will require careful and painstaking work of a high order, and upon which it is suggested the time has now come to make a start. A competent lawyer, experienced in such revision, if put to work at this time in the legislative division, could do much toward gathering together the existing legislation and arranging and preparing a basis for consideration by such codification committee as might subsequently be appointed. Besides the fact that such a codification would be of great help to the judicial and administrative officers of the government, it is believed that action along this line would be greeted with unqualified approval and satisfaction by the Filipino people, who, not being familiar with the American system of legislation, have been more or less confused by the lack of codes, to which they have always been accustomed. If it were possible to complete the revision before the establishment of the popular assembly in 1907, it would be of vast assistance to that body, a point which is also worthy of serious consideration.

Very respectfully,

The EXECUTIVE SECRETARY.

C. W. CALVIN, Recorder, Philippine Commission.

APPENDIX E.

THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE TRANSLATING DIVISION TO THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY.

MANILA, October 2, 1905.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the work of the translating division of the executive bureau from October 1, 1904, to September 30, 1905, both inclusive:

Both in the character and the amount of work performed there has been little change from the conditions described in the second annual report of the division attached as Appendix D to the third annual report of the executive secretary to the civil governor. Translations have, however, been accomplished with more dispatch. The undersigned has on several occasions strongly recommended the broadening of the scope of the work done under his charge, in order to include the translation of all important papers originating in the different departments of the government. Under present conditions, from incomplete information received from chiefs of bureaus, it is estimated that nearly as much translating is done under their immediate supervision as is done in this office. A great deal of this work is of an important character and requires intelligent revision. This it can not have in the majority of the bureaus.

. In my report to the reorganization committee I again recommended that all government documents published by the different bureaus which are of general interest to the inhabitants of these islands should be translated into the Spanish language, and that such translation should be done under a competent head. The reason for this is obvious. As it is, I am informed-correctly, I believe, from my own observation in a few cases-poor translations are made and published of official documents which should have been submitted to the closest scrutiny of an intelligent translator before being published.

I laid particular stress on the importance of translating the annual report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War, as it is a comprehensive review of all the work accomplished by the government in its different departments and contains many valuable technical publications of interest, not only to government officials, but to the public at large.

I also spoke of the necessity of translating the annual report of the municipal board of the city of Manila and of giving it as wide distribution as possible among the taxpayers of Manila in order that a great many erroneous ideas with regard to the disbursements of the city's finances, strengthened by the reading of various criticisms published in the Spanish papers of Manila, might be dispelled. Most of the statements referred to were based upon a misunderstanding of the text of the report by the self-appointed critics. It would have been a complete refutation of their criticisms for the government to have presented a faithful and exact translation of the financial operations of the municipality.

I think that a practical plan could be devised which if followed would obviate all of these shortcomings by requiring all government papers, no matter where originating, which are of general interest to the people to be translated in this division. Of course it is not the scheme to include correspondence or any papers other than of a public

nature.

By increasing the personnel of this division with two competent translators from Spanish to English and securing the services of one more expert translator to Spanish all of this work could be done with more dispatch and correctness than it has been heretofore.

If these considerations are not sufficient in themselves to warrant the increase in personnel that I recommend, the fact that within a comparatively short period of time the Philippine assembly will be called and the necessity for competent, welltrained, and experienced translators will be much greater than it is now would of itself be sufficient to warrant my request. For a translator to be really valuable it is necessary that he have not only a broad academic education and a thorough knowledge of the two languages, but, more important still, that he shall have exercised the art of translating for a long period of years. The constant training that the men I ask for would experience between now and the time that their services will undoubtedly be required by the Philippine assembly is none too long; therefore I advocate that the division be increased as promptly as circumstances will admit.

These men can be secured here in Manila by transfer from other bureaus, with the exception of one who was formerly employed in the division, but who resigned from the service and is now in Europe. I believe that he will be able to return here within a period of two or three months.

An important part of the work done by the division is the reviewing of the Spanish and native press by Mr. Arguelles and one assistant. A daily report of the most important political articles published in Spanish and in the native dialects by the press of the archipelago is made to the governor-general, the executive secretary, the municipal board of the city of Manila, and the Philippines constabulary. During the past year 3,477 copies of dailies, weeklies, biweeklies, monthlies, and reviews published intermittently were read and reviewed. The reports submitted contained 3,463 folios and form a comprehensive and fairly complete review of all shades of political opinion as expressed by the native and Spanish papers, as well as of their criticisms, complaints, and recommendations relative to the work of the administration.

