Report of the Governor General of the Philippine IslandsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 |
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Ambos Camarines American amount appointed appropriation approval Area assessment authorized Baguio Benguet Bontoc building bureau of health Capiz Cebu cent charge city of Manila collections completed constabulary construction cost court decrease director of health district division employees estates executive bureau executive secretary expenses Filipinos fiscal year 1913 forest funds Governor hectare hospital Igorots Ilocos Ilocos Norte Ilocos Sur Iloilo important improvements income increase insular government Isabela June 30 kilometers large number Legislature loans ment meters Mindoro Moro Province municipal councils municipal governments necessary Negros Negros Occidental Negros Oriental non-Christian Nueva Ecija Nueva Vizcaya operation Palawan Pangasinan pending Philippine General Hospital Philippine Islands progress provincial and municipal provincial board public land purchase purposes receipts received result revenue rice road sanitary Santa Sorsogon subprovince surveys tion total number town typhoons United
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Page 3 - Commission in its exclusive legislative jurisdiction over all that part of the Philippine Islands inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes passed Act No.
Page 3 - Acting within its exclusive legislative jurisdiction over all that part of the Philippine Islands inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes...
Page 3 - That for the purpose of providing funds to construct sewers, to furnish adequate sewer and drainage facilities, to secure a sufficient supply of water, and to provide all kinds of municipal betterments and improvements in municipalities, the government...
Page 90 - Islands and for other purposes" provides that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted shall exist in said islands"; and Whereas the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands in the case of the United States v.
Page 15 - And provided further. That if at the termination of any session the appropriations necessary for the support of government shall not have been made, an amount equal to the sums appropriated in the last appropriation bills for such purposes 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 for the purposes aforesaid.
Page 90 - July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled, "An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 129 - The military authorities continue to exercise all the care heretofore exercised to prevent the spread of the disease. (2) That in the fullness of precaution, each infected man's locker and his clothing in use be disinfected on the transport as soon as the diagnosis is made. (3) That all personnel infected be sent to hospitals and suspects be kept under observation of medical officers, in hospitals if necessary, if belonging or attached to the military service, while civilians infected or exposed...
Page 4 - An act providing that the assessment of, and tax on, real and personal property shall not include machinery as herein defined. An act to afford relief to sufferers from the typhoons of October and November, nineteen hundred and twelve. An act further to amend section thirty-three, chapter four of act numbered nine hundred and twenty-six, entitled "The public land act...
Page 114 - ... water. DUTIES OF THE BUREAU OF HEALTH. The duties assigned to the bureau of health include not only those usually imposed on similar organizations in the United States, such as the collection and compilation of vital statistics and the protection of the public from dangerous communicable diseases, but also embrace the distribution of certain public charity funds; care of the insane; supervision of the care of. orphans and of the aged...
Page 73 - L shows the nature and result of the 306 charges brought against the 152 officers referred to in Appendix F. The totals of the two appendixes do not coincide, for the reason that an officer is frequently charged in the same case with several different offenses, found guilty of some and acquitted of others. DIVISION OF LEGISLATIVE RECORDS. This division is under a chief, who is also secretary of the Commission.