REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. [Committee Report No. 149.] MR. PRESIDENT: The Committee on Appropriations, to which was referred on February 3, 1913, Assembly Bill No. 199, entitled “An Act appropriating the sum of fifty thousand pesos, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the construction of a schoolhouse to be denominated ‘José Rizal's School Building,' in the municipality of Calamba, Laguna," has examined the same and has the honor to report it back to the Commission with the following recommendation, viz: MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Municipal and Provincial Governments, to which was referred on January 31, 1913, Assembly Bill No. 216, entitled "An Act further to amend the Provincial Government Act by authorizing provincial boards to fix or change the salaries of lieutenant-governors of subprovinces governed under Act Numbered Eighty-three," has examined the same and has the honor to report it back to the Commission with the following recommendation, viz: That the bill be enacted. This bill authorizes the provincial board of a province having a subprovince, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, to fix or change by resolution the salary of the lieutenant-governor of such subprovince. At the present time an Act of the Legislature is necessary in each case. The salaries of all other subordinate officers and employees of provincial governments are fixed by the provincial boards with the approval of the Executive Secretary. Respectfully submitted. To the Honorable, JOSE R. DE LUZURIAGA, Chairman, Committee on Municipal and Provincial Governments. the PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. The report was accepted. Assembly Bill No. 216 was thereupon read the second time and referred to the Committee of the Whole. It was considered in committee and reported back to the Commission with the recommendation that it pass. The report and recommendation of the Committee of the Whole were accepted. On motion by Commissioner Luzuriaga, unanimously carried, The bill was considered urgent under the provisions of Rule XIV, Rules of the Commission, and read the third time by title only. The question then being upon its passage, the roll was called and the bill was unanimously passed and the title read and approved. [Committee Report No. 151.] MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Matters Pertaining to the Department of Public Instruction, to which was referred on February 3, 1913, Assembly Bill No. 347, entitled “An Act appropriating funds for the maintenance of pensionados in Insular schools," has examined the same and has the honor to report it back to the Commission with the following recommendation, viz: That this bill be passed. To the Honorable, NEWTON W. GILBERT, Committee on Matters Pertaining to the the PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. The report was accepted. Assembly Bill No. 347 was thereupon read the second time and referred to the Committee of the Whole. It was considered in committee and reported back to the Commission with the recommendation that it pass. The report and recommendation of the Committee of the Whole were accepted. On motion by Commissioner Gilbert, unanimously carried, The bill was considered urgent under the provisions of Rule XIV, Rules of the Commission, and read the third time by title only. The question then being upon its passage, the roll was called and the bill was unanimously passed and the title read and approved. [Committee Report No. 152.] MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Matters Pertaining to the Department of Public Instruction, to which was referred on February 3, 1913, Assembly Bill No. 331, entitled "An Act appropriating fifty thousand pesos for the School of Household Industries," has examined the same and has the honor to report it back to the Commission with the following recommendation, viz: That this bill be passed. To the Honorable, NEWTON W. GILBERT, Committee on Matters Pertaining to the the PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. The report was accepted. Assembly Bill No. 331 was thereupon read the second time and referred to the Committee of the Whole. It was considered in committee and reported back to the Commission with the recommendation that it pass. The report and recommendation of the Committee of the Whole were accepted. On motion by Commissioner Gilbert, unanimously carried, The bill was considered urgent under the provisions of Rule XIV, Rules of the Commission, and read the third time by title only. The question then being upon its passage, the roll was called and the bill was unanimously passed and the title read and approved. [Committee Report No. 153.] MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Matters Pertaining to the Department of Public Instruction, to which was referred on February 3, 1913, Assembly Bill No. 195, entitled "An Act authorizing municipal councils to appropriate, at the beginning of each year, from school funds, a certain sum for the creation and maintenance of night schools in English in their respective municipalities, under certain conditions," has examined the same and has the honor to report it back to the Commission with the following rcommendation, viz: That this bill be passed. To the Honorable, NEWTON W. GILBERT, Committee on Matters Pertaining to the the PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. The report was accepted. Assembly Bill No. 195 was thereupon read the second time and referred to the Committee of the Whole. It was considered in committee and reported back to the Commission with the recommendation that it pass. The report and recommendation of the Committee of the Whole were accepted. On motion by Commissioner Gilbert, unanimously carried, The bill was considered urgent under the provisions of Rule XIV, Rules of the Commission, and read the third time by title only. The question then being upon its passage, the roll was called and the bill was unanimously passed and the title read and approved. [Committee Report No. 154.] MR. PRESIDENT: The Committee on Matters Pertaining to the Department of Public Instruction, to which was referred on February 1, 1913, Assembly Bill No. 95, entitled "An Act amending Act Numbered Eleven hundred and forty-seven, entitled 'An Act regulating the registration, branding, conveyance, and slaughter of large cattle, and providing for the disposition, care, custody, and sale of estrays or large cattle captured or seized by the Philippines Constabulary or other peace officers, etc.,'" has examined the same and has the honor to report it back to the Commission with the following recommendation, viz: That this bill be passed. To the Honorable, NEWTON W. GILBERT, Committee on Matters Pertaining to the the PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. The report was accepted. Assembly Bill No. 95 was thereupon read the second time and referred to the Committee of the Whole. It was considered in committee and reported back to the Commission with the recommendation that it pass. The report and recommendation of the Committee of the Whole were accepted. On motion by Commissioner Gilbert, unanimously carried, The bill was considered urgent under the provisions of Rule XIV, Rules of the Commission, and read the third time by title only. The question then being upon its passage, the roll was called and the bill was unanimously passed and the title read and approved. [Committee Report No. 155.] MR. PRESIDENT: Your Committee on Matters Pertaining to the Department of the Interior, to which was referred on February 3, 1913, the amendments of the Assembly to Commission Bill No. 57, entitled "An Act prescribing the fees to be paid to registers of deeds upon the sale of the so-called 'Friar Lands' Estates, by adding new matter to section one hundred and fourteen of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six, as amended," has examined the same and has the honor to report it back to the Commission with the following recommendation, viz: That the Commission concur in the amendments of the Assembly, which have no other effect than to increase slightly the values of the pieces of property for which certificates of title may be issued at the prices originally fixed in the Commission Bill. Respectfully submitted. To the Honorable, DEAN C. WORCESTER, Committee on Matters Pertaining to the the PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. The report was accepted. The question then being on the concurrence of the Commission in the amendments of the Assembly to Commission Bill No. 57, the amendments were concurred in. Ordered, That Commission Bill No. 57 be enrolled and printed as an Act. [Committee Report No. 156.] MR. PRESIDENT: Your select committee of one, to which was referred on February 3, 1913, Assembly Bill No. 258, entitled “An Act amending section one of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and thirtyseven, entitled 'An Act to limit gambling on horseraces in the Philippine Islands to certain specific dates and providing penalties for violation of its provisions,' as amended by Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and ninety-nine, and providing for the payment by the owners of race horses of an annual tax of thirty pesos for each horse," has examined the same and has the honor to report it back to the Commission with the following recommendation, viz: That the bill be passed as it stands. The bill involves several advantages. Prominent among these is the considerable income which will accrue to the Insular Treasury |