s. 616
Administration of justice. Provincial Courts. Justices of
the peace. 618

_Chapter_ XXXI

_Trade and Agriculture Since the American Advent_

Trade in war-time. After-effect of war on trade and
agriculture. 620
Losses in tilth-cattle. The Congressional Relief Fund. 621
Fruitless endeavours to replace the lost buffalo herds. 622
Government supplies rice to the needy. Planters'
embarrassments. 623
Agitation for an Agricultural Bank. Bureau of Agriculture. 624
Land-tax. Manila Port Works. The Southern ports. 626
Need of roads. Railway projects. 627
The carrying-trade. The Shipping Law. Revenue and
Expenditure. 628
The Internal Revenue Law. Enormous increase in cost of
living. 630
"The Democratic Labour Union." The Chinese Exclusion Act. 632
Social position of the Chinese in the Islands since 1898. 634
The new Philippine currency (_Peso Conant_). 635
American Banks. The commercial policy of the future. 637
Trade Statistics. Total Import and Export values. Hemp
shipments. 639
Total Chief Exports. Total Sugar Export. 640
Tobacco, Cigar, and Coprah shipments. Values of Coprah and
Cocoanut-oil. 644
Sapan-wood, Gum Mastic, and Coffee shipments. 646
Gold and Silver Imports and Exports. Tonnage. Exchange. 647
Proportionate table of Total Exports. 648
Proportionate table of Total Imports. 649
Proportionate table of Staple Exports and Rice Imports. 650

_Chronological Table of Leading Events_. 651

_Index_. 655

List of Illustrations

_The Author_ _Frontispiece_
_Taal Volcano_ _Facing_ 16
_Mavon Volcano_ 16
_Effect of the Hurricane of September 26, 1905_ 23
_A Negrito Family_ 120
_An Igorrote Type (Luzon)_ 128
_A Pagan Type (Mindanao)_ 128
_A Tagalog Girl_ 128
_Moro Weapons_ 132
_A Scene in the Moro Country_ 148
_Zamboanga Fortress ("Fuerza del Pilar")_ 148
_A Visayan Girl_ 164
_A Tagalog Girl_ 164
_A Visayan Planter_ 172
_A Chinese Half-caste_ 172
_A Tagalog Milkwoman_ 182
_A Tagalog Townsman_ 182
_Middle-class Tagalog Natives_ 196
_A Spanish-Mexican Ga