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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bowker, John Harrison

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​BOWKER. (Commander, 1845. f-p., 20; h-p., 24.)
John Harrison Bowker entered the Navy, in May, 1803, as a Volunteer, on board the Culloden 74, Capt. Harrington Dacres, flag-ship afterwards of Sir Edw. Pellew on the East India station; previously to proceeding whither he appears, on 2 Sept. 1803, to have assisted in chasing the French 74-gun ship Duguay Trouin and 40-gun frigate Guerrière into Corunna. In Sept. 1807, after a servitude of two years as Midshipman in the Duncan, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart, and Beldone, Capt. John Bastard, both in the East Indies, Mr. Bowker was discharged; but he re-embarked, in Nov. 1809, on board the Amethyst 36, Capt. Jacob Walton, and continued to serve in that ship on the Home station, until wrecked in Plymouth Sound, 16 Feb. 1811. He was subsequently, until the receipt of his first commission, bearing date 7 Feb. 1815, employed in the Mediterranean and West Indies, latterly as Acting-Lieutenant, on board the Undaunted 38, Capt. Rich. Thomas, Euryalus 36, Capt. Chas. Napier, Stromboli bomb, Capt. John Stoddart, Euryalus again, Capt. C. Napier, Venerable 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Philip Chas. Durham, and Columbine 16, Capt. Rich. Henry Muddle. While in the Undaunted we find him engaged in co-operating with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia, and also in blockading the port of Toulon. On 28 July, 1815, being at the time Senior Lieutenant of the Fairy sloop, Capt. Henry Loraine Baker, he was detached in command of the boats to cut out a convoy at St. François, Guadeloupe, in the execution of which service, however, he was desperately wounded by a musketball passing through the right lobe of the lungs. He invalided in consequence immediately afterwards; and, on 23 Jan. 1817, was awarded a pension of 91l. 5s. His subsequent appointments were – 21 April, 1821, and 26 March, 1823, to the Northumberland 74, Capt. Thos. Harvey, and Brisk sloop, Capts. Edw. Stewart and Adolphus FitzClarence, both employed at Sheerness – 1 Jan. 1824, to the Tribune frigate, Capt. Gardiner Henry Gnion, stationed in the Mediterranean – 4 Feb. 1825, to the Windsor Castle 74, Capts. Hugh Downman and Edw. Durnford King, lying at Plymouth, where he was placed on half-pay in 1826 – and, 31 Aug. 1840, to the command of the Savage 10, in which vessel he served in the Mediterranean until the close of 1844. He attained his present rank 17 Jan. 1845; and has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boyce, Frederick Agar

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​BOYCE. (Lieutenant, 1845.)
Frederick Agar Boyce entered the Navy in 1833; passed his examination 11 July, 1840; and served for nearly four years, as Mate, on the North America and West India station, in the Winchester 52, and Illustrious 72, flag-ships of Sir Thos. Harvey and Sir Chas. Adam. He obtained his commission 1 Sept. 1845, and has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bowlby, George Henry

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​BOWLBY. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 1 1; h-p., 30.)
George Henry Bowlby entered the Navy, 31 May, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ganges 74, Capts. Peter Halkett and Thos. Dundas; attended, with the former, the expedition to Copenhagen under Lord Gambler, in Aug. 1807; served, afterwards, at the blockade of the Tagus and in the Scheldt; attained the rating of Midshipman in Jan. 1808; and, in April, 1811, removed to the Andromache 38, Capt. Geo. Tobin. In that ship he was present, as Master’s Mate, at the siege of St. Sebastian, in Sept. 1813, and on its surrender he escorted the French garrison to England. He also participated, on 23 of the following month, in the capture of La Trave frigate, of 44 guns and 321 men, after a brave and close-fought action of 15 minutes; and, in March, 1814, was with the force under Rear-Admiral Chas. Vinicombe Penrose at the memorable passage of the Gironde. After a brief intermediate attachment to the Porcupine 22, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Penrose, and Reynard 10, Capt. David St. Clair, Mr. Bowlby was advanced to his present rank 27 May, 1814. His next appointments were – 23 Sept. ensuing, to the Woodlark 10, Capt. Wm. Cutfield, employed in the Channel and Mediterranean – and, 5 Jan. 1816, to the Malta 84, Capts. Chas. Ogle and Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, lying at Plymouth, from which ship, after having been detached to the West Indies in the Trave troop-ship, Capt. John Codd, he was paid off 28 Feb. 1817. He has not since been afloat.
Lieut. Bowlby married, 29 June, 1844, Caroline, youngest daughter of the late Henry Salvin, Esq., of Durham.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Bowyer, William Bohun

