EXHIBIT F.-Total receipts and expenditures fiscal year ending June 30, 1900-Cont'd. First half of fiscal year 1900 Second half of fiscal year 1900, compared with second half of fiscal year 1899.... 6, 222, 806. 31 1 First interior port was opened January 6, 1900; number now in operation, 72. EXPENDITURES COMPARED WITH RECEIPTS. 36.62 54. 12 1This includes expenses of the collector of the islands for supplies for all the ports, expenses of the interior ports, whose only receipts are for the sale of internal-revenue stamps, and are turned in to the collector of internal revenue of the islands. EXHIBIT G.-Comparative yearly statement, receipts and expenditures of customs and navigation, Manila, P. I. 1 No records of exports of year 1896. The amounts are given in Mexican currency. No comparison of expenditures compared with receipts under the Spanish régime with those under American régime can be made, as under the former three-fourths of all receipts from fines, seizures, and confiscations were paid to customs officials, making up the larger portions of their salaries. Under American régime all receipts from said sources are turned into the Treasury. See Article I, Appendix I, Ordinance for custom-house impost in the Philippine islands. EXHIBIT H.-Abstract of gold and silver coin imported and exported from date of American occupation to August 13, 1900. No record was kept of importations of gold and silver coin until July 1, 1899. The silver imported and exported was reduced to United States currency at the rate given by the Quartermaster's Department at the time the reduction was made. EXHIBIT I.-Statement of receipts and expenditures, Manila, P. I., for fiscal year ending June 30, 1900. 1 No record of harbor dues was kept during 1899; the amount is included in import and export dues. EXHIBIT I.-Statement of receipts and expenditures, Manila, P. I., for fiscal year ending June 30, 1900—Continued. EXPENDITURE AND DISPOSITION OF FUNDS RECEIVED BY CUSTOM-HOUSE. EXHIBIT J.-Consolidated statement of receipts and expenditures of customs for Manila, Iloilo, Cebu, Jolo, Zamboanga, and Srassi, P. I. EXHIBIT J.-Consolidated statement of receipts and expenditures of customs for Manila, Iloilo, Cebu, Jolo, Zamboanga, and Siassi, P. I.-Continued. All amounts given are in Mexican currency. The following reports have not been received to date and are not included in this statement. Cebu, month of June; Siassi, months of January and June; Zamboanga, months of March, April, May, and June. APPENDIX E E. Proceedings of the board of officers to revise the United States customs tariff and regulations in the Philippine Islands, convened at Manila, P. I., June 18, 1900, by General Orders, No. 80, office of the United States military governor in the Philippines, dated Manila, P. I., June 9, 1900. MANILA, P. I., August 25, 1900. Proceedings of the board of officers to revise the United States customs tariff and regulations in the Philippine Islands, convened at Manila, P. I., June 18, 1900, pursuant to the following order: GENERAL ORDERS, OFFICE U. S. MILITARY GOVERNOR IN THE PHILIPPINES, Manila, Philippine Islands, June 9, 1900. No. 80. By direction of the War Department a board of officers to revise the United States provisional customs tariff and regulations in the Philippine Islands will convene at Manila, P. I., at 10 o'clock on Monday, June 18, 1900, or as soon thereafter as practicable. Detail for the board.-Lieut. Col. W. F. Spurgin, Sixteenth U. S. Infantry; Capt. W. W. Wotherspoon, Twelfth U. S. Infantry; Capt. Charles H. Marple, Fortieth Infantry, U. S. V. The collector of customs of the islands and the collectors of the various ports of entry will furnish to said board, upon its request, all data, statistics, and information which may be required by them in the performance of the duty enjoined. Further instructions from the War Department will be hereafter communicated to the board. By command of Major-General MacArthur: E. H. CROWDER, Lieutenant-Colonel Thirty-ninth Infantry, U. S. V., Secretary. Pursuant to the foregoing order the board convened at 10 a. m. June 18, 1900, at the office of the collector of customs of the chief port of the islands. Present: Lieut. Col. W. F. Spurgin, Sixteenth U. S. Infantry; Capt. Charles H. Marple, Fortieth Infantry, U. S. V. Absent: Capt. W. W. Wotherspoon, who remained at Iloilo in obedience to telegraphic order from the military governor postponing his departure therefrom until further orders. The board being informed by the secretary to the military governor that telegraphic advices had been received from the War Department, dated Washington, D. C., June 8, 1900, to the effect that instructions would be sent therefrom that would govern in the work of revision, deemed it advisable to await arrival of these before entering upon the active work of such, and after the preliminaries of organization, adjourned to meet at the call of the president when these should have been received. Before such adjournment the recorder was instructed to notify, in writing, the three chambers of commerce in Manila, the American, Manila, and Spanish chambers, respectively, of the appointment of the board and its purpose and to request of these bodies, and through them the merchants comprising them, that the board be favored |