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Page 185 - During the fiscal year 1912, 250 documents, consisting of articles and amended articles of incorporation, certificates of increase of capital stock, by-laws and amended by-laws...
Page 3 - ... in that part of the Philippine Islands inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes.
Page 139 - GENTLEMEN: I have the honor to submit the following as the report of the work of the department of commerce and police for the fiscal year...
Page 5 - LEGISLATION. During the last session of the Legislature a final effort was made by the Philippine Commission to secure legislation prohibiting and penalizing slavery, involuntary servitude, peonage, and the sale or purchase of human beings in the Philippine Islands. On October 24, 1912, that body passed an act designed to accomplish this end. It was tabled by the Philippine Assembly on January 8, 1913, without discussion. I subsequently prepared a report on slavery and peonage in the Philippine Islands...
Page 197 - OF JUSTICE. The legal work performed by the bureau of justice during the fiscal year, as compared with the previous fiscal year, is shown in condensed form in the following summary: The attorney general took charge of and administered the estates of 27 deceased American employees and took preliminary steps pending the appointment of an administrator by the court in 4 estates.
Page 223 - Insular schools),, 293 in the intermediate schools, 29 in primary schools, and 35 in the Philippine Normal School and the Philippine School of Arts and Trades.
Page 17 - ... shall be deemed to be appropriated; and until the Legislature shall act in such behalf the treasurer may, with the advice of the governor, make the payments necessary...
Page 243 - ... visited by large numbers of interested farmers at various railway stations. It is under the charge of employees of the bureau of agriculture, who both lecture on pertinent topics and distribute carefully selected seed.
Page 229 - Many people are unwilling to contribute to the support of the schools, but they send their children to them none the less. Of course if we have public schools, however they are supported, they must be open to everyone, and this condition is apt to result in misunderstandings and bickerings. 3. I also here reiterate my former recommendations that there be no further extension of the time when English is to- become the official language of the government. Without again going into the reasons for this...
Page 29 - Department recognize the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, to be held in San Francisco in 1915...