Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of WarU.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 Includes information by the Commission and various public officials and agencies on the economic, social, geographic and local governmental development of the Philippines. |
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abaca accrued leave agriculture Albay Ambos Camarines American amount appointed authorized Balance barrios Batangas Benguet Bohol Bulacan Bureau of Insular Cagayan Capiz carabao cattle Cavite Cebu Cedulas cent city of Manila condition constabulary construction of buildings court district duties election Exchanges of currency executive expenditures expenses fees Filipinos fiscal year 1907 governor-general Ilocos Ilocos Norte Ilocos Sur Iloilo improvements increase industrial inhabitants Insular Affairs insular government insular treasury July June 30 labor land tax Leyte ment Miscellaneous credits non-Christian Nueva Ecija Pampanga Pangasinan payment Permanent equipment persons pesos Philippine Assembly Philippine Commission Philippine Islands piculs prisoners provincial and municipal provincial board Provincial funds provincial governor provincial treasurer pueblos Purchase of land purposes Refund from insular registration Rentals for buildings Repairs and construction rice Roads and bridges Salaries of provincial Samar secretary Sorsogon Spanish Tarlac teachers tion Total township United Zambales
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Page 29 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and...
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Page 224 - 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.
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Page 69 - An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 133 - ... thereto; that I will obey the laws, legal orders, and decrees promulgated by its duly constituted authorities; that I impose upon myself this obligation voluntarily, without mental reservation or purpose of evasion. So help me God.
Page 28 - Dominican Republic until the payment or retirement of any and all bonds issued by the Dominican Government in accordance with the plan and under the limitations as to terms and amounts hereinbefore recited...
Page 69 - Sea, within the jurisdiction of the United States, shall be subject to exploration and mining for gold and other precious metals by citizens of the United States, or persons who have legally declared their intentions to become such, under such...
Page 48 - Philippine Commission, the President upon being satisfied thereof shall direct said Commission to call, and the Commission shall call, a general election for the choice of delegates to a popular assembly of the people of said territory in the Philippine Islands, which shall be known as the Philippine Assembly.
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