[No. 156.]


AN   ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
GOVERNMENT LABORATORIES FOR THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
By the authority of the President of the cUnited States, be it
enacted by the United States PhilipSpine Commz;nission, thatf.
SECTION i. A biological laboratory, a chemical laboratory
and laboratories for the production of vaccine virus and of
serums ancd prophylactics shall be established and maintained
by the Government of the Philippine Islands.
SEC. 2. The biological laboratory shall be situated at
Manila, and shall afford adequate facilities for investigation
into, and scientific report upon, the causes, pathology and
methods of diagnosing and combating the diseases of man
and of domesticated animals, and of animals utilized for food,
and of plants useful to man, as well as for such other biological
work as may be deemed necessary by the Board of Health for
the Philippine Islands, the Forestry Bureau, the Bureau of Agriculture or any other department or bureau of the government.
SEC. 3. The chemical laboratory shall be situated at
Manila, and shall afford adequate facilities for investigation
and report as to the purity of foods and drinks; as to the
composition and properties of gums, resins, drugs, herbs or
other plant products of known or supposed commercial value;
as to soils or fertilizers; as to the minerals and minero-medicinal
waters of the Philippine Islands; and for such other chemical
investigation as may be deemed necessary by the Board of
Health for the Philippine Islands, the Department of Public
Instruction, the Forestry Bureau, the Mining Bureau, the Bureau of Agriculture, the Customs Service, or any other department or bureau of the government.
SEC. 4. Laboratories for the production of vaccine virus
and of serums and prophylactics shall be established and maintained at Manila and at such other points in the Archipelago as
the Board of Health for the Philippine Islands may advise and
the central legislative body of the Islands may determine upon.




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SEC. 5. There shall be a Superintendent of Government
Laboratories, at a salary of four thousand dollars ($4,ooo)
per year. He shall have charge of the construction and
equipment of all government laboratories for the Philippine
Islands, and of the purchase of all apparatus, supplies and
books which may be authorized for use in connection with such
laboratories. He shall cause to be prepared and shall recommend
to the central legislative body of the Islands as a basis for
appropriation:
(a) Plans for a suitable building for the installation of
the biological laboratory, the chemical laboratory and a reference
library;
(b) Plans for such laboratories for the manufacture of
vaccine virus, serums and prophylactics as may hereafter be
authorized;
(c) Detailed estimates of the cost of constructing such
laboratory buildings;
(d) Detailed estimates of the cost of properly equipping
the several laboratories and of procuring an adequate reference
library, which shall be housed in the same building with the
biological and chemical laboratories.
SEc. 6. The Superintendent of Government Laboratories
shall make a written report to the chief executive of the
Insular Government on or before the 3oth of June of each
year, covering his work for the twelve months preceding that
date, and shall include therein a statement of all moneys
received and disbursements made during that period.
SEC. 7. (a) The Superintendent of Government Laboratories shall be the Director of either the biological or the chemical
laboratory, as the Commission shall determine, and the other
laboratory shall be under the supervision of a Director, who
shall receive an annual salary of three thousand, five hundred
dollars ($3,500). The two Directors shall be experts in their
respective lines of work, and shall personally carry on original
investigations.
(b) They shall appoint all employees of their respective
laboratories, subject to the provisions of the Civil Service Act
and of Act 25, shall prescribe their duties and shall assign to




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all persons carrying  on investigations in their respective
laboratories the necessary laboratory space, apparatus, appliances
and reagents.
SEC. 8. All biological and chemical laboratory work of
the several departments and bureaus of the Government at
Manila shall be carried on in the biological and chemical
laboratories by their Directors and employees, or by employees
of said departments and bureaus. Upon the request of the head
of any department or bureau of the government, the Director
of the biological or chemical laboratory shall make adequate
provision for the carrying out of any special investigation desired
and duly authorized, either himself undertaking to have it
made by the laboratory staff or allowing properly qualified
employees of the department or bureau making the request to
carry it out under his general supervision, as the head of such
department or bureau may prefer.
SEC. 9. The Superintendent of Government Laboratories
and the additional Director provided for in section 6 shall be
appointed by the Commission.   The officers and employees
of the laboratories for the manufacture of vaccine virus, serums
and prophylactics shall be appointed by the Commissioner of
Public Health, subject to the provisions of the Civil Service
Act and of Act 25.
SEC. Io. The officers or employees in immediate charge of
the laboratories for the manufacture of vaccine virus, serums
and prophylactics shall furnish the Superintendent of Government Laboratories from time to time with detailed lists of the
apparatus and supplies which are necessary for the adequate
equipment and maintenance of their respective laboratories.
SEC. Ii. This act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, July I, I90I.