VIII. D, 3 Salt: Carriedo y Peredo 207 



were urgently needed, and the aqueduct required enlargement. 

 It was determined, consequently, to use well and river water 

 for street sprinkling,''" and, by a process of consolidation, to 

 reduce the cost of management.''' The failure of the concern 

 to pay its way was undoubtedly due to poor business manage- 

 ment and the long-existent dislike of the city officials to subject 

 their accounts to audit. '•- 



Between 1895 and 1897, the troubles due to the insurrectionary 

 movement and the lack of available funds seriously affected the 

 work of distribution. The enlargement of reservoirs by the 

 construction of a new deposito, at a cost of 170,000 pesos to 

 hold 40,000 cubic meters, was proposed and agreed to, but 

 never carried out.''^ Two more pumps were procured through 

 the agency of the colonial office from Mirlees, Watson, and 

 Jardine of Glasgow, who had installed the original engines, 

 but were not set up until after the arrival of the American 

 forces in 1898,'"' and work on the aqueducts was suspended 

 by the events of the same year."' The growth in consumption, 

 which was 1,000,000 meters in 1886 and 3,500,000 meters in 

 1902, called for these developments, and the city declared its 

 intention of finding a new source of supply and establishing 



'"Ibid. (July 24, 1894). Cf. Ibid. (April 25, 1889); Expediente sobre 

 establecimiento del rie^o en los paseos y calzadas de esta capital con agua 

 del canal de Carriedo (Sept. 21, 1886). 



"' Actas de Carriedo (Jan. 23, 1895). 



"'Ibid. (June 15, 1892). Cf. Incidente promovido por el tribunal de 

 cuentas pidiendo se presenten las cuentas de los fondos de la obra pia 

 de Carriedo. (A series of letters from June 22, 1871, to August 30, 1876.) 

 Incidente promovido por la Tesoreria General de Cuentas (1876). A 

 statement of the accounts for 1855 was not secured until January 2, 1874. 



'■•Actas de Carriedo (Oct. 20, 1893). 



''* Dieck, R. P., Water supply of the city of Manila (manusci-ipt), 4; 

 Actas de Carriedo (Oct. 17, 1892) ; (Aug. 14, 1886) ; Presupuesto de las 

 obras que se necesitan ejecutar en Santolan (Nov. 10, 1898). 



"° Documentos de varias obras de ampliacion de Acueducto de Carriedo. 

 (The contract was let on June 22, 1896, to Francisco Martinez for 

 39,970.50 pesos. Work was commenced on February 28, 1897, and was to 

 be finished by August 28, 1898.) The Spanish authorities did not pay the 

 liabilities incurred in these improvements, nor their coal bill, and by the 

 decision of the Supi-eme Court of the United States that the city of Ma^ 

 nila as constituted in 1910 is liable for the obligations of the city incurred 

 prior to the cession of the Philippines to the United States, the balance of 

 the Carriedo fund, consisting, when the functions of the Spanish "Ayunta- 

 miento" were taken over on August 13, 1898, of 18,000 pesos in securities, 

 was absorbed. Esperanza Trigas Otero et al. v. City of Manila. Ricardo 

 Aguado V. City of Manila. Cf. U. S. Supreme Court. October term 

 (1910), No. 207; Acts of the Philippine Commission (1901), chl. 68-75; 

 Philippine Reports (1903-1912), 9, 513-526, Cases 3282, 3449, 3558, 3703. 



