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N almost every kind of literary work he touched, Tolstoy succeeded at once in reaching the foremost rank.

When he sent his first story, "Childhood," anonymously to the poet Nekrásov, editor of The Contemporary (then the leading Petersburg magazine), the latter promptly accepted and published it; Dostoyévsky was so struck by it that he wrote from Siberia to inquire who its talented author was; Turgénev sang its praises; and Panáev was so delighted with it that his friends, it was said, had to avoid him on the Névsky lest he should insist on reading them extracts from it.

When Tolstoy turned from stories to novels he achieved the same immediate and complete success. The appearance of the first instalment of "War and Peace" sufficed to place him abreast of the world's greatest writers of fiction.

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 diameter of the earth is only 7927 miles, while that of Uranus is 32,000 miles. There is also as great a difference in the nature of these two worlds.

Uranus travels through space in an orbit at an average distance of 1,771,000,000 miles from the sun, encompassing the orbits of Saturn, Jupiter, the Planetoids, Mars, Earth, Venus and Mercury; an orbit so large that it takes the planet 84 years to complete its journey around the sun. It has only been a year and a half, according to time figured on Uranus, since Herschel first introduced this planet to earth-dwellers.

Although the year of Uranus is 84 of our years long, which causes long and remarkable seasons, its day is very short, for the planet turns so rapidly on its axis that it sees both day and night in 10 hours and 50 minutes. Even the few hours of daylight it enjoys are not very bright ones, or warm ones either, for the planet is so far from the sun (which appears as an intense point of light), that it receives only th as much light and heat as we do on earth.

The axis of Uranus is tipped 98 degrees from the perpendicular which causes not only extreme but peculiar seasonal changes. Since the axis of the planet is always pointing in the same direction and at one place in its 84-year journey points almost directly at the sun, each pole in turn is bathed in 42 years of dim daylight and then, when on the other side of the orbit, sleeps through a night that is just as long. Bürgel remarks that "an inhabitant born at the beginning of winter and dying at the age of forty, would never see daylight, or the sun, but live in everlasting darkness like the pit-ponies in coal mines. The contrary would be the case with the summer-born, who would know of night and the stars only from hearsay." Quite different from what life might enjoy on Jupiter, for Jupiter's axis is inclined only 3 degrees from the perpendicular and its year would be almost a perpetual spring.

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 tween Cape Verde and the Gambia; an exclusion from there of all other traders, and an exemption from all customs; and in addition to these enterprises it entered into a contract with the King of France to provide him with 2,000 negroes per annum for his West Indian Islands, and as many more as he might require for use in the galleys. Shortly after this the Compagnie d'Afrique expired in bankruptcy, compounding with its creditors at the rate of 5s. in the £, which I presume was paid mainly out of the 1,010,000 livres for which it sold its claim to its successors. The successors were a little difficult to find at first, for there seems to have been what one might call distaste for West African commercial enterprise among the French public just then. However, a company was got together to buy up its rights, accept its responsibilities and carry on business in 1681.

In the matter of the company that succeeded the d'Afrique, confusion is added to catastrophe, owing to the then Minister of State, M. Seignelay, for some private end, having divided up the funds and created two separate companies,—one to have the trade from Cape Blanco and the Gambia—the Compagnie du Senegal; the other to hold the rest of the Guinea trade to the Cape of Good Hope, the Compagnie du Guinea. This arrangement, of course, left the Senegal Company with all the responsibility of the compagnie d'Afrique, and without sufficient funds to deal with them; and the Compagnie du Senegal complained, when, in 1694, it found its affairs in much confusion, throwing the blame on the Government; but, says Astley, "the great are seldom without excuses for what they do," and the

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 The Malay Rice Cycle.

In Kedah there is a phrase běrtému kop for the 'completion of a cycle of years.' It is pretty certain that kop is derived through the Siamese kab from the Pali kappa, which in turn is the Sanskrit kalpa. It is used by Hindus and Buddhists to express an aeon during which the physical universe is destroyed. In Malay, it is applied to a cycle of a few years, generally to the 12 year eyele of the rice pawang, the years of which are designated by animal names. The cycle is common to Siamese, Cambodians, Chinese and Japanese. But both the word kop and the Malay names for the animals are from the Siamese and not from the Cambodian. The Cambodian form is kalba = kalpa, and the Cambodian words for the animals are more remote from the Malay words, while the Siamese words are almost identical:—

The cycle is not known to the Mons.

This settles the problem discussed by Mr. Shaw on p. 7. of his paper on 'Rice Planting.' The linguistic evidence proves conclusively that the cycle was borrowed directly from the Siamese, who in turn may have borrowed from the Cambodians.


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6 biography, and his "Confession" immediately took rank beside those of St. Augustine and Rousseau.

When he propounded his interpretation of Christ's teaching, his works produced a profound impression, and, though they were prohibited in Russia, found a large circulation abroad besides a surreptitious one at home.

Next he took to writing short, simple stories for the people, and the very first of these, "What Men live by" (v. "Twenty-three Tales"), circulated by hundreds of thousands of copies in Russia, was translated into all civilized languages, and delighted people, old and young, in the five continents.

When he turned his attention to social problems, and wrote "What then must we do?" the book aroused the deepest interest wherever it was read, and was promptly recognized as one of the most remarkable studies of poverty ever penned.

He took to essays, and at once produced a series which many readers have declared to be as interesting and stimulating as any that were ever written.

Interested In the philosophy of art, he wrote "What is Art?" His preparation for this attempt to put art on a new basis took him, it is true, fifteen years, and a majority of critics everywhere denounced the opinions he expressed; but, at any rate, there was no doubt about the general interest he aroused, and the longer the matter is dis-


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 Careful observations seem to indicate that Uranus is a gaseous body, although cooler and more solid than Saturn and Jupiter. This planet is immersed in an exceedingly dense atmosphere quite different in constitution from the light, diaphanous covering of air which encloses the ball of the earth. This is indicated by the broad absorption band in its spectrum.