The amount of work performed by the division during the period covered by this report was as follows:

The amount of overtime performed by the employees of this division amounted to 322 days and some hours. Respectfully submitted.

R. D. FERGUSSON,

The EXECUTIVE SECRETARY.

APPENDIX F.

RECORDS DIVISION.

Chief of Translating Division.

MANILA, September 30, 1905.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report covering the work of the records division of this bureau for the year ending September 30, 1905:

The personnel of the division consists of 23 clerks and 10 messengers. Of these employees 10 are Americans, the balance being natives of these islands.

The nature of the work in this division is very exacting and requires a high degree of accuracy, since the work of the action clerks and others depends, to a large extent, upon the completeness and correctness of the records.

Considerable difficulty has been experienced at times in keeping the records straight, for the reason that some provincial and municipal officials write on more than one subject in one communication.

During the period covered by this report 30,941 communications have been received, 27,846 communications previously recorded have been received back for additional records, and 164,904 separate papers of all classes have been mailed or delivered by messengers, an increase over the same period for last year of nearly 10 per cent.

In this division is recorded the official correspondence of the governor-general, the four executive departments, and the executive bureau. All letters, cablegrams, and telegrams received and sent are thoroughly indexed on cards and recorded, a complete copy of each communication being made and carefully filed.

At the end of each year these index cards are revised and transcribed on typewritten sheets, which are bound in book form, thus affording an easy and ready reference to the records of that year.

An idea of the vastness and importance of this index and of the labor and care required in its preparation may be gained from the fact that the name index alone for 1904 contains not less than 2,353 typewritten pages.

The division has suffered greatly from casualties occurring in the service during the past year, especially among the American employees, not a few of whom, thoroughly trained and experienced in the routine of the division, have left the service. Its efficiency has been impaired accordingly. In trying to keep abreast with the great volume of work devolving upon the division it was found necessary to require of the employees a considerable amount of daily overtime work-in all, 1,677 days, representing the labor of 6 extra clerks had the work been confined to office hours only. During the greater part of the hot season the employees in this division were called upon to work seven hours each day, Saturdays and Sundays excepted, this being two hours per day in excess of the minimum number of hours of labor required by law for that period. However, this work has been willingly and cheerfully performed by all, testifying to some extent to the industry of the employees and the interest shown by them in the work of the division.

Since the rendition of the last annual report by my predecessor preparations have been made for the installation of permanent and substantial transfer files, capable of accommodating approximately 158,400 papers. The shelving has been completed, and 500 tin filing boxes, practically dust proof, have been received from the insular purchasing agent. While these transfer files are giving great satisfaction on the whole, the adoption of a heavier and more durable type of filing boxes is recommended in order to insure complete success.

Numerous calls have been made on the division to fill temporary vacancies among employees in the other divisions of this bureau.

The efficiency of the native clerks and typewriters in the division, both with regard to class and volume of work, and their ability to speak and read the English language, has increased to a very appreciable extent during the year.

Respectfully submitted.

The EXECUTIVE SECRETARY.

SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE DOCUMENT DIVISION TO THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY.

MANILA, P. I., September 30, 1905. SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the work of the document division of the executive bureau, embracing the property accountability of the entire bureau and the ayuntamiento building for the year ended September 30, 1905, with such recommendations as are deemed essential to the improvement of the service. In addition to receiving and distributing the publications of this and the Federal governments, the division has also the work of accounting for all the property pertaining to the bureau and the ayuntamiento building, the numbering, recording, and transmission of all requisitions for printing and binding on the public printer.

The following statement is in comparison to the business of previous years:

In the matter of publications, compared with previous reports, the foregoing statement shows a large decrease in the receipts and distributions. This is due principally to the omission to take into account the bills, proposed laws, resolutious, etc., of the Congress of the United States, to fewer enactments by the Commission, and to the reduction in print and final discontinuance of the quarterly volumes. The proposed legislation, bills, proposed laws, resolutions, etc., of the Congress of the United States, sent here through the Bureau of Insular Affairs, have been omitted in the accounts of the past year on account of the little interest and the vast amount of space they occupy.

