name to be placed upon the list, or stricken therefrom, as the facts warrant. The board of inspectors shall have the same powers to subpoena witnesses and compel their attendance and testimony as are now possessed by justices of the peace under the Code of Čivil Procedure, but the fees of such witnesses and for service of process shall be paid in advance by the party in whose behalf they are subpænæd. All such questions shall be heard and decided without delay. On the determination of the question the board shall, if requested, issue to either party a brief certificate and statement of its action in the matter and of the evidence upon which such action is based. Either party thereto, or any person who has been refused registration, may thereupon apply to the provincial board of the province, or to the judge of the Court of First Instance of the judicial district, or to any judge assigned to duty therein, for an order directing said board of inspectors to take the action deemed proper, and said board or judge is hereby given jurisdiction in the premises. Such application shall be made by filing with said provincial board, or with said judge, as the case may be, a copy of the certificate and statement aforesaid, together with proof of service of a notice of such application upon a member of the board of inspectors, which notice shall state the time and place and tribunal to which such application will be made: Provided, however, That after the fourth day of registration and not later than ten days before the Saturday next before election any qualified elector in the precinct, upon giving the notice herein prescribed and upon serving copies thereof upon the persons affected, if they can be found, may apply to such judge or provincial board for an order striking from the list the names of any person or persons claimed to be erroneously or wrongfully registered. The decision of the judge, if any there be, shall be controlling in any such matter, notwithstanding any decision of the provincial board to the contrary. Such application may be accompanied by affidavits in support thereof; but copies of all such affidavits shall be served upon the board of inspectors or party in interest with the notice of application and may be rebutted by affidavits to be filed by the board of inspectors or the opposing party. Upon such applications the board of inspectors may be represented by the provincial fiscal, or it may delegate one of its members to appear upon the hearing, and in that case the necessary traveling expenses of such member, not to exceed the amount allowed the provincial officials in that province, shall be paid by the municipality. During the absence of such inspector the poll clerk shall sit with the board for the purpose of preparing the list of the absent inspector. At the meeting of the board on the Saturday preceding election it shall be the duty of each inspector to make in the registry list opposite the name of each person added to or stricken off the list a note of the date of the order and of the name of the tribunal which issued it. No name shall be added to or stricken from the list at the last meeting except in pursuance of such orders: Provided, That the order of the judge of First Instance taking jurisdiction of the matter shall be final and controlling." SEC. 5. The third paragraph of section twenty-four of said Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two is hereby amended by striking out the words "provincial board" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "provincial treasurer." SEC. 6. The eighth paragraph of section twenty-nine of said Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two is hereby amended to read as follows: "No person holding any appointive or elective public office or employment within ninety days of any general election or within sixty days of any special election shall, except for reëlection to the position which he may be holding, offer himself as a candidate for election, or be eligible to hold any elective public office or employment to be filled at such general or special election: Provided, That the foregoing provisions shall not apply to the general election to be held in November, nineteen hundred and seven, for the purposes of which election no person who has held any appointive or elective public office or employment within thirty days prior thereto shall, except for reëlection to the position which he may be holding, offer himself as a candidate for election, or be eligible to hold any elective public office or employment to be filled at such general election. No judge of the Court of First Instance, justice of the peace, provincial fiscal, or officer or employee of the Bureau of Constabulary or of the Bureau of Education shall aid any candidate or influence in any manner or take any part in any municipal, provincial, or Assembly election. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deprived of his office or employment and shall be disqualified to hold any public office or employment whatever for a term of five years: Provided, however, That the foregoing provisions shall not be construed to deprive any person otherwise qualified of the right to vote at any election." SEC. 7. Section thirty of said Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two is hereby amended by adding, between the sixth and seventh paragraphs thereof, a new paragraph to read as follows: "Any person who, being a candidate for election as Delegate to the Philippine Assembly, provincial governor, or third member of a provincial board, shall make the certificate as to candidacy prescribed in section twelve of this Act, as amended, and in said certificate shall declare himself to be a resident or a duly qualified elector of any Assembly district or of any province, as the case may be, when he is not a resident or duly qualified elector of such district or province, as the case may be, or any person who, in said certificate as to candidacy, shall declare himself to be eligible to hold the office for which he is a candidate when he is ineligible to hold the same, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than three months nor more than three years, in the discretion of the court." SEC. 8. The eleventh paragraph of section thirty of said Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two is hereby amended to read as follows: "Any person having custody of any official ballot or ballots who shall deliver any ballot to any other person not then and there duly authorized by law to receive it, or any person who prints or distributes, or causes to be printed or distributed, a ballot at an election, except as hereinbefore provided, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than two hundred pesos nor more than five hundred pesos, or both, in the discretion of the court." SEC. 9. 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. SEC. 10. This Act shall take effect on September fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven. Enacted, August 31, 1907. [No. 1710.] AN ACT Providing for the filing, with the divsion of archives, patents, copyrights and trade-marks of the Executive Bureau, of the first mortgage and contract of guaranty, dated May first, nineteen hundred and seven, executed by the Philippine Railway Company with the Government of the Philippine Islands and the Bankers' Trust Company, trustee, creating and fixing upon the property covered by said instrument a lien at and from the time of filing the same, and exempting said instrument from the payment of stamp taxes. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The first mortgage and contract of guaranty, dated May first, nineteen hundred and seven, executed by the Philippine Railway Company with the Government of the Philippine Islands and the Bankers' Trust Company, trustee, shall become a lien upon all of the property covered by the said instrument at and from the time the said instrument shall have been filed with the division of archives, patents, copyrights, and trade-marks of the Executive Bureau, which said lien shall be prior to and take precedence of any and all liens and incumbrances which may thereafter arise against the said property, except such liens as arise from the imposition of lawful taxes, fines, and assessments upon the same; and any subsequent conveyance of the said property, or any part thereof, or any interest therein, shall be subject to the aforesaid lien. SEC. 2. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed as depriving the grantees or beneficiaries under said instrument of any right or lien in connection therewith which exists by law independent of this Act. SEC. 3. The chief of the division of archives, patents, copyrights, and trade-marks of the Executive Bureau shall, upon the filing of the instrument provided for in this Act, indorse thereon the date and hour when the same was filed, with his official signature thereto, and the said indorsement shall be prima facie evidence of the date and hour when the instrument was filed for record. SEC. 4. The said instrument shall be preserved and indexed in the same manner as the papers and documents of corporations filed with the division of archives, patents, copyrights, and trademarks under the provisions of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifty-nine and amendments thereto. SEC. 5. The chief of the division of archives, patents, copyrights, and trade-marks shall collect for the filing of the instrument provided for in this Act the sum of twenty-five pesos. SEC. 6. The said instrument is hereby exempted from the payment of the stamp taxes provided by section one hundred and sixteen of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-nine, as amended. SEC. 7. A copy of the said instrument, certified by the chief of the division of archives, patents, copyrights, and trade-marks of the Executive Bureau, shall be of and have the same legal effect as the original. SEC. 8. 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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1711.] AN ACT Providing for the apprehension, detention, segregation, and treatment of lepers in the Philippine Islands. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The Director of Health and his authorized agents are hereby empowered to cause to be apprehended, and detained, isolated, segregated, or confined, all leprous persons in the Philippine Islands, and upon application of the Director of Health it shall be the duty of every Insular, provincial, or municipal official having police powers to cause to be arrested and delivered to the Director of Health, or his agents, any person alleged or believed to be a leper, and it shall be the duty of such officers to assist in the conveyance of any person so arrested to such place as the Director of Health or his agents may require, in order that such person may be subject to medical inspection, and such other procedure as may be necessary to establish a diagnosis, and thereafter to assist in removing such person to a place for detention, treatment, isolation, or segregation, if so required by the Director of Health or his agents: Provided, That all protests and petitions shall be given careful consideration and if the diagnosis is questioned, no person shall be permanently removed to Culion leper colony, or other place of segregation or detention, until the diagnosis of leprosy has been confirmed by bacteriological methods. Whenever the detention, treatment, isolation, or segregation of leprous persons shall involve the security of property and money belonging to or held by said leprous persons, the provincial treasurer, or such person as he may designate, shall act as guardian pending the appointment of a guardian by the Court of First Instance having jurisdiction in the province in which such person resides. SEC. 2. Whoever shall knowingly detain or harbor on premises subject to his control, or shall in any manner conceal or secrete, or assist in concealing or secreting, any person afflicted with leprosy, with the intent that such person be not discovered or delivered to the Director of Health or his agents, or who shall support or assist in supporting any leper living in concealment, shall, upon conviction, be punished as hereinafter provided. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of every police officer or other peace officer having reason to believe that any person within his district is afflicted with leprosy to report the fact forthwith to the district. health officer of the district in which the case occurs. Any police officer or other peace officer who shall willfully fail to comply with the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be punished as hereinafter provided. SEC. 4. The Director of Health is authorized to cause to be established hospitals and detention camps at such places as may be necessary, and where such hospitals and detention camps are established he may order the treatment of leprous patients in the incipient stage in order to attempt a cure, and he may discharge such patients as he shall deem cured or free from leprosy, and send to a place of segregation and isolation all such patients as shall be considered by him. incurable or capable of spreading the disease of leprosy. The Director of Health may permit any duly qualified and reputable physician to engage in the treatment of lepers or any person supposed to have leprosy: Provided, That such treatment shall be under the conditions and regulations prescribed by the Director of Health. The Director of Health or his agents may require from patients such reasonable amount of labor as may be recommended by the attending physician and the Director of Health may further make and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem advisable for the amelioration of the condition of lepers. SEC. 5. Voluntary helpers or friends living with lepers segregated under orders by the Director of Health or his agents shall be under the control of the Director of Health for a reasonable time and may be isolated from those free from the disease. SEC. 6. Any person violating any section, or part thereof, of this Act shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not to exceed two hundred pesos, or imprisonment for not to exceed six months, or both, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 7. 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 precedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 8. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1712.] AN ACT To increase the number of municipalities in the province of La Laguna from twenty-two to twenty-three, by separating from Luisiana the former municipality of Cavinti and giving to it the territory which it comprised prior to the passage of Act Numbered Nine hundred and thirty-nine. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The twenty-two municipalities of the Province of La Laguna, as established by Act Numbered Nine hundred and thirtynine, as amended by Acts Numbered One thousand and eight, Twelve hundred and forty, Thirteen hundred and eight, Fifteen hundred and fifty-three, and Sixteen hundred and ninety, shall, in accordance |