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the treatment of infantile beriberi. The work is of great 

 practical importance. A stock has been continually kept on 

 hand, and up to the close of the year 200 liters of extract have 

 been prepared, probably sufficient to treat 3,500 infants, as 

 compared with 58 liters of extract prepared in 1914. Slightly 

 less than one half of the funds appropriated by Act No, 2376 

 has been expended. 



MAINTENANCE OF STAFF 



Continued agitation with regard to the Bureau of Science has 

 made it impossible to hold out inducements to new or assurances 

 to old employees, has influenced some of the best of our oldest 

 and most experienced men to resign when other opportunities 

 for employment offered, and has made it difficult to secure new 

 employees of ability. Unless a fixed policy is adopted with re- 

 spect to the Bureau of Science, it will be impossible to maintain 

 a service with its former efficiency. 



REPORT OF ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE 



In accordance with Assembly Resolution No. 108, dated 

 November 9, 1915, a Special Committee of five members was 

 appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly to investigate and make 

 recommendations before January 1, 1916, concerning "the utility 

 and desirability of uniting the branches of the Government which 

 have to do with agriculture in order to avoid unnecessary dupli- 

 cation of work, to abolish unnecessary expenditures and to co- 

 ordinate and increase the efficiency of the work." Extracts from 

 the report of the committee thus appointed follow : 



The members of the Committee have made every possible investigation 

 tending to cast any light on the business intrusted to them. They have 

 visited all the offices in any way affected by the Resolution and have con- 

 ferred with all the chiefs of the respective bureaus. They have cited 

 witnesses, heard their declarations, and obliged them to state their opinions, 

 having held public sessions on the 19th and 23d of November and the 4th 

 of December of this year. Various documents referring to the matter 

 have been consulted in the files of the Executive Secretary's office. The 

 Committee even made several trips, one to Los Baiios, where the College 

 of Agriculture is, one to Limay, Bataan, where there is a Forest Station, 

 and finally to Lamao, in the same province, where there is an Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. 



We here wish to express our satisfaction with the cordial and valuable 

 cooperation granted us by every one of the bureaus interested in the 

 matter and to put on record our appreciation of their aid. 



It is the opinion of your committee that much of the confusion and 

 divergence of opinion which has existed in the past in reference to the 

 general subject under consideration here have been due to the lack of a 

 clear and definite understanding of the various forms of agricultural 

 activity which should be carried on by the Government and of just where 