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​BOWYER. (Capt., 1830. f-p., 25; h-p., 19.)
William Bohun Bowyer was born 1 Aug. 1789.
This officer entered the Navy, 9 May, 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Mercury 28, Capt. Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, on the Jersey station, where he attained the rating of Midshipman 12 July following, and was often in action with the French flotilla. Removing, next, into the Aeolus 32, Capt. Lord Wm. FitzRoy, he was present at the capture, by the force under Sir Rich. John Strachan, of the four French ships of the line which had escaped from the battle of Trafalgar, 4 Nov. 1805; and, on joining the Ramillies 74, Capts. Fras. Pickmore and Robt. Yarker, he witnessed, as we are informed. Sir John Borlase Warren’s capture of the Marengo of 80 guns, with the French Admiral Linois on board, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule, 13 March, 1806; besides sharing in the reduction, in Dec. 1807, of the Danish West India islands of St. Thomas and Santa Croix. In Oct. 1808, Mr. Bowyer was transferred, as Master’s Mate, to the Venus 32, Capt. Jas. Coutts Crawford, one of the two frigates employed at the siege of Vigo, subsequently to the surrender of which place, 27 March, 1809, he was sent with some Spanish gun-boats to assist in destroying the bridge of St. Payo, in order to obstruct the advance of the French army to its relief. On 26 June, 1809, he became an Acting, and, on 4 May, 1810, a confirmed Lieutenant, of the Norge 74, Capt. John Spratt Rainier, attached to the squadron at the defence of Cadiz, where, in 1810-11, being detached on boat service, he was very efficiently engaged against the enemy’s gun-vessels and otherwise. Lieut. Bowyer’s succeeding appointments were – 9 April, 1811, to the Thais 18, Capt. Edw. Scobell, on the coast of Africa, whence his health obliged him to invalid in Feb. 1812 – 20 June following, to the Aquilon 32, Capt. Wm. Bowles, on the Baltic and Brazilian stations – 15 April, 1814, to the Ceres 32, commanded by the same officer – 30 May, 1815, to the Queen Charlotte 100, Capt. Chas. Inglis, fitting for the Mediterranean – and, 3 Oct. following, to the Amphion 32, Capt. W. Bowles, which frigate he left in April, 1816, previous to her departure for South America. From 14 Feb. 1817, until April, 1828, he was next employed as an Inspecting-Commander in the Coast Guard, for his services in which capacity he obtained a second promotal commission, 15 Jan. 1823, and was also advanced to Post-rank, out of the Despatch of 18 guns, 17 Feb. 1830. Since that period Capt. Bowyer has been on half-pay.
He married, 25 May, 1819, Frances, daughter of the late Capt. Beck of the Hon. E.I.C. Service.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Boyack, Alexander

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​BOYACK. (Lieut., 1804. f-p., 19; h-p., 33.)
Alexander Boyack entered the Navy, 18 April, 1795, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ambuscade 82, Capt. Geo. Duff, attached to the fleet in the North Sea; served, from March, 1796, to Sept. 1801, (in June of which year he passed his examination,) as Midshipman, under the same officer and Capt. John Talbot, in the Glenmore 36, employed on the former and Irish stations; and then proceeded with Capt. Duff, in the Vengeance 74, to the West Indies, where Rear-Admiral John Thos. Duckworth promoted him, from the Leviathan 74, to be Acting-Lieutenant of the Theseus 74, Capt. John Bligh, 23 June, 1802. After participating in the chase of Le Duquesne 74, and Oiseau schooner (both ultimately captured) – in the cutting out also of from 12 to 15 merchant vessels at Jeremie and Aux Cayes, St. Domingo – and in the reduction of Port Dauphin, where Fort Labouque was silenced, the guns brought off, and La Sagesse, of 28 guns, taken, Mr. Boyack was detached, in command of a prize schooner, Les Deux Amis, with orders to “sink, burn, and destroy” everything hostile that fell in his way. Before, however, he had captured more than one vessel, he was sent home with prisoners in charge of the Mars transport, where, soon after his arrival, he received, 3 May, 1804, an Admiralty commission appointing him to the Warrior 74, Capt. Wm. Bligh, engaged in blockading the Rochefort squadron. He next, on 6 March, 1805, joined the Prospero bomb, Capt. Jones, employed in watching the Boulogne flotilla, but was removed on 21 May following to the command of the Dove cutter, in which, on 5 Aug. in the same year, he had the misfortune to be captured, while on his passage to Malta, by La Gloire French frigate. He remained in painful captivity from that ​period until the general exchange in 1814; since which period he has not been employed.
# Act No. 1365 (Philippine Commission)

