IN EXECUTIVE SESSION FROM FEBRUARY 7, 1912, TO FEBRUARY 11, 1913.

Statement with reference to bills, resolutions, and reports of committees, acts of the legislative council of the Moro Province considered in executive session by the Commission from February 7, 1912, to February 11, 1913, and appointments confirmed by the Commission during the period from February 7, 1912, to February 11, 1913, inclusive.

When the Legislature is not in session, action taken by the Commission within its exclusive general legislative jurisdiction over all that part of the Philippine Islands inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes is recorded in the Executive Journal, and as this journal is not printed, the following information is taken therefrom and given here in order to afford in the printed journal a continuous record of all bills, resolutions, committee reports, and acts of the legislative council of the Moro Province considered by the Commission from the close of the period covered by Journal No. 5 to and including February 11, 1913. The numerical series of Commission bills, joint, concurrent, and house resolutions, and committee reports begin anew with each Legislature. There is also given in this statement a list of appointments confirmed by the Commission from February 7, 1912, to February 11, 1913, inclusive.

The following table shows the numbers of Commission bills, resolutions, and reports presented during the recess immediately preceding the Third Philippine Legislature, and during the first session thereof:

The following are the bills, resolutions, reports, and acts of the legislative council of the Moro Province, by titles or subjects, presented to the Commission during the periods from February 7, 1912, to October 15, 1912, inclusive, and resolutions adopted in executive session during the first session and the special session of 1913, Third Legislature, with information of the action taken thereon:

No. 155. An Act granting to the Government of the Moro Province title to the area in the harbor of Zamboanga reclaimed by that Government.

Introduced in second session of Second Legislature. (For previous history see Journal No. 5, p. 1014.) Passed and title amended, read, and approved on February 21, 1912. (See Act No. 2174.)

No. 188. An Act to amend Act Numbered Two thousand and sixty-one, so as to provide that the unexpended balance of the fund appropriated for the construction and equipment of an exchange building shall become a part of the reimbursable fund provided by said Act for the operation of the sales agency, and for other purposes.

February 16, 1912. Introduced by Commissioner Gilbert, read first and second times, considered in Committee of the Whole, read third time, and passed. (See Act No. 2173.)

No. 189. An Act appropriating for public works and permanent improvements in the Mountain Province.

March 13, 1912. Introduced by Commissioner Elliott, read first and second times, amended in Committee of the Whole, read third time, passed, and title amended, read, and approved. (See Act No. 2175.)

No. 190. An Act amending Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Baguio, and for other purposes," as amended, in order to make all fees and fines imposed and collected for infractions and violations of city ordinances by any justice of the peace with jurisdiction within the city of Baguio accrue to the benefit of the treasury of the city of Baguio.

March 13, 1912. Introduced by the President, read the first time by title, and referred to the Committee on Matters Pertaining to the Department of Finance and Justice.

June 17, 1912. Reported without amendment (Report No. 528), report accepted, bill read second time, amended in Committee of the Whole, read third time, passed, and title amended, read, and approved. (See Act No. 2184.)

No. 191. An Act authorizing the pasturing of horses, cattle, carabaos, sheep, and goats on public lands in the Mountain Province, the Moro Province, Nueva Vizcaya, and Agusan.

March 13, 1912. Introduced by Commissioner Araneta, read the first time by title, and referred to the Committee on Matters Pertaining to the Department of Public Instruction.

March 16, 1912. Reported without amendment (Report No. 519), report accepted, bill read second time, amended in Committee of the Whole, read third time, and passed. (See Act No. 2176.)

No. 192. An Act making applicable to that part of the Philippine Islands inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes certain Acts of the Second Philippine Legislature.

March 13, 1912. Introduced by Commissioner Araneta, read first time by title, and ordered on file for second reading.

March 16, 1912. Read second time, amended in Committee of the Whole, read third time, and passed. (See Act No 2177.)

No. 193. An Act making appropriation for the eradication of disease-breeding pests in the Mountain Province.

March 16, 1912. Introduced by Commissioner Gilbert, read first and second times, amended in Committee of the Whole, read third time, and passed. (See Act No. 2178.)

No. 194.

An Act authorizing the sale of the Baguio electric light plant to the city of Baguio.

March 16, 1912. Introduced by Commissioner Elliott, read first and second times, amended in Committee of the Whole, read third time, and passed. (See Act No. 2179.)

No. 195. An Act so amending Act Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-seven as to abolish the Court of First Instance now authorized by law to be held at Bongao, District of Jolo, Moro Province.

April 11, 1912. Introduced by the Acting President, read first and second times, considered in Committee of the Whole, read third time, passed, and the title amended, read, and approved. (See Act No. 2180.)

