very responsive at all times and took an intelligent interest in all the work. In a less degree the same can be said of classes B and C.

The only real disappointment was with class D. The step from grade D to C was too great. I think that in their recommendations to the division superintendent some of the American teachers made assignments to class D from the basis of the work in the class D of the previous year, ignoring the fact that the standard of class D pupils of the year before had risen considerably. So new students were entered who were much below this standard. The result of course was natural. This did not happen in classes B and C for the reason that, with few exceptions, there were no new students in these classes.

During the session there were few absences and but four cases of tardiness.

Too much can not be said in praise of the teachers' meetings that were held. The teachers gained very much from these discussions.

Last but not least was the active interest and attention to duty of the American teaching staff.

I respectfully submit the above report.

P. F. KING, Principal.

Report of provincial school, July 12, 1904.

The provincial school is held at present in the building formerly occupied by the Hospital de San Juan de Dios. This building was considerably injured during and after the war. It has, however, been cleaned, repaired, and repainted inside by the provincial board so that it makes a very suitable schoolhouse. We shall have shortly available seven recitation rooms, a special room equipped with tables for the class in science, and an assembly room to be used also as a study hall, for which the board is providing seats.

A course of study has been planned and is being followed. It is based on the suggestive course sent out by the general superintendent, but is more advanced. It includes mathematics through plane geometry; three years of Spanish; three years of Latin; four years in history; five years of English; four years of science (botany, geology, physics, chemistry, physical geography. Physiology is completed before the high school course is begun). No Greek is offered. The work in English includes composition and rhetoric and, during the last three years of the course, will be read the list of classical works recommended for entrance to college in the United States.

The school is divided into two departments: The high school and the intermediate school. Two classes are pursuing the work of the first two years of the high school course. There are four classes in the intermediate department. The fourth year of the intermediate will this year complete geography (text book: Natural Advanced Geography), arithmetic (text book: Milne's Standard Arithmetic), a course in elementary grammar and composition, physiology, and a brief preliminary course in botany.

The first year of the intermediate begins geography, is reviewing the four fundamental operations in arithmetic, is reading Arnold's Second Reader with work in conversation, very elementary grammar and composition and has simple work in nature study and physiology. All classes in the school study music and drawing.

Following is a detailed statement of the number in each class in school:

The following figures show the growth of the school since its beginning in June, 1902:

Enrollment.

Boys.

Girls.

Total.

Second year..

First year...

Fifty-five new pupils have been admitted this term. Thirty-five pupils of last year have not yet returned. As the majority will return, the enrollment will then be more than 200. The number of girls now attending is smaller than last year. This seems to be due to the unwillingness of the parents to allow them to be away from home unless they are in the care of some relative or friend of the family. This difficulty could be probably obviated by the establishment of a girls' dormitory, which would be in charge of a teacher.

The list of attendance by towns shows that the school draws well from the towns at this end of the province with the exception of Bacoor, Cavite-Viejo, and Santa Cruz.

Bacoor has been a town hostile to the American primary school, and as the primary school is the feeder of the secondary school our quota from there is small. Cavite-Viejo has not had an American teacher during the past school year. This might partially explain the small representation.

From the southern part of the province the representation is small on account of the distance, but all the towns of importance have pupils in the school except Naic, Alfonso, and Magallanes.

Carpenters..

Mechanics...

Occupations of parents.

26

15

5

21

2

1

1

5

14

37

Laborers..

Doctors, teachers, jueces de paz, etc.

Storekeepers, traders, etc...
Farmers...

27

It is worth while to consider how far the provincial school attains at present the American ideal of a popular school--i. e., one which draws from all classes of the people. As the children in the barrios have not had the opportunity till now to a great extent to attend school, the most of our pupils come from the poblacion.

From the occupation of their parents it is seen that most of them are men either of education or property. About one-fifth of the pupils come from the families of doctors, teachers, or officials of a municipality, all of whom have been educated in Spanish schools. These certainly belong to the best class of Filipinos. Storekeepers, farmers, and fishermen furnish more than one-half of the pupils. These are men of property, who may or may not have received a Spanish education. Judging from the fact that the great majority of pupils in the school know no Spanish, it would seem to be a new class which is forcing itself up by virtue of its money, but which did not receive much opportunity for education under the Spanish system.

About one-sixth describe their fathers as carpenters, mechanics, or laborers. These seem to be a class lower still in the social system. But of the lower classes we have few

or none.

On the whole the school it attended by people belonging to the upper and middle classes. The accessibility of Manila, with its big, well-advertised schools, helps to keep down our enrollment, as wealthy parents believe, perhaps rightly, that their children will receive greater opportunities there, particularly in the Liceo de Manila and the Ateneo Municipal. Twenty-five pupils take woodwork and mechanical drawing in addition to the common branches.

The prejudice against manual labor is not so great here, and the course will be successful if the parents and pupils come to see that it will open the way to a "carrera." They do not see much advantage in going to school to become a simple carpenter, however.

There will be 21 candidates eligible for the scholarship examination for the United States next March. Twenty other pupils will be excluded by the age limit.

Twenty-five others would be eligible to try the examination except in United States history, but the most of them would also be excluded by the age limit.

SYDNEY K. MITCHELL, Principal.

C.-Number of convictions by the court of first instance of Cavite for offenses detailed below during the fiscal year ending June 39, 1904.

Number of acquittals by the court of first instance of Cavite during the fiscal year ending June

Abduction..

Bandolerismo..

Murder..

Homicide.

Insurrection.

Robbery.

Theft..

30, 1904.

