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thereupon it assumes the obligation of 

 advising the nearest of kin of such em- 

 ploye of all particulars relating to the 

 death, the conditions under which the 

 remains may be returned, and finally, 

 after complying with the legal require- 

 ments as to proofs of heirship, the ab- 

 solute transmission of the estate, if any, 

 is made. This grows out of the fact 

 that under Philippine legislation the 

 treasurer of the Philippine Islands be- 

 comes the administrator of the estates 

 of all Philippine employes within cer- 

 tain limits, and this Bureau is his in- 

 strumentality in this country. 



EDUCATION OF FILIPINO YOUTHS IN 

 THE UNITED STATES 



The question of the bringing to the 

 United States of Filipinos for education 

 in this country has long been the subject 

 of much discussion and correspondence 

 both by the Philippine government 

 and by this Bureau. Last summer the 

 Philippine Commission passed an act to 

 carry into effect the policy which had 

 been decided upon, with a proviso that 

 upon the return of such students they 

 enter the civil service of the islands. 

 There are at the present time in the 

 United States ninety-eight Filipinos to 

 be educated as authorized by this act. 

 All arrangements for their reception and 

 transportation to southern California 

 were made before their arrival in the 

 United States. They are now placed in 

 the first grammar, high schools, and 

 colleges in that section to avoid the 

 rigorous climate of the East during their 

 first winter. 



This work is by the act of the Philip- 

 pine Commission under the special 

 supervision of the Bureau of Insular 

 Affairs, and the expenditures in the 

 United States in connection with this 

 work are payable out of funds in the 

 custody of the disbursing agent of Phil- 

 ippine revenues stationed in this Bureau. 

 The agent who accompanied these stu- 

 dents to the United States has in the 



last few days made his first quarterly 

 report as required by the Philippine act 

 under which he is serving. I believe it 

 would interest you to quote his conclu- 

 sion of this report : 



' ' In conclusion, it is especially desired 

 to call the attention of the educational 

 authorities of the Philippine Islands to 

 the necessity, in the selection of students 

 to be sent to America, for exercising the 

 greatest care. The standard raised by 

 those who have already come to America 

 should be upheld. The exceedingly 

 favorable impression created by the 

 members of the first expedition, without 

 exception, should not be impaired. The 

 Filipino students now here are cited 

 continually by parents and by teachers 

 to their young American associates as 

 models of gentleness, thoughtful polite- 

 ness, studiousness, and of seriousness of 

 purpose. Right here I desire to say 

 that no other class of Filipinos whom I 

 have known have in any degree com- 

 pared with the Filipino students sent to 

 America in their appreciation and grati- 

 tude for the benefits conferred upon 

 them, for the forbearance and patience 

 shown them, and the opportunities 

 offered them for progress by the gov- 

 ernment. I have reports from their 

 teachers and housekeepers at every 

 place that the danger is not that they 

 will study too little, but that they will 

 study too much. They were uniformly 

 successful in the examinations held by 

 their schools just prior to the holidays, 

 despite their late entrance to the schools 

 and the short time that they have been 

 studying their texts in English. They 

 are all working with splendid serious- 

 ness for the accomplishment of the lofty- 

 purposes for which they are in this 

 country, and I only ask that as good 

 material be furnished in the future ; that 

 not one young man or young woman in 

 whom the fullest confidence may not be 

 placed, and whose fitness, mental and 

 physical, is not of the very highest order, 

 be sent by the government for education 



