contemplated. The library was moved from Calle Rosario to the Oriente Building on May 25. On June 5 the last of the books and furniture were in the new quarters.

The present quarters consist of two rooms on the second floor of the Oriente Building, one of which is the general reading room and is a large, commodious, and well-lighted room; the other, somewhat smaller, is used as an office for the librarian and contains the more valuable reference books.

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New book stacks were constructed, as the old stacks were found not suitable to transfer to the new building. The library furniture was made in the workshop of the bureau of forestry, such as the library table, newspaper rack, magazine desk and rack, four reading shelves along the windows, Century Dictionary stand, and large bookcase for valuable bound periodicals and reference books.

The number of books on hand June 30, 1904, amounted to 21,575. These books have been gifts from persons in the United States who have been interested in the library, mainly through the efforts of Mrs. N. Y. Egbert, the present librarian, who has so ably administered the affairs of the library since its organization, and Mrs. Charles R. Greenleaf, the originator of the library and the first director. A large number of books have been received from the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Army and Navy League.

After the library was moved into its new quarters efforts were made to secure additions to the books and periodicals. Two complete bound sets of the Spanish Manila periodical Oceania were secured, dating from its first number in 1877 to May, 1899, when the paper changed hands and became known as El Progreso. Two complete sets of this latter publication were received. Lately El Progreso has changed its name to Adelanto. Bound volumes of other Manila periodicals were received, such as the Manila Gaceta, dating from 1868 to; a complete set of the Manila Freedom, and an incomplete set of the Manila Times.

An effort is being made to devote a section of the library to books in the Spanish language, in which section shall be contained books by the best Spanish authors, and also translations in Spanish of some of our best American histories, biographical, scientific, and other works of literary merit.

The library has room for at least 10,000 additional volumes, and by the time this additional number is secured it is to be hoped that a suitable library building will be provided. Two very beautiful sites for such a building have been partly promised by the Manila municipal board.

The books and library furniture have been insured for P40,000. The number of books taken out by the patrons of the library during the year amounted to 14,732.

The appropriations and expenditures for the fiscal year 1904 were as follows:

Of the previous balance, 522.43, P506.19 was used during the second half of the fiscal year to meet obligations incurred during the first half of the year. This left a balance unexpended June 30, 1904, of 16.24. The printing and binding for the fiscal year amounted to P69.

The books purchased during June and July were as follows:

The bound sets of the American periodicals were presented to the library without charge.

The duties of disbursing officer for the library will in future be attended to by Mr. Louis Lang, whose office is in the ayuntamiento. The first property return for the library was rendered to the auditor June 30, 1904. The employees of the library made their first civilservice reports of services rendered June 30, 1904.

Two complete sets of the text-books used in the Philippine schools have been ordered sent to the library by the superintendent of public instruction of the Philippine Islands.

Lists of books for purchase in the United States are being prepared and will be ordered in the near future.

Very respectfully,

GEORGE P. AHERN,

Disbursing Officer American Circulating Library of Manila.

EXHIBIT G.

REPORT OF THE EDITOR OF THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE, COVERING THE PERIOD FROM JUNE 30, 1903, TO AUGUST 31, 1904.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,

OFFICE OF THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE,

Manila, P. I., September 10, 1904.

SIR: In compliance with your communication of July 27, 1904, I have the honor to submit herewith a report of this office for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, with supplementary statement bringing the same up to August 31, 1904.

CHARACTER OF THE GAZETTE.

The Official Gazette is the official organ of the insular government, authorized by Act No. 453 of the Philippine Commission, enacted September 2, 1902. This act was subsequently amended by Act No. 664 of March 4, 1903, and by Act No. 971 of November 2, 1903, making additional provisions relative to the material to be published and providing for a more extensive free distribution of the Gazette. The Gazette is published weekly in two parts, one part in English and the other in Spanish. Each part is issued separately, and is intended to be a complete record of government action, legislative, executive, and judicial; differing in this respect from all other gazettes which the undersigned has thus far had occasion to examine. Files of the gazettes of most of the British colonies in the Orient are on file in this office, and an examination of their contents shows them to be merely publications of the executive branch of the government. This feature of our Gazette is believed to be a distinct improvement on the methods of other lands. While involving an additional expense at the present time, this will steadily lessen as the volume of legislative and executive changes diminish with time and the passage of the civil government of these islands from the formative stage.

The Gazette contains the acts and public resolutions of the Commission, proclamations of the Secretary of War and of the civil governor, general orders of the War Department bearing on the Philippines, executive orders of the civil governor, such decisions of the supreme court, court of customs appeals, and the court of land registrations as are deemed of sufficient importance to be published, the opinions of the attorney-general, and such other material as may be designated for publication by the secretary of public instruction, or recommended for publication by the editor and approved by the secretary of public instruction.

In addition to the laws enacted by the Commission, its resolutions of a public nature, the executive orders of the civil governor, decisions of the supreme court and opinions of the attorney-general, which are published as soon as issued from the several offices and appear as a rule in each number, a vast amount of other matter has been published during the year. First and foremost is the statistical matter. The first number of each month is made a statistical number. In it will be found monthly reports on vital statistics by the insular board of health, the meteorological report of the weather bureau, monthly financial statements of the Banco Español-Filipino, monthly reports of the police and fire departments of the city of Manila, and a great deal of statistical data from almost every bureau of the government.

Another feature of the Gazette is the publication of the administrative orders and circulars of the various bureaus. From the beginning the administrative orders, tariff decision circulars, Chinese and immigration circulars, and other orders and rulings of the bureau of customs and immigration, have been published weekly. During the year the plan has been extended so as to include all administrative circulars issued by the bureaus of coast guard and transportation, internal revenue, constabulary, and education. The inclusion of the publications of the two latter is most important, since American teachers and constabulary officers will for some years to come constitute by far the most important elements in the English subscription list.

The latter part of each number contains notices of civil-service examinations, weekly lists of appointments by the civil governor and by the heads of bureaus and offices, resignations and removals. The number closes with a directory of government offices. This directory gives the office locations of all departments, bureaus, and offices of the insular, provincial, and military governments, followed by the names of their heads or acting heads. Through recent arrangements with the civil-service board this directory is kept corrected weekly, and is the only strictly up-to-date list published in the islands.

HEADNOTES AND FOOTNOTES.

What is believed to be a distinct improvement in style of publication has lately been inaugurated by the introduction of headnotes and footnotes. Titles or headnotes have always been prefixed to the acts of the Commission and decisions of the supreme court. This plan has been extended to include the preparation of syllabi or headnotes to all matters published, thus enabling the reader to ascertain at a glance the gist of each opinion, resolution, circular, etc., and also reducing by one-half the labor of indexing. At the same time the convenience of the Gazette as a work for reference has been further increased by the introduction of footnotes. Early in June this office began the annotation of amendatory acts, indicating by means of footnotes the page of the Gazette at which the act amended might be found. This system has been extended so as to include the annotation of all opinions, executive orders, resolutions, decisions, circulars, and in fact everything published, so that the reader is never left in ignorance as to the exact page of a former Gazette at which may be found any act, resolution, executive order, or decision mentioned in the current number.