VI. In unorganized territory, also in organized provinces, or parts thereof under military jurisdiction, collectors of customs, inspectors of customs, and collectors of internal revenue will discharge their duties as insular officers, reporting direct and making direct return to the civil government, and it should be understood by all commanding officers that the foregoing civil officials perform their functions under the direction of the civil executive jurisdiction of the civil governor. VII. Commanding officers of all military stations will report at once, through proper military channels, when the municipal organization of the towns in which they are located (within their commands) is complete, giving the number of police, their rank, etc., and how they are armed. VIII. Under the orders of the President as contained in the Executive order of June 21, 1901, all territory in the Philippine Islands not fully organized for civil government and formally transferred to the civil government will remain under military control, and its civil affairs will be administered as heretofore through the executive authority vested in the military governor. IX. The restoration of organized provinces to civil control and the extension of civil government to territory still remaing under military control will, for the information of all concerned, be announced from time to time in general orders from these headquarters. X. In connection with the foregoing, the following act of the United States Philippine Commission is published: [Act No. 173.] AN ACT restoring the provinces of Batangas, Cebu, and Bohol to the executive control of the military governor. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, That: Whereas in the provinces of Batangas, Cebu, and Bohol, which have been organized as provinces under the provincial government act, armed insurrection continues, and in the opinion of the commission it will facilitate the pacification of these provinces to remove them from the executive control of the civil governor and to put them under the executive control of the military governor. SECTION 1. The provincial and municipal officers of the provinces of Batangas, Cebu, and Bohol shall report to the military governor, and the military governor shall have the power to remove them and appoint others in their places, anything in the provincial act, the special acts organizing said provinces, or the municipal code to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. In case of military necessity, the military governor shall have the power to suspend the operation of any part of the laws of the commission applicable to the government of the provinces above named, and to substitute therefor, temporarily, general orders having the effect of law. SEC. 3. The writ of habeas corpus in the civil courts of the three provinces named shall not issue therefrom for the release of prisoners detained by order of the military governor or his duly authorized military subordinates. SEC. 4. The courts established by the commission in the three provinces above named shall continue to discharge their ordinary functions, civil and criminal, provided that the military governor is empowered to provide for the trial of ordinary crimes and misdemeanors by military commissions and provost courts, and to designate what of the ordinary crimes and misdemeanors shall be tried before such commissions or provost courts, and what crimes, if any, shall be tried in the civil courts. SEC. 5. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section 2 of "An act prescribing the order of procedure by the commission in the enactment of laws," passed September 26, 1900. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect on its passage. By command of Major-General Chaffee: W. P. HALL, Assistant Adjutant-General. One of the great desires of the people of the provinces is protection against the robbers and ladrones of their own race. They have wished for the presence of American troops to afford them this protection. Troops spend money in the towns where they are stationed and this also makes their presence desirable. But these benefits are becoming more and more offset by disadvantages that cause a good deal of irritation, and the people would now much prefer immediate protection by means of civil police. The army occupies the priest's house or convento, municipal and provincial buildings, the schoolhouses, and often many of the best private houses for officers' quarters, while their owners are required to live in nipa shacks. Rents are arbitrarily fixed and in many instances are either paid at long intervals or not at all. It does not promote the best feeling to throw soldiers and natives so closely together as this quartering of soldiers involves, especially if discipline is lax, as it sometimes is, and the longer these conditions continue the more irritating they will become. Nothing would delight the people of the provinces more than to see the American soldiers. withdrawn to posts outside the towns. It would be vastly better for the people and the soldiers. The change is urgently recommended. THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT. The central government of the islands established in September, 1900, under the instructions of the President, with a military governor as chief executive and the commission as the legislative body with certain executive functions in addition, continued until the 4th of July, 1901. At that time Maj. