viii. D. 3 Salt: Carriedo ij Percdo 201 



and El Comercio, gave special essay and deportment prizes to 

 the children in the schools.'' ' 



On August 8, the final touch was given to the ceremonies by 

 a solemn requiem mass in the cathedral, at which the sermon 

 was preached by Francisco Sanchez y Luna.'^* 



The permanent memorials were a stone in the City Hall and 

 the Carriedo fountain. The proposal for a monument fell 

 through, ostensibly owing to disagreement as to the site, actually 

 because of general unwillingness to be taxed for the purpose, 

 especially as the total cost of the celebration had already exceeded 

 the original estimate of 16,000 pesos by 3,630.75 pesos, notwith- 

 standing the fact that all the wood had been supplied by Mariano 

 Ocampo.'^-' 



Fortunately, the opening of the system anticipated and, in 

 some measure, alleviated the cholera epidemic which broke out 

 during the next month, and raged with great intensity in the 

 early part of 1883, as water, more or less fresh, could now be 

 obtained from the public hydrants. The regulations for private 

 service were not drawn up until a later date. Palacios was at 

 work on them in 1884, but they were not passed by the municipal 

 board until December 4, or printed until 1885, and even at the 

 latter date the necessary material for house connections had not 

 arrived from Europe, and had to be provided by the conces- 

 sionnaires.'*" The regulations of 1885 diflfered in this respect 

 from those of 1899, and were also affected by the existence, at 

 first, of two methods of supply, either by a pipe giving a uniform 

 amount every twenty-four hours, or by a meter, instead of by 

 the general meter service adopted under the direction of William 

 D. Conner, first lieutenant, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., the 

 first American engineer in charge of sewers and water supply.'" 



In 1912 the Division of Sewers and Waterworks Construction 

 was separated from the Department of Engineering and Public 

 Works, and is now administered as a separate department. 

 During the Spanish regime, considerably more license was 



'*'Actas de Carriedo (March 8, March 11, Dec. 6, 1888); Actas de Ma- 

 nila (1878), 65. 



^**Ibid. (1882), 104-106; Actas de Carriedo (April 15, July 29, 1885). 



"'Ibid. (Feb. 6, 1883). 



"'Ibid. (April 19, April 29, Oct. 24, 1884) ; Gaceta de Manila (Nov. 12, 

 1884) ; Actas de Manila (1884), 191. In 1886, a complaint was raised that 

 too much attention was being paid to private service. 



"' Regulations for the public and private services of the Carriedo water- 

 works of the city of Manila (1889). — Reglamentos para el uso publico, 

 gratuito y a domicilio privado, mediante distribucion de las aguas potables 

 del canal de Carriedo. Manila (1885). 



