FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 37 



Travel orders issued for geological work during the year 1916. 



Mining legislation. — The interest in legislation concerning 

 mining continues, and it is hoped that a rational mining law will 

 be put in operation in the Philippine Islands by the present 

 legislature. 



Publications. — It is our intention to issue the Mineral Re- 

 sources of the Philippine Islands for a given year before March 

 1 of the year following. The issue for 1915 did not appear 

 until late in the year due to numerous delays. The contents 

 were as follows : 