Uranus is attended by four moons but these are too far away for us to observe in any detail. Herschel discovered two of these soon after the planet was discovered, and they were given the names of Titania and Oberon. In 1851, Lassel of Liverpool discovered two more which were called Ariel and Umbriel. Two of these moons are seen with great difficulty even with the aid of the most powerful telescopes. The orbits of these moons are tipped nearly perpendicular to the plane of the orbits of the earth and Uranus, and their movements are retrograde as regards most of the known movements of the solar system.

This strange planet of the most ancient God of the Heavens is now visible during the spring and summer months as a faint, greenish star of the 6th magnitude, but it is rather difficult to locate unless the observer is an experienced astronomer.

After the discovery of Uranus in 1781, its pathway among the stars of the sky was carefully noted and geometers were not long in fitting it with an orbit. In a few years, however, it was noted that the planet was out of its computed orbit by a distance as great as the moon's distance from the earth. The deviations attracted general attention and popular opinion feared that the new planet, being so far from the center of the solar system, was

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 division of the concession was persisted in, on the grounds that when the company that succeeded d'Afrique was intact it failed to fulfil the Government contract of sending 2,000 negroes annually to the West Indies; and also that it had not imported as much gold from Africa as it might have done. Against this the Directors remonstrated loudly, saying that, during the two years and a half during which they had been responsible for exporting negroes to the West Indies, they had supplied 4,560 negroes, that the register of the Mint proved they had sent home in three years 400 marks of gold, and that it had cost them 400,000 livres to re-establish the trade of the Compagnie d'Afrique, for which they had already paid more than it was worth. All they got by these complaints was an extension of their trade rights from Gambia to Sierra Leone and a confirmation of their monopoly in exporting negroes to the French West Indies, and of their rights to Anguin and Goree, that is to say, a promise of Government assistance if those Dutch should come and attempt to reinstate themselves to the incommodation of French commerce.

All this however did not avail to make the Compagnie du Senegal flourish, so in 1694 it sold its remaining seventeen years of rights for 300,000 livres, to Sieur d'Apougny, one of the old Directors; and this enterprising man secured the assistance of eighteen new shareholders, and obtained from the Crown a new charter, and started afresh under the name of the "Compagnie du Senegal, Cap Nord et Coté d'Afrique." It did not prosper; nevertheless it may be regarded as having produced the founder of modern Senegal, for it sent out to attend to its affairs, when things were in a grievous mess, one of the greatest

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Rh cussed, the stronger grows the suspicion that on the main point of the discussion Tolstoy saw deeper than his critics, and that, great artist as he was, his philosophy of art as well as his practice of it was fundamentally sound.

Finally his philippics, such as his "Reply to the Synod," which had excommunicated him (v. "Essays and Letters"), and his denunciation of the Courts-martial in "I cannot be silent!" rang rang out with a sincerity, courage, and effectiveness unparalleled since Pascal's "Provincial Letters," or the famous theses Luther nailed to the church door at Wittenberg.

Only as a dramatist did Tolstoy fail at his first attempt; and even in that direction success came so promptly that it is his success rather than his failure that surprises one.

As a seventeen-year-old student at Kazán University, he had taken part with much success in two plays given for some charity at Carnival time; and his taste for theatricals did not soon pass, for in later years, when writing of the time after his return from the defence of Sevastopol, and telling of the death of his brother Demetrius, he adds: "I really believe that what hurt me most was that his death prevented my taking part in some private theatricals then being got up at Court, and to which I had been invited."


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 men who have ever gone from Europe to Africa—namely, Sieur Brüe.

The name of this company of Sieur d'Apougny was d'Afrique; and the usual thing happened to it in 1709, when, for 250,000 livres, it made over its rights to a set of Rouen merchants, reserving, however, to itself the right of carrying on certain branches of the trade for which it held Government contracts; failing to carry these out they were taken from it and handed over to the company of Rouen merchants, who succumbed to their liabilities in 1717. Their rights were then bought up, for 1,600,000 livres, by the already established Mississippi Company of Paris a company which survived until 1758.

In 1758 the English again captured St. Louis, the French main post in Senegal. In 1779 the French recaptured it, and it was ceded to them by England officially in the treaty of 1783. This was merely the usual kind of international amenity prevalent on the West Coast in those days. Dutch, French, English, Danes, Portuguese, and Courlanders would gallantly seize each other's property out there, while their respective Governments at home, if the matter were brought before their notice, and it was apparently worth their while, disowned all knowledge of their representatives' villainies and returned the booty to the prior owner on paper. The aggrieved Power then engaged in the difficult undertaking of regaining possession; the said original villain knowing little and caring less about the arrangements made on the point by his home Government. But just at this period England dealt French trade a frightful blow. The whole of her iniquity took the form of one John Law, a native of Edinburgh, who raised himself to the dignity of comp-

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8 While living in Petersburg and Moscow as a young man, Tolstoy was enthusiastic in his admiration of one of the great Russian actors of those days. But he never lived much in cities, and probably no other great dramatist ever spent so little time in the theatre as he did. In that, as in many other lines of work, his quickness of perception, tenacity of memory, and vividness of emotion enabled him to dispense with the long training men of less genius require.

In 1863, soon after his marriage, he wrote two plays which were never published. One, a farcical comedy called The Nihilist, was privately performed with much success. The other, also a comedy, called The Infected Family, he intended for public performance. With that end in view Tolstoy took it to Moscow early in 1864. The theatrical season (which in Russia ends at the beginning of Lent) was then, however, too far advanced for any manager to stage the piece that winter; and as it dealt with a topic of the day which lost some of its freshness by keeping, Tolstoy never afterwards offered it to any one.

