, Bontoc, Concepcion:
Each under a Captain:--
Ten Districts @ P1,980 19,800 00

Cagayan (Mindanao)--Biling, Nueva Vizcaya, Sasangani
(Palauan)
Each under a Captain:--
Five Districts @ P1,792 8,960 00

Siassi, Bongao, Tatoan
Each under a Captain:--
Three Districts @ P2,032 6,096 00
Escalante, [102] under a Lieutenant 1,525 00

Masbate, under a Cavalry Sub-Lieutenant 1,450 00

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS UNDER NAVAL OFFICERS, OFFICERS IN CHARGE OF
NAVAL STATIONS AS EX-OFFICIO GOVERNORS

Corregidor 3,821 00
Balabac 3,960 00
Isabela de Basilan 5,276 66
Palauan (Puerta Princesa) 6,910 00

Total cost of General Government of the Islands 500,677 96

Deduct--
Officers' Pay, etc., included in Army Estimates P145,179 96
Officers' Pay, etc., included in Navy Estimates 14,640 00

159,819 96

P340,858 00

The Spanish Government intended, in due course, to establish
Civil Government throughout the Islands. A Civil Governor was the
representative of the Gov.-General, whose orders and decrees he had to
publish and execute at his own discretion. He could not absent himself
from his province without permission. He had to maintain order, veto
petitions for arms' licences, hold under his orders and dispose of the
Civil Guard, Carabineers, and local guards. He could suspend the pay
for ten days of any subordinate official who failed to do his duty,
or he could temporarily suspend him in his functions with justifiable
cause, and propose to the Gov.-General his definite removal. He had to
preside at all municipal elections; to bring delinquents to justice;
to decree the detention on suspicion of any individual, and place him
at the disposal of the chief judge within three days after his capture;
to dictate orders for the government of the towns and villages; to
explain to the petty-governors the true interpretation of the law
and regulations affecting their districts.

The Governor was chief of police, and could impose fines up to P50
without the intervention of judicial authority; and in the event of the
mulcted person being unable to pay, he could order his imprisonment
at the rate of one day's de