Resolved further, That the director of science may forward to present subscribers who may not renew their subscriptions by January 1, 1907, copies of one or the other of the sections above mentioned during a period of three months in order that such subscribers may have an opportunity to signify whether or not they desire to continue their subscriptions under the new arrangement, no charge to be made for the copies so forwarded in the case of persons who fail to renew their subscriptions.

CONGRESSIONAL RELIEF FUND LOAN TO PROVINCE OF TAYABAS FOR RELIEF OF INHABITANTS OF BALER AND CASIGURAN SUFFERING FROM

RESULTS OF RECENT STORM.

[Excerpt from minutes of the Commission of October 24, 1906.]

The president presented to the Commission a telegram received from the provincial secretary of Tayabas advising of the damage done by a recent severe storm which passed over the towns of Baler and Casiguran and caused serious inundations, destroying houses and crops. Request was made for funds or provisions for the relief of people suffering from the results of the storm. The president suggested the advisability of granting the province of Tayabas similar relief to that granted recently to Cagayan and Isabela by appropriating the sum of 2,000 from the unexpended balance of the Congressional relief fund. After consideration, it was, on motion

Resolved, That the governor-general be authorized to expend from the fund appropriated by act No. 1406 from the Congressional relief fund the sum of 2,000 for the relief of distress in the municipalities of Casiguran and Baler in the province of Tayabas, said sum to be expended by the provincial board of Tayabas either in the purchase of food for such inhabitants as may be in immediate need or in employing them in such public works as the provincial board may deem best; and

Resolved further, That the expenditures thus authorized be made by the provincial treasurer of the province upon resolution of the provincial board.

CARABAOS-EXTENSION OF TIME TO ARTURO BERNIA FOR PAYMENT OF

THIRD INSTALLMENT OF PURCHASE PRICE.

[Excerpt from minutes of the Commission of October 31, 1906.]

Commissioner Luzuriaga presented a request from Arturo Bernia, a resident of Floridablanca, Pampanga Province, requesting an extension of three months from October 27, 1906, in which to pay the third installment of the cost of 15 carabaos purchased from the insular government and offering to pay 6 per cent interest on the amount of said installment for the period of extension. Commissioner Luzuriaga stated that Mr. Bernia had already paid two installments, amounting to 1,090.10 on these carabaos and that the third installment amounted to P545.05, and recommended that in view of the

money stringency in the province at present, due to the failure of the last crops, the extension requested be granted: On motion, it was

Resolved, That the request of Arturo Bernia, of Floridablanca, Pampanga, for an extension of three months from October 27, 1906, for the payment of the third installment, amounting to P545.05 of the purchase price of 15 carabaos purchased by him from the insular government, be granted, the said amount, for the period of extension, to bear interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum and to be paid by Mr. Bernia at the time of payment of the installment referred to.

CARABAOS-AUTHORIZING REFUND OF PURCHASE PRICE TO L. M. HERAS. [Excerpt from minutes of the Commission of October 31, 1906.]

Commissioner Luzuriaga presented for consideration a petition received from L. M. Heras for the return of P34 from the insular government paid by him for one carabao calf purchased from the government and which died from injuries received en route from Burias Island shortly after its delivery to him: On motion, it was

Resolved, That the purchasing agent be authorized and directed to return to L. M. Heras the sum of 34 paid by him for the purchase of one carabao calf from the insular government and which died in his possession as the result of injuries sustained during the voyage from Burias Island to the place of delivery.

CONGRESSIONAL RELIEF FUND EXPENDITURE FOR RELIEF OF DISTRESSED INHABITANTS OF CAGAYAN VALLEY.

[Excerpt from minutes of the Commission of December 5, 1906.]

On motion, Resolved, that the governor-general be, and is hereby, authorized to expend from the appropriation made by act No. 1406 from the Congressional relief fund the sum of 5,000, Philippine currency, to be expended by the provincial board of Cagayan in the furnishing of further relief to the inhabitants of the province who are suffering from hunger and lack of shelter due to the overflow of the Cagayan River, either by the purchase of food for such inhabitants as may be in immediate need or by employing them in such public works as the provincial board may deem best; and

Resolved further, That the expenditures be made by the provincial treasurer of the province upon resolutions of the provincial board.

CONGRESSIONAL RELIEF FUND--EXPENDITURE FOR RELIEF OF DISTRESSED INHABITANTS OF THE PROVINCE OF ISABELA.

[Excerpt from minutes of the Commission of December 5, 1906.]

On motion, Resolved, That the governor-general be, and he is hereby, authorized to expend from the appropriation made by act No. 1406 from the Congressional relief fund the sum of 2.000, Philip

pine currency, to be expended by the provincial board of Isabela in the furnishing of further relief to the inhabitants of the province who are in actual distress as a result of the recent severe storm in northern Luzon, either by the purchase of food for such inhabitants as may be in immediate need or by employing them in such public works as the provincial board may deem best; and

Resolved further, That the expenditures be made by the provincial treasurer of the province upon resolutions of the provincial board.

CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES ALLOWING ACCRUED LEAVE AND TRAVELING EXPENSES BEFORE COMPLETION OF TWO YEARS' SERVICE WHEN SEPARATED FROM THE SERVICE THROUGH NO FAULT.

[Excerpt from minutes of the Commission of December 7, 1906.]

Commissioner Shuster presented a communication from the director of printing to the effect that Charles A. Vail was appointed in the bureau of printing as a linotype machinist on February 15, 1905, at a salary of 3,600 per annum, but that, at the present time, in the interests of economy, it is practicable and desirable to abolish his position, recommending, however, in justice to Mr. Vail, that he be allowed all accrued leave earned by him for the time served, and the expenses incurred by him, as well as half pay, while traveling from the United States to his station in Manila, the provisions of paragraph (a), section 2, and paragraph (a), section 9, of act No. 1040, to the contrary notwithstanding.