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 troller-general of the finance of France by a specious scheme for a bank, an East India Company and a Mississippi Company, by the profits of which the French national debt was to be paid off, a thing then in urgent need of doing, and every one connected with the affair was to make their fortunes, an undertaking always in need of doing in any country. The French Government gave him every encouragement, and in 1716 he opened the bank; in 1719 the shares of that bank were worth more than eighty times the current specie in France; in 1720 that bank burst, spreading commercial ruin. To this may be ascribed the period of paralysis in the Senegal trade from 1719. The Compagnie de Senegal had handed over their interest to the Mississippi Company involved in John Law's bank scheme. After this, up to 1817, France like F. M. the Duke of Wellington anent playing upon the harp, "had other things to do" than attend to West Africa. During the Napoleonic Wars England took all the French possessions in West Africa, but by the treaty of Paris of 1814 she handed back those in Senegal, save the Gambia. The French

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 breaking away from the sun's control. But a young mathematician, J. C. Adams, and a few months later an older and experienced mathematical astronomer, Leverrier, conceived a more logical solution of the mystery, and decided that they would search beyond Uranus and see if there was not a planet which was attracting Uranus and causing irregularities in the great world's motion. This was a tremendous task, for not only was it necessary to calculate the orbit of the hypothetical planet, but also the weight and speed that such a planet would have in order to pull Uranus in exactly the way that it was being perturbed. After much hard work the problem was satisfactorily solved by each man independently.

Challis at Oxford, following the computations of Adams, first commenced to search in the place where these indicated that the planet might be found, and on August 4th, 1846, actually saw and mapped the star but did not recognize its planetary character. On the 23rd of September, 1846, Galle of Berlin, searching at the place indicated by Leverrier, found the new world at almost the exact place indicated by the computations! This should satisfy the most skeptical as to the validity of the great Newtonian law of gravitation and the accuracy of the mathematical deductions therefrom. To prove the existence of a planet and to determine its position before it was ever seen, is considered by scientists to be among the most amazing intellectual achievements ever recorded in history.

Neptune requires 165 years to complete a revolution around the sun. The boundary line of the solar system, which is the planet's orbit, is a tremendously long pathway on which to travel, for it lies at a distance of 2,775,000,000 miles from the sun.

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 It has been estimated that as Neptune is so far away from the sun, it receives only th as much light and heat as our earth.

The sun, as viewed from Neptune, would look very small, not much larger than Venus does to us when she is nearest the earth, although he gives to Neptune 250,000 times more light than Venus gives to us at her best.

Neptune possesses only one known satellite. This satellite has the peculiarity of whirling much as if it had been tipped over through an angle of 150 degrees, which causes it to move in a direction opposite to that in which the planets travel around the sun.

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 vessel sent out to take over the territory was the ill-starred and ill-navigated Méduse. Owing to her wreck it was not until 1817 that France replaced officially her standard on this Coast. On the 25th of January of that year, and represented by Colonel Smaltz, she again entered into possession of Goree and St. Louis in the mouth of the Senegal, which was practically all she had, and that was in a very unsatisfactory state. Colonel Smaltz, in 1819, had to come to an agreement with the Oulof chief of the St Louis district to pay him a subsidy, but a mere catalogue of the wars between the French and the Oulofs is not necessary here; they were mutually unsatisfactory until there enters on the scene that second great founder of the French power in Africa, General Faidherbe, in 1854. Faidherbe is indeed the founder; but had it not been for Sieur Brüe and his travels far into the interior, and the evidence he collected regarding the riches therein, and of the general value of the country, it is not likely that, as things were in 1854, France would have troubled herself so much about extending her power in Senegal.

Faidherbe was also one of those men who get possessed by a belief in the future of West Africa, regardless of any state of dilapidation they may find it in, and who have the power of infusing their enthusiasm into the minds of others; and he roused France to the importance of Senegal, saying prophetically, "Our possession on the West Coast of Africa is possibly the one of all our colonies that has before it the greatest future, and it deserves the whole sympathy and attention of the Empire."

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and as Christ is the Head of the Church, not the Father or the holy Spirit: so he doth give life and sence to the body, and not the whole Trinity. If the speciall Offices of Christ be considered severally, much more if all of them be considered joyntly, it will evidently appeare, that both natures must necessarily concurre in the formall execution of them. For he cannot worthily performe the office of the chiefe Doctor of the whole Church, and heavenly Prophet, nor execute the office of an eternall high Priest, that is, offer a Sacrifice truly propitiatory, daily heare the prayers of all his people, and present them before God; nor exercise kingly power and authority in heaven and earth, who worketh to the forme of meere humanitie, or onely as he is man: When in those offices there must be a divine excellencie and efficacie.

The end of personall union is the administration of his office; and the personall union of two natures in Christ had not been necessary, unlesse both had concurred as a formall beginning to that worke. For every agent necessarily worketh according to and by its forme; whence it followeth, either that the person of the Mediatour doth not consist of two natures, or both natures of Christ, as proper formes, doe necessarily concurre to the proper works of a Mediatour, because the proper operations must be conjoyned in one worke of a Mediatour, as both natures are joyned and united in one person. There is one God, saith the Apostle, and one Mediatour between God and man, the man Christ Jesus: adding the man Christ, to shew that in him were both natures, that is, he was God and man in one person, and so a fit middle person or Mediatour. And man may be taken personally, not naturally, it being most usuall to name the whole person of Christ from either nature: as he is called the Lord of glory, when his person is understood. And so in this place, the man Christ, that is, that person, who hath that nature by which he is truly called man: and of that appellation there may be divers weighty reasons more, amongst the rest this, that the Apostle would encourage us to put our trust and confidence in him as being our elder brother. By voluntary dispensation Christ is Mediatour as God incarnate, and not by nature as God. And according to that dispensation Christ is Mediatour to the Father, who is personally called God sometimes in this respect, and distinguished from Christ as Mediatour:


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 there, M. Sanguin, in 1785, who, speaking of the island of St. Louis, says it consists entirely of burning sands on whose barren surface you sometimes meet with scattered flints thrown out among their ballast by ships, and the ruins of buildings formerly erected by Europeans; but he remarks it is not surprising the sands are barren, for the air is so strongly impregnated with salt, which pervades everything and consumes even iron in a very short space of time. The heat he reports unpleasant, and rendered thus more so by the reflection from the sand. If the island were not all it might be, one might still hope for better things ashore on the mainland, but not according to M. Sanguin. The mainland is covered with sand and overrun with mangles, not the sort, you understand, that vulgar little English boys used to state their mothers had sold and invested the money in a barrel organ, but what we now call mangroves; then, mentioning that the St. Louis water supply was the cause of most of those maladies which carry off the Europeans so rapidly, that at the end of every three years the colony has a fresh set of inhabitants, M. Sanguin discourses on the charms of West African night entertainments in a most feeling and convincing way, stating that there was an infinity of gnats called mosquitoes, which exist in incredible quantities. He does not mind them himself, oh dear no! being a sort of savage, he says, totally indifferent to the impression he may create in the fair sex, so that, if you please, he smears himself over with butter, which preserves him from the mosquitoes' impertinent stings. How he came by a sufficiency of butter for this purpose I won't pretend to know; but he knew mosquitoes, for impertinent is a perfect word for them. M. Sanguin, however, was not the sort of man,

