The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-05
QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS
Hitter ATES BARRED UNLESS
THEY OWN PROPERTY OR
PAY TAXES
UNDER CIVIL SERVICE ACT
Annual Report of the Board Re-
ceived From Manila Describes
working of the Law
i'm the islands.

WASHINGTON. April 4.-Copies of two
important acts of the Philippine commis-
sion. providing for the organization Of
the municipal and provincial govern
ments in the archipelago, have been re-
ceiVed at the war department. The act
for the organization of municipal govern
ments does not apply to the city of
Manila nor to the settlements of nom
christian tribes for which special legis-
latiOn is to he enacted. But all pueblos
shall be recognized as municipal corpora
tions. adhere to their former names, and
continue to hold all property rights
vested under their former organization.
The government proper Of each pueblo is
vested in q president, vice president,
and a municipal council, to be chosen at
large by qualified electors for q term OF
two years from and after the first Mon
day in January next, after the election.
The councillors elected iE 1901 will di-
vide themselves into two classes the
first set vacating their seats on the first
Monday in January, 1902, and the second
set one year after their successors have
been chosen and qualified, so that one
half of the council will be chosen annA>
ally municipalities will be divided into
four classes: those containing not less
than % 900 nhabitants to have eighteen
councillors; those containing 1S,000 and
less than 25,00l inhabitants to have four
teen councillors; those containing 10,000
and less than 1900 inhabitants to have
ten councillors and those containing less
than 10,OT inhabitants to have eight
councillors
QUALIFIED VOTERS.
The qualification Of electors authors
lied to choose the officers of the
municipal government are that they
shall be male persons over twenty-three
years of age, and must have a legal resi-
dence in the municipality in which they
exercise the right Of suffrage for per,
iod Of six months preceding the elec-
tion. and must not be citizens or sfIo-
jects of any foreign powers. They, too,
must be a member of one of the follow
ing three classes:
Those. who. prior to the 18th of Aug
ust, 1893, held the Office OF municipal
captain, gobernadiorcilo, alcalde, or
member OF any ayuntamiento; those vino
own real property to the value of 500
pesos, or who pay annually thirty pesos
of more of the established taxes; ana
those who speak, read or write English
or Spanish
Those disqualified from voting include
delinquent taxpayers Of taxes levied since
August 13, 1885, insane or feeble-minded
persons; those who violated the oath Of
allegiance to the United States; those
who on or after the 1st of April were in
arms against the sovereignty of the
United States and those who in any way
aid or promote the insurrection.
The municipal officers in no case shall
be ecclesiastics or soldiers in active
service.
The officers of each provincial govern
ment are to be a provincial governor
secretary, treasurer, supervisor and fiscal
The provisional governors shall be select
cd by a convention composed Of the c1un-
cilors Of ali the municipals included in
the province. The four other officers
of the provincial government Shall be
appointed by the commission to hold Of
flee during it's pleasure. With the eX-
ception of the provisional fiscal, after
March 1, 1902, they shall be selected under
the provisions of the civil service act.
CIVIL SERVICE RULES.
The first annual report of the Philip
pine civil service board was received here
today. 1t says the civil service act pass
ed before the organization of the board
is so explicit that many important ques-
tions which otherwise would have arisen
In the preparation of the rules were
solved by the passage of the act. The
act makes disloyalty to the United States
as the supreme authority of the islands