No. 196. An Act amending Act Numbered Twenty-one hundred and seventy-seven, entitled “An Act making applicable to that part of the Philippine Islands inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes certain Acts of the Second Philippine Legislature," by excepting from application to said territory certain provisions of Act Numbered Twenty-one hundred and seventeen relating to the collection of the cedula tax.

April 24, 1912. Introduced by Commissioner Worcester, read first and second times, amended in Committee of the Whole, read third time, and passed. (See Act No. 2181.)

No. 197. An Act appropriating the sum of twenty thousand pesos for the construction of the Filipina Dormitory at the Teachers' Camp, Baguio, Mountain Province.

May 20, 1912. Introduced by the Acting President, read first and second times, considered in Committee of the Whole, read third time, passed, and title amended, read, and approved. (See Act No. 2182.)

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No. 198. An Act amending section four of Act Numbered Two thousand and sixty-one entitled "An Act establishing a sales agency for articles manufactured in the schools in the provinces inhabited by Moros and other non-Christian tribes and by the people of said provinces, and appropriating money for the construction of a suitable building for the same, and for other purposes," so as to provide that the total compensation of the sales agent shall not be less than seven thousand pesos per annum.

May 20, 1912. Introduced by the Acting President, read the first and second times, amended in Committee of the Whole, read third time, and passed.

June 11, 1912. Reconsidered, further amended, passed, and title amended, read, and approved. (See Act No. 2183.)

No. 199. An Act appropriating funds for the construction of wireless telegraph stations in that part of the Philippine Islands inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes, provided a like amount shall be appropriated by the Congress of the United States and made available for use in connection with the money herein appropriated.

June 17, 1912. Introduced by Commissioner Elliott, read first and second times, amended in Committee of the Whole, read third time, and passed. (See Act No. 2185.)

No. 200. An Act making appropriations for sundry expenses of the provincial governments of Agusan, Nueva Vizcaya, and the Mountain Province for Insular expenses in the said provinces and the Moro Province for the period ending December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twelve.

June 17, 1912. Introduced by Commissioner Worcester, read first and second times, considered in Committee of the Whole, and further consideration postponed, amended in Committee of the Whole, read third time, and passed. (See Act No. 2186.)

No. 201. An Act appropriating the sum of three hundred and fifty-four thousand pesos for the improvement and maintenance of Baguio town site and Benguet Road and the operation and maintenance of the Benguet automobile line for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

June 18, 1912. Introduced by Commissioner Elliott, read first and second times, amended in Committee of the Whole, read third time, passed, and the title amended, read, and approved. (See Act No. 2187.)

No. 202. An Act making appropriation for certain permanent improvements in the city of Baguio, Mountain Province.

August 5, 1912. Introduced by the Acting President, read first and second times, considered in Committee of the Whole, read third time, and passed. (See Act No. 2188.)

No. 203. An Act making an appropriation for the extension of the water supply system of the city of Baguio.

September 17, 1912. Introduced by the Acting President, read first and second times, amended in Committee of the Whole, read third time, passed, and title amended, read, and approved. (See Act No. 2189.)

No. 204. An Act making applicable to the territory under the legislative jurisdiction of the Commission, Act of the Legislature Numbered Twenty-one hundred and twenty-one, entitled "An Act amending Act Numbered Eight hundred and seventeen by changing the method of appointment of locust boards and by defining the relation of the Bureau of Agriculture to the locust boards, and appropriating a sum of money for the purposes of said Act, and for other purposes," and making an appropriation for the purposes thereof.

September 17, 1912. Introduced by the Acting President, read first and second times, amended in Committee of the Whole, read third time, passed, and the title amended, read, and approved. (See Act No. 2190.)

No. 205. An Act prohibiting, in the territory under the exclusive legislative jurisdiction of the Philippine Commission, the payment of wages, except in legal tender money of the Philippine Islands.

September 17, 1912. Introduced by Commissioner Sumulong, read first and second times, and considered in Committee of the Whole. September 21, 1912. Consideration postponed. (For final action on this bill see ante, pp. 64, 65.)

No. 206. An Act making immediately available the sum of fiftyseven thousand pesos of the amount appropriated by Act Numbered Twenty-one hundred and eighty-five for the construction of wireless telegraph stations in that part of the Philippine Islands inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes.

October 8, 1912. Introduced by Commissioner Branagan, read first and second times, considered in Committee of the Whole, read third time, and passed. (See Act No. 2191.)

RESOLUTIONS.

No. 89. Resolved, That the Commission receives with profound sorrow the notice of the demise of Ellis Cromwell, Collector of Internal Revenue, and that it extends to his grief-stricken family its heartfelt sympathy in this the hour of their bereavement; and

Resolved, further, That these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the Commission and that a copy thereof be suitably engrossed and transmitted to the widow of the deceased.

February 12, 1912. Introduced by Commissioner Araneta, and adopted.

No. 90. Whereas the Philippine Railway Company, as a condition of the granting to it of the concessionary contract and grant under