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 with all his ability and enterprise, to advertise Senegal successfully to France. Whatever Frenchman would care to go to a land where he needs must be sufficiently indifferent to the fair sex to smear himself with butter! Dire and awful dangers and miscellaneous horrors, even to being carried off by maladies among mangles in an atmosphere stiff with mosquitoes, but not that!

Now Faidherbe was different. Remember to the honour of the man he started with the above-described environment, but he took the grand tone and did not dwell on local imperfections; the burning sands of Senegal he mentioned, as all who know them are, by a natural constraint, forced, as Azurara would say, to do, but he said our intentions are pure and noble, our cause is just, the future cannot fail us; and with such words, to his credit and to the credit of La France, he spoke to her heart; and he spoke truly, for with all its failures, with all the fearful loss of the lives of Frenchmen, Senegal is a grand thing, and it is a great thing for France, for from it has risen her masterdom over the Western Soudan—a work also inaugurated by Faidherbe, through his support of Lieutenant Maze, who reached the Niger. Practical in his work, Faidherbe was also—by rebuilding the fort at Medina—the annexation of the Oulof country (1856); the institution of a battalion of native Tirailleurs (1857); the telegraph line between St. Louis and Goree (1862); the construction of the harbour at Darkar and the erection of a first-class light-house at Cape Verd (1864); and the annexation of the kingdom of Cayore (1865). A grand record! and one that would be grander for France were it not for the

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 ing into the heart of the other, each seeing the beginning of a new day.

"Child," his voice trembled dangerously, "I—I wonder if you care enough for me to—to—" but he could only look the question.

"To start all over again with you?" she whispered.

"Yes—to trust yourself to the prodigal who has returned. Without you, child, all the rest would be as the husks. Peggy, I want you—you! You do love me—I can see it in your eyes, I can feel it in your presence."

"How long you have been in realizing it," she said pensively as she stretched out her arms to him. For many minutes he held her close, finding a beautiful peace in the world again.

"How long have you really cared?" he asked in a whisper.

"Always, Monty; all my life."

"And I, too, child, all my life. I know it now; I've known it for months. Oh, what a fool I was to have wasted all this love of yours and all this love of mine. But I'll not be a profligate in love, Peggy. I'll not squander an atom of it, dear, not as long as I live."

"And we will build a greater love, Monty, as we build the new life together. We never can be poor while we have love as a treasure."


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 "You won't mind being poor with me?" he asked.

"I can't be poor with you," she said simply.

"And I might have let all this escape me," he cried fervently. "Listen, Peggy—we will start together, you as my wife and my fortune. You shall be all that is left to me of the past. Will you marry me the day after to-morrow? Don't say no, dearest. I want to begin on that day. At seven in the morning, dear? Don't you see how good the start will be?"

And he pleaded so ardently and so earnestly that he won his point even though it grew out of a whim that she could not then understand. She was not to learn until afterward his object in having the marriage take place on the morning of September 23d, two hours before the time set for the turning over of the Sedgwick millions. If all went well they would be Brewster's millions before twelve o'clock, and Peggy's life of poverty would cover no more than three hours of time. She believed him worth a lifetime of poverty. So they would start the new life with but one possession—love.

Peggy rebelled against his desire to spend the seventy dollars that still remained, but he was firm in his determination. They would dine and drive together and see all of the old life that was


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 left—on seventy dollars. Then on the next day they would start all over again. There was one rude moment of dismay when it occurred to him that Peggy might be considered an "asset" if she became his wife before nine o'clock. But he realized at once that it was only demanded of him that he be penniless and that he possess no object that had been acquired through the medium of Edwin Peter Brewster's money. Surely this wife who was not to come to him until his last dollar was gone could not be the product of an old man's legacy. But so careful was he in regard to the transaction that he decided to borrow money of Joe Bragdon to buy the license and to pay the minister's fee. Not only would he be penniless on the day of settlement, but he would be in debt. So changed was the color of the world to him now that even the failure to win Sedgwick's millions could not crush out the new life and the new joy that had come to him with the winning of Peggy Gray.


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 Soon after noon on the 22d of September, Monty folded his report to Swearengen Jones, stuck it into his pocket and sallied forth. A parcel delivery wagon had carried off a mysterious bundle a few minutes before. Mrs. Gray could not conceal her wonder but Brewster's answers to her questions threw little light on the mystery. He could not tell her the big bundle contained the receipts that were to prove his sincerity when the time came to settle with Mr. Jones. Brewster had used his own form of receipt for every purchase. The little stub receipt books had been made to order for him and not only he but every person in his employ carried one everywhere. No matter how trivial the purchase, the person who received a dollar of Brewster's money signed a receipt for the amount. Newsboys and bootblacks were the only beings who escaped the formality; tips to waiters, porters, cabbies, etc., were recorded and afterward put into a class by themselves. Receipts for the


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 few dollars remaining in his possession were to be turned over on the morning of the 23d and the general report was not to be completed until 9 o'clock on that day.

He kissed Peggy good-bye, told her to be ready for a drive at 4 o'clock, and then went off to find Joe Bragdon and Elon Gardner. They met him by appointment and to them he confided his design to be married on the following day.

"You can't afford it, Monty," exploded Joe, fearlessly. "Peggy is too good a girl. By Gad, it isn't fair to her."