4

119

7

2

1

2

2

2

3

1

1

3

1

5

13

188

Number of cases dismissed by the court of first instance of Cavite during the fiscal year ending

Estafa..

Injuries..

Violation of the municipal code..

Deliberate and willful delay in the administration of justice.

Gambling..

Libel...

Total..

D.

28121152

1,52

HEADQUARTERS PHILIPPINES CONSTABULARY,
DIVISION OF INFORMATION,
Imus (Cavite), P. I., July 17, 1904.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of this subdivision from September 1, 1903, to May 25, 1904.

Captures made.-Three hundred and fifty-nine persons charged with different crimes, 141 sentenced, 98 acquitted; 130 carabaos, 15 ponies, 32 revolvers, 1 terserola, 6 rifles, 3,831 ammunitions, 3 poniards.

Returned to owners on proving ownership.-Seven carabaos.

Turned over to provincial supervisor of Cavite, P. I.-One hundred and twenty-three carabaos, 15 ponies.

ALFONSO (CAVITE), P. I., July 27, 1904.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of this subdivision from May 27, to July 15, 1904:

Captures made. Twenty-nine persons charged with different crimes, 24 waiting trial, 5 sentenced; 24 carabaos, 1 pony, 1 revolver, 2 bolos, 1 poniard.

Returned to owners on proving ownership.-Twenty-one carabaos.

Turned over to municipal treasurer.-Two carabaos, 1 cow, 1 pony.

SAN FRANCISCO DE MALABON (CAVITE), P. I., July 26, 1904.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of this subdivision from March 4 to July 15, 1904:

Captures made. Sixty-four persons charged with different crimes, 52 waiting trial, 12 acquitted; 23 male and female carabaos, 2 guns, 7 revolvers, 2 bolos, 4 ponies. Returned to owners on proving ownership. Eight carabaos, 2 ponies.

Turned over to provincial supervisor of Cavite, P. I.-Fifteen carabaos, 2 ponies.

Capt. WINFIELd S. Grove,

Superintendent Division of Information, P. C., Manila, P. I.

OFFICE OF THE Governor, PROVINCE OF CAVITE,
Cavite, September 26, 1904.

SIR: In compliance with Act No. 1044, Philippine Commission, and your circular letter referring to the same, I have the honor to state, in the way of a brief supplemental report,

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that the season for the rice crop has been very favorable and the amount of ground under cultivation has been greatly increased. The rice crop is now in fine shape and the prospect is for a yield larger than for several years past.

There has been a large increase in the ground under hemp cultivation. Within a short time hemp will be the leading industry of the province and will fully replace in value the coffee crop, which has been destroyed by the blight. There is a considerable increase in the sugar acreage this year, especially around the barrios of Buenavista and Palauit in the jurisdiction of San Francisco de Malabon, and Paliparan in the jurisdiction of Imus. There is much fine sugar land in the province and with a little encouragement in the way of tariff reduction sugar would soon become again the principal industry of the province.

Of the former ladron leaders, neither Felizardo nor Montalon has given trouble in the province during the past six months and there has been very little ladron activity. The province has been more quiet than at any time since I have known it. The hard rains have done a great amount of damage to the roads and seems to me to indicate clearly the necesity for supplementary action of some kind to enable the provincial supervisor to keep the roads in any sort of condition.

Very respectfully,

D. C. SHANKS, Governor Province of Cavite.

Honorable EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT,

Manila, P. I.

REPORT OF THE GOVERNOR OF THE PROVINCE OF CEBÚ.
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, PROVINCE OF CEBU,
Cebu, September 13, 1904.

SIR: I have the honor to send you herewith my annual report which, in accordance with the provisions of a recent enactment relative to its submission, I have made to embrace the period between the 1st of January, 1903, and June 30, 1904. I regret my inability to have sent it in time, due to the fact that I but recently returned to this province toward the end of last July, and that it was impossible for me to take up the work until a few days after on account of peremptory and urgent business connected with my taking possession of this office for the second time.

Owing to the lack of time and to the deficiencies of the personnel of my office, whose time was taken up with other matters, I have been unable to enlarge upon the data and information, specially that which refers to the industry and agriculture of this province contained in this report.

For the sake of clearness and convenience I have thought it advisable to draft this report so as to deal separately with each subject.

In spite of its many defects, I trust that it will merit your approval as the product of my desire to comply with a duty.

POLITICAL ADMINISTRATION.

CENSUS OF THE PROVINCE.

The census of this province was taken in compliance with a law promulgated for that purpose, and work thereon was started on March 2, 1903, and finished about the end of April.

The results of the enumeration show 653,727 inhabitants, distributed amongst 57 municipalities and 725 barrios.

The following were employed in this work: One district inspector, 57 special agents, 28 special enumerators, and 517 district enumerators.

From the above figures it can be seen that this district gave the greatest amount of work to the inspector, who was obliged to supervise the labors of a great number of enumerators.

Nothing remarkable occurred during the taking of the census except some slight difficulty which was encountered in the enumeration of the districts which include the Pardo and Guadalupe mountains, owing to a few marauding bands of pulajanes at that time lurking in that region.

It was also necessary to use persuasion in order to overcome the misgivings of the rural population, who suspected that the purpose of the census was the creation of new taxes.

REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF MUNICIPALITIES.

As a measure of economy the following 16 municipalities were annexed to others: Mabolo, Pardo, Consolación, Compostela, Sogod, Alcoy, Nueva Caceres, Santander, San Sebastian, Alcantara, Ronda, Santa Fé, Madridejos, Cordoba, Santa Rosa, and Poro.