The receipts from sales, as shown above, amount to more than that of any previous year. The increase is the direct result of the little advertising done some months ago in the Official Gazette, which was withdrawn for want of authority. I would earnestly recommend, in view of conditions hereinafter stated, that such a course be pursued, revising the list once every month, and that every publication, the cost price of which being 50 centavos or more, be listed and sold to the public.

DUPLICATIONS.

The attention of the Commission, through the executive secretary and the recorder of the Commission, last March was called to the inconsistency of the law in force regulating the distribution of the government's publications, under which there is a constant duplication in the distribution. Under certain written authority the public printer is distributing 17 copies of each pamphlet and volume printed-2 to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., and 15 to the chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs; the bureau of justice, of the opinions of the attorney-general, under Act No. 136, as amended by Act No. 523 and Executive order No. 80, series 1902, as amended by Executive order No. 16, series 1904, is distributing 30 copies-5 to the Library of Congress and 25 to the Bureau of Insular Affairs; and of the Philippine reports, under Act No. 136, as amended by Act No. 1291 and the above-mentioned Executive orders, 36 copies-10 to the Library of Congress and 26 to the Bureau of Insular Affairs; and this bureau, under the orders above mentioned, is sending to the Bureau of Insular Affairs for distribution from 1 to 50 copies of all publications, printed and not printed. It will, therefore, be seen that publications in general, many times costly and of no general interest, issue from two sources, namely, the bureau of justice or this bureau, and the bureau of printing, resulting in a duplication to the extent of 15 copies of each publication printed. As a remedy it would seem expedient if there could be but one depository, similar to that of the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., to receive and distribute all printed matter; the orders, circulars, bulletins, reports, etc., to the bureaus and offices in which they originate, retaining a sufficient quantity of each for file and for distribution, through the Bureau of Insular Affairs, to the libraries, bureaus, and offices of the Government at Washington. Publications of a general character, such as census reports, reports of the Philippine Commission,

etc., should be retained in the depository and from there distributed to the officials of the government, and to the public, as the interests of the government may be best served. In this respect an amendment of the law, it seems to me, would be in the interests of economy and good service.

CONDITIONS.

The division is seriously hampered in its work on account of the lack of proper shelving. Last July, in view of the vast amount of printed matter expected to arrive from Washington, an allowance out of the appropriation for contingent expenses of 2,000 was made to relieve the situation. This amount, upon completion of the shelving of the library and one room of the division, became exhausted, and no attempt since has been made to complete the work. The result is the loss through deterioration of many valuable books, and almost an impossibility on the part of the employees, on account of the crowded condition, to do the work demanded of them. I would recommend that a further allowance be made and the work brought to completion at the earliest practicable date.

THE LIBRARY.

The library of the executive bureau is now being installed around the corridors of the marble hall. When complete it will be divided into three sections-United States, Philippine, and foreign. The books of the first section, consisting of the documents and reports of the Congress of the United States, nearly complete from the Fifteenth Congress, are now nearly all in place. The second section, consisting of the books and manuscripts purchased by the collecting librarian for the insular government, the collection recently turned over by the Philippine exposition board, and all publications, beginning with the treaty of Paris, military and civil, since American occupation, together with those of the third or foreign section, are now being listed and will be placed in position as rapidly as my duties in the division will permit.

PERSONNEL.

The personnel of the division consists of 1 American and 6 Filipino employees, whose services, under most trying conditions, have been constant and faithful, deserving consideration.

Respectfully submitted.

The EXECUTIVE SECRETARY.

ARTHUR K. JONES,
Chief of the Division.

APPENDIX H.

ANNUAL REPORTS OF PROVINCIAL GOVERNORS.

REPORT OF THE GOVERNOR OF THE PROVINCE OF ALBAY.

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR,
ALBAY, P. I., July 1, 1905.

SIR: In accordance with the provisions of act No. 1044, I have the honor to submit the following annual report of conditions existing in the province of Albay during the fiscal year from July 1, 1904, to June 30, 1905.

The contents of this report appear under six general headings, with subheadings, as shown in the following table of contents:

1, Political. 2, Adminstrative. 3, Economic: Financial-taxation and revenue, currency, financial institutions, labor. 4, Commerce and transportation; roads. 5, Industrial: Agriculture, trade, fishery, manufactures. 6, Social and sociological.

RECOMMENDATIONS.

1. Construction of a railroad in province.

2. That American troops be always maintained at Camp Daraga.

3. That number of cedulas sold shall be made basis distribution to provinces internal-revenue receipts.