"We have agreed to begin life to-morrow. Wait and see the result. I think it will surprise you. Incidentally it is up to me to get the license to-day and to engage a minister's services. It's going to be quiet, you know. Joe, you can be my best man if you like, and, Gardie, I'll expect you to sign your name as one of the witnesses. To-morrow evening we'll have supper at Mrs. Gray's and 'among those present' will not comprise a very large list, I assure you. But we'll talk about that later on. Just now I want to ask you fellows to lend me enough money to get the license and pay the preacher. I'll return it to-morrow afternoon."

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 utterly dumbfounded by the nerve of the man. But they went with him to get the license and Bragdon paid for it. Gardner promised to have the minister at the Gray house the next morning. Monty's other request—made in deep seriousness—was that Peggy was not to be told of the little transaction in which the license and the minister figured so prominently. He then hurried off to the office of Grant & Ripley. The bundles of receipts had preceded him.

"Has Jones arrived in town?" was his first anxious question after the greetings.

"He is not registered at any of the hotels," responded Mr. Grant, and Brewster did not see the troubled look that passed over his face.

"He'll show up to-night, I presume," said he, complacently. The lawyers did not tell him that all the telegrams they had sent to Swearengen Jones in the past two weeks had been returned to the New York office as unclaimed in Butte. The telegraph company reported that Mr. Jones was not to be found and that he had not been seen in Butte since the 3d of September. The lawyers were hourly expecting word from Montana men to whom they had telegraphed for information and


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 advice. They were extremely nervous, but Montgomery Brewster was too eager and excited to notice the fact.

"A tall, bearded stranger was here this morning asking for you, Mr. Brewster," said Ripley, his head bent over some papers on his desk.

"Ah! Jones, I'm sure. I've always imagined him with a long beard," said Monty, relief in his voice.

"It was not Mr. Jones. We know Jones quite well. This man was a stranger and refused to give his name. He said he would call at Mrs. Gray's this afternoon."

"Did he look like a constable or a bill-collector?" asked Monty, with a laugh.

"He looked very much like a tramp."

"Well, we'll forget him for the time being," said Monty, drawing the report from his pocket. "Would you mind looking over this report, gentlemen? I'd like to know if it is in proper form to present to Mr. Jones."

Grant's hand trembled as he took the carefully folded sheet from Brewster. A quick glance of despair passed between the two lawyers.

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 They are classified, however, and the receipts over there are arranged in such a way that Mr. Jones can very easily verify all the figures set out in the report. For instance, where it says 'cigars,' I have put down the total amount that went up in smoke. The receipts are to serve as an itemized statement, you know." Mr. Ripley took the paper from his partner's hand and, pulling himself together, read the report aloud. It was as follows:

New York, Sept. 23, 19—. Executor under the will of the late James T. Sedgwick of Montana:

In pursuance of the terms of the aforesaid will and in accord with the instructions set forth by yourself as executor, I present my report of receipts and disbursements for the year in my life ending at midnight on Sept. 22. The accuracy of the figures set forth in this general statement may be established by referring to the receipts, which form a part of this report. There is not one penny of Edwin Peter Brewster's money in my possession, and I have no asset to mark its burial place. These figures are submitted for your most careful consideration.


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 * ORIGINAL CAPITAL |||$1,000,000.00
 * "Lumber and Fuel" misfortune |||58,550.00
 * Prize-fight misjudged |||1,000.00
 * Monte Carlo education |||40,000.00
 * Race track errors |||700.00
 * Sale of six terrier pups |||150.00
 * Sale of furniture and personal effects |||40,500.00
 * Interest on funds once in hand |||19,140.00
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 * Rent for apartments |||$23,000.00
 * Furnishing apartments |||88,372.00
 * Three automobiles |||21,000.00
 * Renting six automobiles |||25,000.00
 * Amount lost to DeMille |||1,000.00
 * Salaries |||25,650.00
 * Amount paid to men injured in auto accident |||12,240 00
 * Amount lost in bank failure |||113,468.25
 * Amount lost on races |||4,000.00
 * One glass screen |||3,000.00
 * Christmas presents |||7,211.00
 * Postage |||1,105.00
 * Cable and telegraph |||3,253.00
 * Stationery |||2,400.00
 * Two Boston terriers |||600.00
 * Amount lost to "hold-up men" |||450.00
 * Amount lost on concert tour|||56,382.00
 * Amount lost through O. Harrison's speculation (on my account) |||60,000.00
 * One ball (in two sections) |||60,000.00
 * Extra favors |||6,000.00
 * One yacht cruise |||212,309.50
 * One carnival |||6,824.00
 * Cigars |||1,720.00
 * Drinks, chiefly for others |||9,040.00
 * Clothing |||3,400.00
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 * Amount lost on races |||4,000.00
 * One glass screen |||3,000.00
 * Christmas presents |||7,211.00
 * Postage |||1,105.00
 * Cable and telegraph |||3,253.00
 * Stationery |||2,400.00
 * Two Boston terriers |||600.00
 * Amount lost to "hold-up men" |||450.00
 * Amount lost on concert tour|||56,382.00
 * Amount lost through O. Harrison's speculation (on my account) |||60,000.00
 * One ball (in two sections) |||60,000.00
 * Extra favors |||6,000.00
 * One yacht cruise |||212,309.50
 * One carnival |||6,824.00
 * Cigars |||1,720.00
 * Drinks, chiefly for others |||9,040.00
 * Clothing |||3,400.00
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 * Amount lost on concert tour|||56,382.00
 * Amount lost through O. Harrison's speculation (on my account) |||60,000.00
 * One ball (in two sections) |||60,000.00
 * Extra favors |||6,000.00
 * One yacht cruise |||212,309.50
 * One carnival |||6,824.00
 * Cigars |||1,720.00
 * Drinks, chiefly for others |||9,040.00
 * Clothing |||3,400.00
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 * Cigars |||1,720.00
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 * Clothing |||3,400.00
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"It's rather broad, you see, gentlemen, but there are receipts for every dollar, barring some trifling incidentals. He may think I dissipated the fortune, but I defy him or any one else to prove that I have not had my money's worth. To tell you the truth, it has seemed like a hundred million. If any one should tell you that it is an easy matter to waste a million dollars, refer him to me. Last fall I weighed 180 pounds, yesterday I barely


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 moved the beam at 140; last fall there was not a wrinkle in my face, nor did I have a white hair. You see the result of overwork, gentlemen. It will take an age to get back to where I was physically, but I think I can do it with the vacation that begins to-morrow. Incidentally, I'm going to be married to-morrow morning, just when I am poorer than I ever expect to be again. I still have a few dollars to spend and I must be about it. To-morrow I will account for what I spend this evening. It is now covered by the 'sundries' item, but I'll have the receipts to show, all right. See you to-morrow morning."