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Source: Annual Reports of the War Department for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1905. Vol. 14. Washington. Government Printing Office. 1905. p. 134.
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[No. 1365.]
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. There is hereby prescribed and adopted the arms and a Great Seal of the Government of the Philippine Islands, of the designs hereinafter described:
Arms: Paleways of thirteen pieces, argent and gules; a chief azure; overall the arms of Manila, per fess gules and azure, in chief the castle of Spain or, doors and windows azure, in base a sea-lion, argent langued and armed gules, in dexter paw a sword hilted or. Crest: The American eagle displayed proper. Beneath, a scroll with the words "Philippine Islands" inscribed thereon.
Sec. 2. The Great Seal shall be circular in form, with the arms as described in section one, but without the scroll and the inscription thereon, and surrounding the whole a double marginal circle within which shall appear the words "Government of the Philippine Islands," "United States of America," the two phrases being divided by two small five-pointed stars.
Sec. 3. The Great Seal shall be and remain in the custody of the Executive Secretary, and shall be affixed to or placed upon all commissions signed by the Governor-General, and upon such other official documents and papers of the Government of the Philippine Islands as may by law be provided, and as may be required by custom in the discretion of the Governor-General.
Sec. 4. For the purpose of affixing or placing the Great Seal, as provided in section three of this Act, the colors of the arms shall not be considered an essential part thereof, and an impression from the engraved seal, according to the design hereinbefore described, on any commission or other official document or paper, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, whether such colors or a representation of such colors be employed or not.
Sec. 5. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Sec. 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, July 3, 1905.
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# Act No. 1

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United States Philippine Commission
[ Act No. 1 ]
AN ACT APPROPRIATING TWO MILLION DOLLARS ($2,000,000.00) MEXICAN TO BE USED IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

### SECTION 1.

The sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000.00) Mexican is hereby appropriated out of any money in the insular treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to be expended in the immediate construction and repair of highways and bridges in the Philippine Islands.

### SEC. 2.

The sum so appropriated shall be expended under the direction of the military governor in the construction and repair of such highways and bridges as in his judgment may be most conducive to the public welfare.

### SEC. 3.

The insular treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the warrants of the military governor for the sum so appropriated.

### SEC. 4.

Enacted, September 12, 1900.
# Act No. 1308

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United States Philippine Commission
[ Act No. 1308 ]
AN ACT providing for the return of the former municipality of Muntinlupa from the Province of La Laguna to the Province of Rizal, repealing paragraph (e) of section one and sections two and three of Act Numbered One thousand and eight, and changing the name of the municipality of Pateros, of the Province of Rizal to Taguig.

### SECTION 1.

Paragraph (e) of section one and sections two and three of Act Numbered One thousand and eight, providing for the transfer of the former municipality of Muntinlupa, Province of Rizal, to the Province of La Laguna, to form a part of the municipality of Biñang, are hereby repealed, and the territory comprised in said former municipality of Muintinlupa is hereby included in the Province of Rizal and shall constitute a part of the municipality of Taguig, of the Province of Rizal, as provided by section two hereof.

### SEC. 2.

The name of the municipality of Pateros in the Province of Rizal, as constituted by Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-two, is hereby changed to Taguig, and said municipality shall consist of the former municipalities of taking Pateros, and Muntinlupa, with the seat of the municipal government at the former municipality of Taguig.

### SEC. 3.

The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of “An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws,” passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

### SEC. 4.

This Act shall take effect on its passage.
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# Administrative Code of 1987/Book IV/Title IV/Chapter 3

Source: Supplement to the Official Gazette. Vol. 83, No. 38. Manila. National Printing Office. 1987. pp. 92–93.
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Chapter 3—Department Services
Sec. 10. Planning and Monitoring Service.—The Planning and Monitoring Service shall be responsible for the formulation and integration of plans and programs, emanating from all units of the Department, including the Bureaus, Regional Offices and Attached Agencies. It shall also be responsible for data analysis and monitoring of the implementation of said plans and programs through its management information system.
Sec. 11. Computer Service.—The Computer Service shall be responsible for the development and maintenance of the electronic data processing requirements of the Department.
Sec. 12. Financial and Management Service.—The Financial and Management Service shall provide services relating to budgeting, accounting, and management.
Sec. 13. Administrative Service.—The Administrative Service shall be responsible for providing personnel, records, information, training and other general services.
Sec. 14. Legal Service.—The Legal Service shall handle the legal requirements including those pertaining to the quasi-judicial and regulatory functions of the Department Proper and its Bureaus.
Sec. 15. Agri-business Investment Information Service.—The Agri-business Investment Information Service shall conduct research, gather and collate data related to agri-business such as laws and regulations, taxation, production technologies, market strategies, competition, foreign assistance, grants, credit, and new venture considerations relating to agri-business and shall package information on agri-business investment opportunities and provide sample feasibility studies for different agricultural products and markets.
Sec. 16. Marketing Assistance Service.—The Marketing Assistance Service shall be responsible for identifying markets for Philippine agricultural products and shall assist in the planning of market centers, marketing channels, and distribution networks.
Sec. 17. Department Services Head.—Each of the Services of the Department shall be headed by a Staff Director.
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# Administrative Code of 1987/Book IV/Title IX