An examination of the record showed that this case was analogous to the case of Mrs. Bertha M. Barrick, who, by resolution of the Commission dated December 7, 1905, was allowed accrued leave, although she had not completed two years' service at the time of her separation, and to the case of Capt. Philip Leblond, who was allowed traveling expenses incurred by him returning from the United States to the Philippine Islands from leave of absence, although he had not rendered two years' additional service as required by section 2 of act No. 1040.

After consideration, on motion, it was

Resolved, That it is the sense of the Commission that where a regularly appointed employee of the permanent service is separated therefrom because of death, lack of work, or abolishment of his position, and through no fault of his own, he should be allowed such accrued leave as he may have earned for the time served, and the traveling expenses incurred by him, as well as half pay earned en route from the United States to the Philippine Islands, which would have been payable had he been permitted to render two years' service required by paragraph (a), section 2, and paragraph (a), section 9 of act No. 1040, and that, therefore, the allowance to Mr. Vail of the accrued leave earned for the time that he has served, to be computed by the bureau of civil service, and the traveling expenses incurred by him, as well as half pay, while en route from the United States to the Philippine Islands, the amount of which will be determined by the insular auditor, be, and is hereby, approved.

CONGRESSIONAL RELIEF FUND PAYMENT OF LAND TAX UPON LAND OF SEÑOR VICENTE LOPEZ FOR 1903.

[Excerpt from minutes of the Commission of December 14, 1906.]

Whereas a certain parcel of land in the municipality of Orani, Province of Bataan, was tendered the insular government in the year 1903 by Señor Vicente Lopez for use in the pasture of carabaos then being imported by the insular government, and, while no charge was to be made for the use of said land, Señor Lopez claims that he had a verbal agreement with the Hon. William H. Taft, then civil governor, that the property was to be exempted from the land tax upon the same then due and in arrears; and

Whereas while there is no record of such agreement having been made and therefore the insular government can not recognize the claim of Señor Lopez, nevertheless in view of the fact that the land was actually used by the insular government for the purposes mentioned and of the fact that Señor Lopez's insistence upon the point makes it appear probable that Governor Taft contemplated asking the Commission to give Señor Lopez some compensation for the use of his land; and

Whereas the exemption of the land from taxation for three years, as requested by Señor Lopez, would result in the payment by the government of a very high rental in view of the fact that the land was occupied less than a year, but the release of the land from taxation for the year 1903, in which it was used, would be a reasonable and equitable compensation: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved, That, without acknowledging any obligation upon the part of the insular government, the governor-general is hereby authorized to expend from the funds appropriated by act No. 1406 from the Congressional relief fund, the sum of P130.18, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of paying the land tax upon said land of Señor Vincente Lopez for the year 1903, together with the penalty and interest thereon.

CIVIL-SERVICE EMPLOYEES-TRANSPORTATION TO THE UNITED STATES AFTER THREE YEARS' SERVICE TO BE TAKEN WITHIN SIX MONTHS AFTER SEPARATION FROM THE SERVICE.

[Excerpt from minutes of the Commission of December 14, 1906.]

The recorder presented a communication from the second assistant executive secretary inclosing an application from Mr. Albert E. Somersille, formerly an employee of the provincial government of Albay, who resigned his position on August 31, 1906, after more than three years' continuous service, and is therefore entitled to return transportation to the United States at government expense, less $30 United States currency. It appeared, however, that Mr. Somersille did not desire to use this transportation at present, but merely filed his request in order that he might preserve his right to receive such transportation when ready to use it. The second

assistant executive secretary suggested that this raised the question whether or not the Commission, by its resolution of February 14, 1905, deciding that applications of this kind by resigning employees should be "filed" within six months after resignation, intended to mean that transportation could be furnished at government expense at any subsequent time, possibly several years removed, provided the application was made within six months after resignation, or whether it was the intention of the Commission that applications should not only be filed, but the transportation granted the employee as well, within six months after resignation: It was, on motion,

Resolved, That the second assistant executive secretary be informed that the intention of the Commission in its resolution of February 14, 1905, was that transportation should not only be applied for within six months from the date of separation from the service, but actually taken within that time.

PUBLICATIONS-AUTHORIZING THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL TO ARRANGE FOR THE PUBLICATION OF GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING IN ONE OF THE

VISAYAN NEWSPAPERS.

[Excerpt from minutes of the Commission of December 14, 1906.]

After a discussion of the question of the payments now made by the government monthly to certain of the Manila newspapers and the advisability of publishing the laws and resolutions of the Commission and notices and advertising matter of the government of general interest in a newspaper established in some other part of the islands with a good circulation: On motion, it was

Resolved, That it is the sense of the Commission that it is unnecessary to authorize the publication at the expense of the government of notices, laws, resolutions, advertising, etc., of the government in any additional newspaper in Manila, for the reason that the publication thereof in three American newspapers and three Filipino newspapers as at present is sufficient to give the necessary information to the inhabitants of Manila and vicinity, but it is deemed advisable to consider the publication of such notices, etc., in one of the Visayan papers, "El Tiempo" preferred on account of its large circulation; and be it

Resolved further, That the governor-general be, and is hereby, authorized to take this matter up with the newspaper "El Tiempo and inform such newspaper that the government is willing to authorize the payment thereto of P150 per month on condition that it will publish all laws and such resolutions and government advertising of general interest, except ordinances, notices, and advertising matter of the city of Manila, as may be forwarded to it for publication. by the executive secretary, and in the event that said newspaper accepts this proposition the governor-general be, and is hereby, authorized to make such agreement with the said newspaper as may be necessary to accomplish the end desired.