He was gone, eager to be with Peggy, afraid to discuss his report with the lawyers. Grant and Ripley shook their heads and sat silent for a long time after his departure.

"We ought to hear something definite before night," said Grant, but there was anxiety in his voice.

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 "It's all up to Jones now," kept running through Brewster's brain as he drove off to keep his appointment with Peggy Gray. "The million is gone—all gone. I'm as poor as Job's turkey. It's up to Jones, but I don't see how he can decide against me. He insisted on making a pauper of me and he can't have the heart to throw me down now. But, what if he should take it into his head to be ugly! I wonder if I could break the will—I wonder if I could beat him out in court."

Peggy was waiting for him. Her cheeks were flushed as with a fever. She had caught from him the mad excitement of the occasion.

"Come, Peggy," he exclaimed, eagerly. "This is our last holiday—let's be merry. We can forget it to-morrow, if you like, when we begin all over again, but maybe it will be worth remembering." He assisted her to the seat and then leaped up beside her. "We're off!" he cried, his voice quivering.

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 but her eyes were sparkling with the joy of recklessness. Away went the trap and the two light hearts. Mrs. Gray turned from a window in the house with tears in her eyes. To her troubled mind they were driving off into utter darkness.

"The queerest looking man came to the house to see you this afternoon, Monty," said Peggy. "He wore a beard and he made me think of one of Remington's cowboys."

"What was his name?"

"He told the maid it did not matter. I saw him as he walked away and he looked very much a man. He said he would come to-morrow if he did not find you down town to-night. Don't you recognize him from the description?"

"Not at all. Can't imagine who he is."

"Monty," she said, after a moment's painful reflection, "he—he couldn't have been a"

"I know what you mean. An officer sent up to attach my belongings or something of the sort. No, dearest; I give you my word of honor I do not owe a dollar in the world." Then he recalled his peculiar indebtedness to Bragdon and Gardner. "Except one or two very small personal obligations," he added, hastily. "Don't worry about it, dear, we are


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 out for a good time and we must make the most of it. First, we drive through the Park, then we dine at Sherry's."

"But we must dress for that, dear," she cried. "And the chaperon?"

He turned very red when she spoke of dressing. "I'm ashamed to confess it, Peggy, but I have no other clothes than these I'm wearing now. Don't look so hurt, dear—I'm going to leave an order for new evening clothes to-morrow—if I have the time. And about the chaperon. People won't be talking before to-morrow and by that time"

"No, Monty, Sherry's is out of the question. We can't go there," she said, decisively.

"Oh, Peggy! That spoils everything," he cried, in deep disappointment.

"It isn't fair to me, Monty. Everybody would know us, and every tongue would wag. They would say, 'There are Monty Brewster and Margaret Gray. Spending his last few dollars on her.' You wouldn't have them think that?"

He saw the justice in her protest. "A quiet little dinner in some out of the way place would be joyous," she added, persuasively.

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 the handful that I don't know how to do it any other way. I believe I'll let you carry the pocketbook after to-morrow. Let me think; I knew a nice little restaurant down town. We'll go there and then to the theater. Dan DeMille and his wife are to be in my box and we're all going up to Pettingill's studio afterward. I'm to give the 'Little Sons' a farewell supper. If my calculations don't go wrong, that will be the end of the jaunt and we'll go home happy."

At eleven o'clock Pettingill's studio opened its doors to the "Little Sons" and their guests, and the last "Dutch lunch" was soon under way. Brewster had paid for it early in the evening and when he sat down at the head of the table there was not a penny in his pockets. A year ago, at the same hour, he and the "Little Sons" were having a birthday feast. A million dollars came to him on that night. To-night he was poorer by far than on the other occasion, but he expected a little gift on the new anniversary.

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 before the echoes of the toast to the bride and groom died away.

Interruption came earlier on this occasion than it did that night a year ago. Ellis did not deliver his message to Brewster until three o'clock in the morning, but the A.D.T. boy who rang the bell at Pettingill's a year later handed him a telegram before twelve o'clock.

"Congratulations are coming in, old man," said DeMille, as Monty looked fearfully at the little envelope the boy had given him.

"Many happy returns of the day," suggested Bragdon. "By Jove, it's sensible of you to get married on your birthday, Monty. It saves time and expense to your friends."

"Read it aloud," said "Subway" Smith.

"Two to one it's from Nopper Harrison," cried Pettingill.

Brewster's fingers trembled, he knew not why, as he opened the envelope. There was the most desolate feeling in his heart, the most ghastly premonition that ill-news had come in this last hour. He drew forth the telegram and slowly, painfully unfolded it. No one could have told by his expression that he felt almost that he was reading his death warrant. It was from Grant & Ripley and evidently had been following him about town for two or three


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OR,

Virtue Rewarded.

In a Series of Familiar Letters, &c.

LETTER I.

Dear Father and Mother,

I Have great Trouble and ome Comfort, to acquaint you with. The Trouble is, that my good Lady died of the Illnes I mention'd to you, and left us all much grieved for her Los; for he was a dear good Lady, and kind to all us her Servants. Much I fear'd, that as I was taken by her Ladyship to wait upon her Peron, I ould quite detitute again, and forc'd to return to you and


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 hours. The lawyers had filed it at 8:30 o'clock.

He read it at a glance, his eyes burning, his heart freezing. To the end of his days these words lived sharp and distinct in his brain.

"Come to the office immediately. Will wait all night for you if necessary. Jones has disappeared and there is absolutely no trace of him.

Grant & Ripley."