Source: Supplement to the Official Gazette. Vol. 83, No. 38. Manila. National Printing Office. 1987. pp. 151–163.
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Title IX—HEALTH
* Chapter 1—General Provisions
* Chapter 2—Department Proper
* Chapter 3—Department Services
* Chapter 4—Offices and Bureaus
* Chapter 5—Field Offices
* Chapter 6—Attached Agencies
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stevenson, James

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​STEVENSON. (Rear-Admiral, 1846. f-p., 23; h-p., 41.)
James Stevenson entered the Navy, in 1783, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Bonetta sloop, Capt. Rich. Goodwin Keats, stationed on the coast of North America; where he continued employed until Nov. 1789, part of the time as Midshipman, in the Assistance, flag-ship of Sir Chas. Douglas, Hermione 32, Capt. Stone, Resource, Capt. Paul Minchin, Brisk, Capt. Edw. Buller, and Thisbe 28, Capt. Sam. Hood. He served next with the officer last mentioned in the Channel and West Indies, from May, 1790, until April, 1792, in the Juno 32; and in Aug. 1796 he joined the Centurion 50, Capt. Sam. Osborne, in the East Indies; on which station ​he was nominated, 3 Dec. following and 22 Sept. 1797, Acting-Lieutenant of the Victorious 74, Capts. Wm. Clark and Pulteney Malcolm. In the latter ship, to which he was confirmed 11 June, 1798, he assisted at the blockade of Mangalore. He returned to England in Aug. 1803; obtained, in 1804, an appointment in the Sea Fencibles at Dundee; acquired the rank of Commander 22 Jan. 1806; and from 25 Sept. following until the receipt of his Post-commission, bearing date 27 Feb. 1812, was employed (with the exception of an interval of two months in the summer of 1808) in the Gannet 16, on various parts of the Baltic, Mediterranean, and Home stations. He made prize, during that period, of two privateers, and accompanied the expeditions to Copenhagen and the Walcheren. He accepted his present rank 1 Oct. 1846.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Stewart, Keith

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​STEWART. (Captain, 1842. f-p., 14; h-p., 6.)
The Honourable Keith Stewart, born 3 Jan. 1814, is second son (by Jane, second daughter of Henry, first Earl of Uxbridge, and sister of the Marquess of Anglesey, K.G., G.C.B.) of George, eighth Earl of Galloway, K.T., Admiral of the Blue; brother of the present peer; brother-in-law of the Duke of Marlborough and of Lord Feversham; nephew of the late Lieut.-General Hon. Wm. Stewart, G.C.B., and the late Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Jas. Henry Keith Stewart, C.B.; and grand-nephew of Admiral Hon. Keith Stewart, who died 5 May, 1795, and of the first Marquis of Stafford, the fourth Earl of Aboyne, the ninth Duke of Hamilton, and the fifth Earl of Dunmore. He is first-cousin of the Right Hon. Sir Jas. Robt. Geo. Graham, Bart., M.P., formerly First Lord of the Admiralty, and late Secretary of State for the Home Department.
This officer entered the Navy 3 April, 1827 fought in the Asia 84, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Codrington, at the battle of Navarin; obtained his first commission 13 June, 1833; was nominated, 17 Aug. following, Supernumerary-Lieutenant of his former ship, the Asia, then bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker at Lisbon; served, from 11 Oct. in the same year until Dec. 1835, in the Stag 46, Capt. Nicholas Lockyer, on the coast of Portugal; and was next, 15 Feb. 1837, appointed to the Cornwallis 74, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Chas. Paget on the North America and West India station, where he was made Commander, 14 Oct. 1838, into the Ringdove 16. He paid that vessel off at the close of 1841, and was advanced to his present rank 1 July, 1842.
Capt. Stewart married, in 1841, at Prince Edward’s Island, Mary Caroline, only daughter of his Excellency Lieut.-Colonel Sir Chas. Augustus FitzRoy, K.C.H., grand-niece of George Henry, fourth Duke of Grafton, and niece of Charles, fourth Duke of Richmond. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.