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee relieved Major-General MacArthur as commanding general of this division and military governor. By the order of June 21, previous, in all organized provinces the civil executive authority theretofore reposed in the military governor and in the commission was transferred on July 4 to a civil governor. The president of the commission was designated as civil governor. He was inaugurated with appropriate ceremonies on July 4. His inaugural address is appended to the report as Appendix D. By an order taking effect September 1, the purport of which was announced the 4th day of July, there were added to the commission, as a legislative body, three Filipinos, Dr. T. H. Pardo de Tavera, Señor Benito Legarda, and Señor José Luzuriaga. These gentlemen, the first two of them residents of Manila and the last a resident of the island of Negros, had been most earnest and efficient in bringing about peace in the islands. Dr. Tavera was the first president of the Federal party, had accompanied the commission in its trips to the southern provinces, and was most useful in the effective speeches which he delivered in favor of peace and good order at every provincial meeting. Señor Legarda had been valuable in the extreme to in the field all day is not likely to be as a keeping of his accounts as a civil official That irregularities crept in was to be exp know that the auditor has discovered no cism is against the manner of keeping thoroughly reformed and put upon the obtains in the United States. We have also been fortunate in securin A. Branagan as treasurer of the archipe commission as disbursing officer and offici been disbursing officer of the State Depa had filled the same position in the Depa entirely familiar with the methods of gov custody and disbursement of money. assist Mr. Lawshe in reforming methods. especially useful in supervising and rest provincial offices, a duty enjoined on him The other bureaus and offices need n attention will be called to them at a la will be sufficient to say here that by an of which went into effect September 1 the f commission were made the heads of four e embraced within their supervisory contro of the government, except those which w P C 1901-PT 1-- -2 direction of the civil governor. The central government as at present constituted is thus organized: A civil governor, having general supervision over the four executive departments and having direct supervision over the following: The civil governor; an executive secretary; the civil service board; the insular purchasing agent; the municipal and provincial governments. The department of the interior.—The bureau of health; the quarantine service of the marine hospital corps; the bureau of forestry; the bureau of mining; the bureau of agriculture; a bureau of fisheries; the weather bureau; the bureau of non-Christian tribes; the bureau of public lands; the bureau of government laboratories, and the bureau of patents and copyrights. The department of commerce and police.-A bureau of island and inter-island transportation; the bureau of post-offices; the bureau of telegraphs; the bureau of coast and geodetic survey; a bureau of engineering and construction of public works other than public buildings; a bureau of insular constabulary; a bureau of prisons; a bureau of light-houses; a bureau of commercial and street railroad corporations, and all corporations except banking. The department of finance and justice. The bureau of the insular treasury; the bureau of the insular auditor; the bureau of customs and immigration; the bureau of internal revenue; the insular cold storage and ice plant; a bureau of banks, banking, coinage and currency, and the bureau of justice. The department of public instruction.-The bureau of public instruction; a bureau of public charities, public libraries, and museums; the bureau of statistics; a bureau of public records; a bureau of public printing, and a bureau of architecture and construction of "ublic buildings. THE INSULAR PURCHASING AGENT. An important bureau which the commission has found it necessary to create is that of the insular purchasing agent. The supplies needed in the provincial governments and in the various offices of the central government are so many and various and it is often so difficult to procure what is needed without sending to the United States for it, that it has been found necessary to require by law that all purchases of supplies for the provincial and central governments should be made through one person. He is furnished with a large sum of money with which to buy a stock of the supplies likely to be needed and is empowered to sell them to each province and bureau which needs them and to charge them the cost price with 10 per cent added. To him also is intrusted the duty of making contracts for official transportation over the steamship lines of the islands and also of furnishing the official cab transportation in the city of Manila. The office is a most impor tant one. The information which the incumbent has as to the proper method of purchasing at reasonable rates is a source of much economy to the general government. COMMITTEES OF COMMISSION. The commission, with its new members, has reorganized its committees, which are as follows: Agriculture and Fisheries.-Commissioner Luzuriaga, chairman; Commissioners Worcester and Tavera. Appropriations.-Commissioner Ide, chairman; Commissioners Luzuriaga and Tavera. Banking and Currency.-Commissioner Luzuriaga, chairman; Commissioners Ide and Legarda. City of Manila.-Commissioner Legarda, chairman; the president and Commissioner Ide. Commerce.-Commissioner Wright, chairman; Commissioners Luzuriaga and Ide. Franchises and Corporations.-Commissioner Wright, chairman; the president and Commissioner Legarda. Health.-Commissioner Tavera, chairman; Commissioners Worcester and Moses. Judiciary.-Commissioner Ide, chairman; Commissioner Wright and the president. Municipal and Provincial Governments.-Commissioner Tavera, chairman; the president and Commissioner Worcester. Non-Christian Tribes.-Commissioner Worcester, chairman; Commissioners Tavera and Wright. Police and Prisons.-Commissioner Wright, chairman; Commissioners Legarda and Moses. Printing.-Commissioner Moses, chairman; Commissioner Tavera and the president. Public Instruction.-Commissioner Moses, chairman; Commissioners Tavera and Worcester. Public Lands, Mining, and Forestry.-Commissioner Worcester, chairman; the president and Commissioner Luzuriaga. Taxation and Revenue.-Commissioner Legarda, chairman; Commissioners Ide and Moses. GENERAL THEORY IN FORMATION OF THE GOVERNMENT. The theory upon which the commission is proceeding is that the only possible method of instructing the Filipino people in methods of free institutions and self-government is to make a government partly of Americans and partly of Filipinos, giving the Americans the ultimate control for some time to come. In our last report we pointed out that the great body of the people were ignorant, superstitious, |