Brewster sat as one paralyzed, absolutely no sign of emotion in his face. The others began to clamor for the contents of the telegram, but his tongue was stiff and motionless, his ears deaf. Every drop of blood in his body was stilled by the shock, every sense given him by the Creator was centered upon eleven words in the handwriting of a careless telegraph operator—"Jones has disappeared and there is absolutely no trace of him."

"JONES HAS DISAPPEARED!" Those were the words, plain and terrible in their clearness, tremendous in their brutality. Slowly the rest of the message began to urge its claims upon his brain. "Come to our office immediately" and "Will wait all night" battled for recognition. He was calm because he had not the power to express an emotion. How he


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314 the study of the New England towns is, in part, in the critical light which is thrown on the whole notion of village-communities as it has become current in our literature. The New England towns certainly lacked the communal element; religious sympathy was the strongest associative principle there was in them, but otherwise the sentiment was strongly individualistic. They were also so utterly loose in their ties, and the internal cohesion was so slight, that they never exercised that educating and formative influence which peasant villages in Europe, having through centuries retained the same institutions and customs, undoubtedly did exercise. In the South, where the plantation system existed, not even these nuclei of social organization were formed. Thus the whole of this country, until the beginning of the eighteenth century, presented the picture of the loosest and most scattered human society which is consistent with civilization at all, and there were not lacking phenomena of a positive decline of civilization and gravitation towards the life of the Indians. Political organization scarcely existed and civil organization was but slight. Later generations have condemned and ridiculed the religious bigotry of the colonists with its attendant religious persecution and the political ostracism of all but the ruling sect; but if this strong religious sympathy had not existed, what associative principle would they have had to hold them together and build up a civil society?

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Rh areas very great as compared with the amount of land under cultivation. Those names had very little meaning to the people of that time, for life and its interests were bounded by the town. Only in the eighteenth century can we see the horizon extend so that the province grows to be the real civil unit and grows into a real commonwealth; the process was slow, however, and for the most part unwilling. In the nineteenth century the conception of the national and civil unit has expanded so that our sense of nationality cleaves to the Union as a great confederated state. This advance in the feeling of the people as to what the country to which they belong is, and what that is which is the object of patriotism, is one of the interesting developments of our history. The merging of the town into the state and of the state into the United States has been brought about by the increase of population, the filling up of the country, the multiplication of interests reaching out all over it and grappling the people together. The bonds are those of kin, of industry and commerce, of religion through the various denominations and churches, of common pursuits in education, science, and art, and of associations for various purposes of culture or pleasure. This is what we mean by the advancing social organization. It unites us into a whole; it forms us into a society; it gives us sentiments of association and co-operation. Our states, instead of being separate bodies united only by neighborhood and alliance, are formed into one body with nerves running through it; and it is by virtue of these nerves, that is, of the lines of common feeling and interest which I have mentioned, that a touch at one point brings out a reaction from the whole.

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Rh has been fully illustrated. Every step of the way up to the present system which, I think, we regard almost unanimously as an advance and a gain, as we look back upon it, has been contested. The advancing organization draws together and consolidates, provided its action is not so abrupt and harsh as to provoke rebellion and disruption. In every case it produces a more prompt civil reaction. By this we mean that there is a more prompt obedience to authority, greater punctuality in the performance of legal duties, and greater exactitude in the co-operation of institutions and persons who are called upon by the civil authority to perform civil functions for the good of the state. This means greater discipline and less liberty.

Here I use the word "liberty" in its primary sense: a status in which there are no restraints on the self-determination of the individual. That liberty is, of course, never more than relative, for there are restraints wherever there are any institutions, customs, or laws at all. Therefore this kind of liberty, if an attempt is made to realize it against laws and institutions, is anarchistic. I shall refer to it sometimes in speaking of the later history as anarchistic liberty.

No men on earth have ever been as free to do as they pleased as these American colonists were. Savage men are not free to do as they please and may be dismissed from comparison; civilized men in the Old World were born into a society already old; here, however, were civilized men who, after they had secured a footing, were limited by the very least restraint of any kind which can exist in human life. The fetters which they laid on themselves in accordance with their religious dogmas were no doubt a good thing, for otherwise there would have been no discipline at all, and for human


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316 the contrary direction. They are the forces of discord and divergent interest. In a state of seventy million people scattered over a continent the forces of disruption are always at work. The great social organization all the time tends to promote a great political organization; as the interests multiply and become complex, there is a call for federal legislation in order to get uniformity, e.g., as to marriage, divorce, bankruptcy. The laws also get extensions from use and new application, the effects of which in a few years amaze us by their magnitude and importance, as, for example, the Interstate Commerce Law. Now all this extension, systematization, and uniformity-making produces symmetry, order, and elegance, but it goes with the old terror of our statesmen — consolidation. It is making of us a great empire. Few people, even of those who have lived through it, seem to notice the great change which has come over our federal system since the Civil War. The most important alteration is that in the feeling of the people about what sort of a government there is at Washington — what it is and what it can do. Young people should understand that the indescribable sense and feeling about that question, which we carry with us now, is totally different from the sentiments of our fathers between 1850 and 1860. Now there is a danger in centralization. A big system never can fit exactly at more than a few places, if at any; elsewhere it strains a little in its adaptation and it may strain very much. If it does, we shall hear an outcry of distress and it may be of anger and revolt, for the movement to higher organization means a movement away from liberty, and is always attended by irritation until men become habituated to the constraint of the organization and realize its benefits. In the course of our history this


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Rh ject to no responsibilities, risks, charges, expenses, or burdens of any kind — these being all left to the educated and property classes? Where else has it ever been possible for a numerical majority to entail upon a society burdens which the minority must bear, while the aforesaid majority may scatter and leave the society and trouble themselves no further about it? The men of the Revolution never could have imagined any such state of things. In 1775 the convention of Worcester County, Massachusetts, petitioned the Provincial Congress "that no man may be allowed to have a seat therein who does not vote away his own money for public purposes in common with the other members' and with his constituents'." That was the prevailing doctrine everywhere at the time, and yet within fifty years the evolution of civil institutions, instead of realizing that doctrine, produced the state of things which I have just described — and that state of things was produced contemporaneously with an integration of civil institutions, an elevation of the authority of law, and a sharpening of social discipline.

