capital, but the total circulating notes so issued shall in no case exceed in amount nine million pesos (†9,000,000). XII. That the notes issued under the provisions of paragraph (a) of Section VIII of this agreement shall pay a tax at the rate of one-half of one per centum per annum; and the notes temporarily issued under the provisions of paragraph (b) of said Section VIII of this agreement shall pay a tax at the rate of one per cent. per annum, such taxes to be assessed upon the amount of notes actually in circulation outside the Bank and its branches, upon the average circulation per week or at fixed intervals not less frequently than once. a month, to be determined by regulations made by the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands. "XIII. That the notes of the Bank shall hereafter be issued to the Bank by the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands, who shall make requisitions upon the Bureau of Insular Affairs at Washington for such a supply as may be necessary to anticipate reasonable demands and keep such notes in his custody in the Treasury of the Philippine Islands; but said notes shall not have validity as currency until the seal and signatures are attached by the Bank. "In witness whereof this Memorandum of Agreement in duplicate has been signed this 8th date of June A. D., 1907, by Jeremiah J. Harty, Archbishop of Manila, as representing the Roman Catholic Church, and by Wm. H. Taft, Secretary of War, as representing the Government of the Philippine Islands. "In presence of: JEREMIAH J. HARTY [SEAL.] “EUGENE DE L. MCDONNELL, "PAUL CHARLTON, Now, therefore, "Archbishop of Manila. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The said informal agreement so entered into on behalf of the Government of the Philippine Islands by William H. Taft, Secretary of War, with Jeremiah J. Harty, Archbishop of Manila, on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church, and representing and controlling a majority of the capital stock of the Banco EspañolFilipino, is hereby confirmed, ratified and approved in all its parts. SEC. 2. The Attorney-General is hereby authorized and directed to enter into a stipulation with the defendants in the action now pending in the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands entitled T. H. Pardo de Tavera, Louis M. Maus, Leon M. Guerrero, Manuel Gomez Martinez and Frank S. Bourns, trustees of the College of San José, plaintiffs, vs. the Holy Roman Catholic Church, represented by the Most Reverend Archbishop of Manila, the Most Reverend Archbishop of New Orleans, Apostolic Delegate, and Raymundo Velasquez, Rector of the University of Santo Tomás, defendants, stipulating and agreeing that the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands shall enter judgment in the said action decreeing to the Roman Catholic Church of the Philippine Islands, as represented by the Archbishop of Manila, the right of possession and absolute title, free from all claims or demands of the Government of the Philippine Islands, to the buildings and other property, real, personal and mixed, pertaining to and belonging to the College of San José, said College to be administered for the specific purposes of its foundation. SEC. 3. The Attorney-General is hereby authorized and directed to enter into a stipulation with the plaintiffs in a certain action now pending in the Court of First Instance of the city of Manila, entitled Jeremiah J. Harty, in his capacity of Archbishop of Manila, and the Religious Corporation of the Franciscan Fathers of the Province of San Gregorio Magno of the Philippines, plaintiffs, vs. W. M. Tipton, defendant, stipulating that the court shall enter. a judgment therein decreeing: 66 First, to the Roman Catholic Church, free from all claims or demands of the Government of the Philippine Islands, the right of possession and absolute title to Block Numbered One hundred and fifty-six, and to Blocks Numbered from One hundred and fifty-nine to Two hundred and ten, both inclusive, or to such parts of said Blocks as belong to the San Lazaro Estate as shown on copy of the plan attached to said agreement, endorsed on the back as follows, Map referred to in agreement June 8th, 1907, identified in duplicate. Jeremiah J. Harty, Archbishop of Manila, Wm. H. Taft, Secy. of War," which plan is now on file in the office of the Executive Secretary attached to papers filed under Executive Bureau Number Ninety-seven thousand six hundred and thirty-nine (a-15) the above tract of land being delineated and described on a later official map of the San Lazaro Estate now on file in the office of the Director of Lands and identified by the certificates of the Director of Lands endorsed on the back thereof, as Block Sixty-five and Blocks Seventyfour to One hundred and fifteen, both inclusive; subject to the dedication to the public use of the streets and alleys shown on said last-mentioned map; Second, to the Government of the Philippine Islands free from all claims or demands of the Roman Catholic Church, the right of possession and absolute title, to the remainder of the San Lazaro Estate, including the San Lazaro Hospital, the San Lazaro Church or Chapel, the San Lazaro plant and all the buildings, and all other property and investments, real, personal, or mixed, of the hospital and foundation of San Lazaro, not decreed to the Roman Catholic Church as hereinbefore provided in this section. SEC. 4. The Attorney-General is hereby authorized and directed to procure from the Roman Catholic Church of the Philippine Islands proper legal conveyances to the Government of the Philippine Islands of all right, title and possession of the Roman Catholic Church in and to the following described properties, to wit: The buildings, plant, foundation and estates known as Santa Potenciana. SEC. 5. The Governor-General of the Philippine Islands is hereby authorized and directed, upon the entry of the judgments provided for in sections two and three of this Act, and upon the execution and delivery of the deed referred to in section four hereof, to execute proper conveyances of title to the Roman Catholic Church as represented by the Archbishop of Manila, conveying all the right, title and interest of the Government of the Philippine Islands in and to the following described property, to-wit: The buildings, foundation and property, real, personal and mixed, pertaining and belong ing to the Hospicio de San José, the Hospital de San Juan de Dios, the Hospital de San José in Cavite, and the Colegio de Santa Isabel. SEC. 6. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1725.] AN ACT To provide that the provisions of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifty-eight prohibiting the exhumation of human remains within one and one-half years after interment shall not appply to certain pending cases. Whereas a number of persons in the United States made arrangements to transfer the remains of deceased relatives and friends to their former homes before they had an opportunity to become acquainted with the provisions of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifty-eight, which prohibits the disinterment of human remains until one and one-half years have elapsed from the time of burial: Now, therefore, By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The Director of Health is hereby authorized to grant permits for the removal of all human remains in all such cases in which applications for disinterment have been made prior to the passage of this Act. SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1726.] AN ACT To amend Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two, known as the election law, by disqualifying certain persons from holding provincial or municipal offices and authorizing the governor-general to remove ineligible persons from office. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The sixth paragraph of section twelve of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two, known as "The Election Law," as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Unless fully pardoned, no person who is under judgment of conviction of a crime which is punishable by imprisonment for two years or more or which involves moral turpitude, regardless of whether or not an appeal is pending in the action, shall hold any public office, and no person disqualified from holding public office by the sentence of a court, whether or not an appeal is pending in the action, or so disqualified under the provisions of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty-six, as amended, shall be eligible to hold public office during the term of his disqualification." SEC. 2. Section twelve of said Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph to read as follows: "The Governor-General, upon receipt of proof satisfactory to him that an ineligible person is holding any provincial or municipal office or employment, may summarily remove such person." SEC. 3. The second paragraph of section twenty-five of said Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two is hereby amended to read as follows: 66 Upon the filing of said certificate in the office of the Executive Secretary, the Governor-General shall confirm the election of each of the candidates so certified unless there be a contest pending and undetermined in the courts, in which case he shall withhold confirmation with respect to any person involved in such contest until a certified copy of the decision of the court shall have been filed with the Executive Secretary. The Governor-General may refuse to confirm the election of any elective provincial officer if there is reasonable ground to suspect his loyalty to the constituted authorities, or if there is, in the opinion of the Governor-General, reasonable ground to believe that such person is morally unfit to hold public office, or in case, in the opinion of the Governor-General, such person has a bad reputation for morality, honesty and uprightness in the community in which he lives. In case of refusal to confirm the election of any provincial officer the Governor-General, with the advice and consent of the Philippine Commission, may appoint a suitable person to fill the vacancy for the full term and until the election and qualification of a successor or, in his discretion, may call a special election to fill the office as provided in section four hereof, and at such special election a person whose confirmation was so refused shall be ineligible and no vote shall be counted or canvassed for him." SEC. 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1727.] AN ACT Making appropriations for certain public works, permanent improvements, and other purposes of the government of the city of Manila. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The following sums, in Philippine currency, are hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular treasury not otherwise appropriated, for certain public works, permanent improvements, and other purposes of the government of the city of Manila: DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC WORKS. For the improvements of the Luneta extension, twenty thousand pesos. For expenses incident to the acquisition of land required for the widening of Calle Jolo, thirty-six thousand pesos. For the purchase of land and other expenses incident to the extension, straightening and widening of streets; for permanent street paving; and for the erection of permanent street monuments, fortyeight thousand five hundred pesos. DEPARTMENT OF CITY SCHOOLS. For the construction of a public school building in the district of Tondo, and purchase of site for same, sixty-two thousand pesos. For the construction of a retaining wall to protect the Malate city school site, six thousand pesos. DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION AND TRANSPORTATION. For the erection of an addition to the Sampaloc market, eight thousand pesos. MISCELLANEOUS. A continuing annual appropriation of fifty thousand pesos is hereby made for the purpose of repaying to the Insular government the loan granted in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That there shall be paid to the Insular government, not later than June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, from this appropriation the sum of one hundred thousand pesos on account of the payments corresponding to the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and, eight, no provision having been made heretofore for said payments. Bridges, esteros, parks and streets.-A continuing appropriation is hereby created under this head of all moneys received from leases and rentals of land and sales of real estate, belonging to the government of the city of Manila, and from receipts accruing to said government from the use of public thoroughfares by private persons, including franchise taxes payable to the city of Manila by corporations whose franchises include the privilege or right of locating in the public thoroughfares of the city electric light, power or telephone conduits or poles, street railway tracks, or other analogous privileges; and the funds accruing to this appropriation may be expended only for the curbing, extension, grading, paving, straightening, and widening of alleys, roads and streets; for the creation and improvement of public parks and plazas; for the construction of bridges; for dredging and improvement of esteros; for the acquisition of land, and for other purposes necessarily incident to the accomplishment of the objects of this appropriation as hereinbefore stated. Total of definite appropriations for all purposes, two hundred and eighty thousand five hundred pesos. |