the Government of the Philippine Islands

“ All the provisions of the Municipal Code for the assessment of the value of taxable property, for the enforcement of the collection of taxes and the sale of property for delinquent taxes, together with the redemption of land so sold, and the remedies therein provided for alleged unjust taxes, shall apply to the collection and enforcement of provincial taxes, including the provision for penalties, and the municipal and provincial taxes may be collected in one legal proceeding in the name of the provincial treasurer for the use of the municipality and the province. ”

“ Any person who knowing the purposes for which such trade-mark or trade-name is to be used, and that it is the property of one person, prints, lithographs, or in any way reproduces such trade-mark or trade-name, or a colorable imitation thereof, for another person to enable that other person fraudulently to use such trade-mark or trade-name in the deception of the public and the defrauding of the real owner of the trade-mark or trade-name, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding eighteen months, or both, in the discretion of the court. ”

“ The provincial supervisor shall be a competent civil engineer and surveyor. The provincial fiscal shall be a regularly admitted member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the Islands, and shall be able to speak and write the Spanish language, and, after January 1, 1906, the English language also. Before the provincial treasurer shall qualify, he shall give a bond to the Insular Government for the benefit of whom it may concern with sufficient surety in a penal sum equal to the greatest amount of public funds from all sources which is likely to be in his custody at any one time. ”

“ Mexican is hereby appropriated out of any money in the insular treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be expended in the immediate construction and repair of highways and bridges in the Philippine Islands. ”

“ A trade-mark is a name, emblem, sign, or device employed by any person, firm, or corporation to designate the goods dealt in or manufactured by such person, firm, or corporation, for the purpose of enabling the public to recognize such goods and manufactures, and to distinguish them from the goods and manufactures of others. ”

“ A judge of First Instance shall have power to issue writs of injunction and to make orders appointing receivers in causes pending in a Court of First Instance within his district and all other preliminary and interlocutory orders, when he is within the district but without the province ”

“ Whereas the construction of railways and the establishment of commercial steamship routes and other conditions render it necessary, in consideration of the public convenience and interest, that provincial and municipal boundary lines and seats of governments be changed, in order that unnecessary expenditures of time and private funds by taxpayers and other persons having business to transact with the Government may be avoided ”

“ Certified copies of trade-marks or trade-names and of statements and declaration filed therewith, and original certificates of registry, shall be evidence in any suit in which such trade-marks or trade-names shall be brought into controversy. But registration of trade-marks and trade-names under this Act shall only be prima facie evidence of the exclusive right by the person securing the registration to use the same.
SEC. 16. A certificate of registry shall remain in force for thirty years from its date, except in cases where the trade-mark is claimed for, and applied to. ”

“ The municipality of Los Baños shall consist of its present territory and that of the municipality of Bay, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Los Baños.” (e) By amending paragraph numbered eight so as to read as fallows: “8. The municipality of Biñan shall consist of its present territory and that of the municipality of San Pedro Tunasan, and of the municipality of Muntinlupa, heretofore a part of the Province of Rizal and by section three of this Act made a part of the Province of La Laguna. ”

“ On the first Monday in February of the year 1902, and of each second year thereafter, the councilors of every duly organized municipality in the province shall meet in joint convention at the capital of the province and there, after selecting a presiding officer and secretary, shall by secret ballot choose a person to be the provincial governor. A majority of those present and entitled to vote shall be necessary to elect. ”

“ Whenever such action as aforesaid creates a new political subdivision the Governor-General shall appoint such officers for the new subdivision with such powers and duties as may be required by the existing provisions of law applicable to the case and fix their salaries; such appointees shall hold office until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified. ”

“ At the next election for the office of Representative in the Province of Capiz, the three electoral districts of said province shall be composed of the following municipalities: First District, of the municipalities of Capiz, Dao, Dumarao, Iuisan, Panay, Panitan, Pilar, and Pontevedra ”

“ No person shall he eligible for any of these offices who is not either a citizen of the United States, a native of the Philippine Islands or a person who, not being the subject or citizen of any other power or government, may have under and by virtue of the Treaty of Paris, acquired the political rights of a native of the islands ”

“ The citizens and residents of this country wishing the protection of trade-marks in any foreign country, the laws of which require registration here as a condition precedent to getting such protection there, may register their trade-marks for that purpose, as is above allowed to foreigners, and have certificate thereof from the Bureau of Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks, upon payment of the same fee as that required by section eleven. ”

“ Every provincial government established under this Act shall be a body corporate, with power to sue and be sued, to have and use a corporate seal, to hold property real and personal, to make contracts for labor and material needed in the construction of duly authorized public works, and to incur such other obligations as are expressly authorized by law.
SEC. 3. In every provincial government there shall he a provincial governor, a provincial secretary, a provincial treasurer, a provincial supervisor and a provincial fiscal. ”

“ Whereas some few of the provinces have very little revenue to support a provincial government and secure for the people necessary betterments and as to such provinces it may become necessary to use thorn with other provinces ”

“ FOURTEENTH DISTRICT.
At Jolo, in and for the Jolo group, commencing on the first Tuesdays of January and July of each year.
At Bongao, in and for the Tawi-Tawi group, commencing on the third Tuesdays of February and August of each year.
At Puerto Princesa, in the Island of Paragua, for the Island of Paragua and its adjacent islands, commencing on the first Tuesdays of April and October of each year.
At Cuyo, in the Cuyo Islands, for the Calamiancs Islands and the Cuyo Islands, commencing on the first Tuesdays of May and November of each year.
SEC. 4. ”

“ For the salary of one interpreter for the San Miguel and Quiapo stations, one hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; for the salary of one stenographer for the central police station, three hundred dollars. ”

“ To order the monthly payment of all salaries provided by law and the payment of all lawfully contracted indebtedness, by directing the issue of warrants upon the provincial treasurer. Every warrant shall be drawn by the governor and countersigned by the secretary, and shall recite the cause and purpose of drawing the same, the date of the resolution of the board authorizing it, and the page of the minutes of the board's proceedings in which it is recorded. ”

“ This work is in the public domain because it is a work of the Philippine government (see Republic Act No. 8293 Sec. 176) .
All official Philippine texts of a legislative, administrative, or judicial nature, or any official translation thereof, are ineligible for copyright. ”

“ 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. ”

“ For the district commander of Pollok, Mindanao, for salaries and wages, five hundred and fifty-one dollars; for rents and repairs, one hundred and twenty dollars; for subsistence for prisoners, convicts, and destitute citizens, ninety dollars; for medicines and for miscellaneous expenses, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars; for salary of school teacher and interpreter and for miscellaneous expenses for December, nineteen hundred, eighty dollars. ”