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CONGRESS. (THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.) 



excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual 

 punishment inflicted. 



" That the right to be secure against unreason- 

 able searches and seizures shall not be violated. 



" That neither slavery, nor involuntary servi- 

 tude, except as a punishment for crime whereof 

 the party shall have been duly convicted, shall 

 exist in said islands. 



"That no law shall be passed abridging the 

 freedom of speech or of the press, or the right 

 of the people peaceably to assemble and petition 

 the Government for redress of grievances. 



" That no law shall be made respecting an es- 

 tablishment of religion or prohibiting the free 

 . \crcise thereof, and that the free exercise and 

 enjoyment of religious profession and worship, 

 without discrimination or preference, shall for- 

 ever be allowed. 



" That no money shall be paid out of the treas- 

 ury except in pursuance of an appropriation by 

 law. 



" That the rule of taxation in said islands shall 

 be uniform. 



" That no private or local bill which may be 

 enacted into law shall embrace more than one 

 subject, and that subject shall be expressed in 

 the title of the bill. 



" That no warrant shall issue but upon prob- 

 able cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and 

 particularly describing the place to be searched 

 and the person or things to be seized. 



" That all money collected on any tax levied or 

 assessed for a special purpose shall be treated as 

 a special fund in the treasury and paid out for 

 such purpose only. 



" SEC. 6. That whenever the existing insurrec- 

 tion in the Philippine Islands shall have ceased 

 and a condition of general and complete peace 

 shall have been established therein and the fact 

 shall be certified to the President by the Philip- 

 pine Commission, the President, upon being sat- 

 isfied thereof, shall order a census of the Philip- 

 pine Islands to be taken by said Philippine Com- 

 mission; such census in its inquiries relating 

 to the population shall take and make so far 

 as practicable full report for all the inhabitants, 

 of name, age, sex, race, or tribe, whether native 

 or foreign born, literacy in Spanish, native dia- 

 lect or language, or in English, school attend- 

 ance, ownership of homes, industrial and social 

 statistics, and such other information separately 

 for each island, each province, and municipality, 

 or other civil division, as the President and said 

 commission may deem necessary: Provided, That 

 the President may, upon the request of said com- 

 mission, in his discretion, employ the service of 

 the Census Bureau in compiling and promulgat- 

 ing the statistical information above provided 

 for, and may commit to such bureau any part 

 or portion of such labor as to him may seem 

 wise. 



" SEC. 7. That two years after the completion 

 and publication of the census, in case such con- 

 dition of general and complete peace with rec- 

 ognition of the authority of the United States 

 shall have continued in the territory of said 

 islands not inhabited by Moros or other non- 

 Christian tribes and such facts shall have 

 been certified to the President by the Philip- 

 pine Commission, the President upon being sat- 

 isfied thereof shall direct said commission to 

 rail, and the commission shall call, a general 

 election for the choice of delegates to a popular 

 assembly of the people of said territory in the 

 Philippine Islands, which shall be known as the 

 Philippine Assembly. After said assembly shall 

 have convened and organized, all the legislative 



power heretofore conferred on the Philippine 

 Commission in all that part of said islands not 

 inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes 

 shall be vested in a legislature consisting of two 

 houses the Philippine Commission and the 

 Philippine Assembly. Said assembly shall con- 

 sist of not less than 50 nor more than 100 mem- 

 bers to be apportioned by said commission among 

 the provinces as nearly as practicable according 

 to population: Provided, That no province shall 

 have less than one member: And provided fur- 

 ther, That provinces entitled by population to 

 more than one member may be divided into such 

 convenient districts as the said commission may 

 deem best. 



" Public notice of such division shall be given 

 at least ninety days prior to such election, and 

 the election shall be held under rules and regula- 

 tions to be prescribed by law. The qualifica- 

 tion of electors in such election shall be the 

 same as is now provided by law in case of elect- 

 ors in municipal elections. The members of as- 

 sembly shall hold office for two years from the 

 1st day of January next following their elec- 

 tion, and their successors shall be chosen by the 

 people every second year thereafter. No person 

 shall be eligible to such election who is not a 

 qualified elector of the election district in which 

 he may be chosen, owing allegiance to the 

 United States, and twenty-five years of age. 



" The legislature shall hold annual sessions, 

 commencing on the first Monday of February in 

 each year and continuing not exceeding ninety 

 days thereafter (Sundays and holidays not in- 

 cluded) : Provided, That the first meeting of the 

 legislature shall be held upon the call of the 

 governor within ninety days after the first elec- 

 tion: And provided further, That if at the termi- 

 nation of any session the appropriations neces- 

 sary for the support of government shall not 

 have been made, an amount equal to the sums 

 appropriated in the last appropriation bills for 

 such purposes shall be deemed to be appropri- 

 ated; and until the legislature shall act in such 

 behalf the treasurer may, with the advice of the 

 governor, make the payments necessary for the 

 purposes aforesaid. 



" The legislature may be called in special ses- 

 sion at any time by the civil governor for gen- 

 eral legislation, or for action on such specific 

 subjects as he may designate. No special 

 sion shall continue longer than thirty days, 

 elusive of Sundays. 



" The assembly shall be the judge of the 

 tions, returns, and qualifications of its members. 

 A majority shall constitute a quorum to do busi- 

 ness, but a smaller number may adjourn from 

 day to day and may be authorized to compel the 

 attendance of absent members. It shall choose 

 its speaker and other officers, and the salaric- "t 

 its members and officers shall be fixed by law. 

 It may determine the rule of its proceedings 

 punish its members for disorderly behavior, ami 

 with the concurrence of two-thirds expel a nu in 

 ber. It shall keep a journal of its proceediiii:- 

 \\hich shall be published, and the yeas and nay- 

 of the members on any question shall, on tin 

 demand of one-fifth of those present, be entcm 

 on the journal. 



" SEC. 8. That at the same time with the first, 

 meeting of the Philippine legislature, and bicn 

 nially thereafter, there shall be chosen by sai. 

 legislature, each house voting separately, two 

 resident commissioners to the United State-, 

 who shall be entitled to an official recognition 

 as such by all departments upon presentation to 

 the President of a certificate of election by the 