Now the current opinion amongst us undoubtedly is that the extension of the suffrage and the virtual transfer of the powers of government to the uneducated and non-property classes, compelling the educated and property classes, if they want to influence the government, to do so by persuading or perhaps corrupting the former, is a piece of political wisdom to which our fathers were led by philosophy and by the conviction that the doctrine of it was true and just. There were causes for it, however, which were far more powerful than preaching, argument, and philosophy; and besides, if you will notice how hopeless it is by any argument


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"The Smile of Reims," by Florence Earle Coates, published in "The Bellman," is one of the most admirable poems yet to come from this talented poet.

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336 has always been good, but I doubt if anyone would deny that it has sometimes been good.

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Section 1 of Republic Act No. 3046, entitled “An Act to Define the Baselines of the Territorial Sea of the Philippines”, as amended by Section 1 of Republic Act No. 5446, is hereby amended to read as follows:

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 * align="right"| 15||  ||PAB-13||Atalaya Pt.||12° 41′ 6.37″||125° 3′ 53.71″||align="right"|6.79
 * align="right"| 16||  ||PAB-13A||Bacan Is.||12° 36′ 18.41″||125° 8′ 50.19″||align="right"|5.52
 * align="right"| 17||  ||PAB-14||Finch Rk.||12° 32′ 33.62″||125° 12′ 59.70″||align="right"|0.80
 * align="right"| 18||  ||PAB-14A||Cube Rk.||12° 31′ 57.45″||125° 13′ 32.37″||align="right"|4.90
 * align="right"| 19||  ||PAB-14D||NW Manjud Pt.||12° 28′ 36.42″||125° 17′ 12.32″||align="right"|1.30
 * align="right"| 20||  ||PAB-15||SE Manjud Pt.||12° 27′ 37.51″||125° 18′ 5.23″||align="right"|7.69
 * align="right"| 21||  ||PAB-16A||E Sora Cay||12° 21′ 41.64″||125° 23′ 7.41″||align="right"|5.68
 * align="right"| 22||  ||PAB-16B||Panablijon||12° 17′ 27.17″||125° 27′ 0.12″||align="right"|5.21
 * align="right"| 23||  ||PAB-16C||Alugon||12° 13′ 21.95″||125° 30′ 19.47″||align="right"|1.94
 * align="right"| 24||  ||PAB-16D||N Bunga Pt.||12° 11′ 48.16″||125° 31′ 30.88″||align="right"|0.54
 * align="right"| 25||  ||PAB-17A||E Bunga Pt.||12° 11′ 20.67″||125° 31′ 48.29″||align="right"|5.71
 * align="right"| 26||  ||PAB-18A||SE Tubabao Is.||12° 6′ 7.00″||125° 34′ 11.94″||align="right"|83.84
 * align="right"| 27||  ||PAB-19C||Suluan Is.||10° 45′ 16.70″||125° 58′ 8.78″||align="right"|56.28
 * align="right"| 28||  ||PAB-19D||N Tuason Pt.||9° 49′ 59.58″||126° 10′ 6.39″||align="right"|57.44
 * align="right"| 29||  ||PAB-20A||Arangasa Is.||8° 53′ 16.62″||126° 20′ 48.81″||align="right"|40.69
 * align="right"| 30||  ||PAB-21B||Sanco Pt.||8° 13′ 11.53″||126° 28′ 53.25″||align="right"|30.80
 * align="right"| 31||  ||PAB-22||Bagoso Is.||7° 42″ 45.02″||126° 34′ 29.03″||align="right"|12.95
 * align="right"| 32||  ||PAB-22C||Languyan||7° 29′ 49.47″||126° 35′ 59.24″||align="right"|0.54
 * align="right"| 33||  ||PAB-23||Languyan||7° 29′ 16.93″||126° 35′ 59.50″||align="right"|0.76
 * align="right"| 34||  ||PAB-23B||Languyan||7° 28′ 30.97″||126° 35′ 57.30″||align="right"|1.02
 * align="right"| 35||  ||PAB-23C||N Baculin Pt.||7° 27′ 29.42″||126° 35′ 51.71″||align="right"|10.12
 * align="right"| 36||  ||PAB-24||Pusan Pt.||7° 17′ 19.80″||126° 36′ 18.16″||align="right"|1.14
 * align="right"| 37||  ||PAB-24A||S Pusan Pt.||7° 16′ 14.43″||126° 35′ 57.20″||align="right"|63.28
 * align="right"| 38||  ||PAB-25B||Cape San Agustin||6° 17′ 14.73″||126° 12′ 14.40″||align="right"|1.28
 * align="right"| 39||  ||PAB-25||Cape San Agustin||6° 16′ 8.35″||126° 11′ 35.06″||align="right"|67.65
 * align="right"| 40||  ||PAB-26||SE Sarangani Is.||5° 23′ 34.20″||125° 28′ 42.11″||align="right"|0.43
 * align="right"| 41||  ||PAB-27||Panguil Bato Pt.||5° 23′ 21.80||125° 28′ 19.59″||align="right"|3.44
 * align="right"| 42||  ||PAB-28||Tapundo Pt.||5° 21′ 55.66″||125° 25′ 11.21″||align="right"|3.31
 * align="right"| 43||  ||PAB-29||W Calia Pt.||5° 21′ 58.48″||125° 21′ 52.03″||align="right"|0.87
 * align="right"| 44||  ||PAB-30||Manamil Is.||5° 22′ 2.91″||125° 20′ 59.73″||align="right"|1.79
 * align="right"| 45||  ||PAB-31||Marampog Pt.||5° 23′ 20.18″||125° 19′ 44.29″||align="right"|78.42
 * align="right"| 46||  ||PAB-32||Pola Pt.||6° 9′ 8.44″||124° 15′ 42.81″||align="right"|122.88
 * align="right"| 47||  ||PAB-33A||Kauluan Is.||6° 26′ 47.22″||122° 13′ 34.50″||align="right"|29.44
 * align="right"| 48||  ||PAB-34A||Tongquil Is.||6° 2′ 33.77″||121° 56′ 36.20″||align="right"|2.38
 * align="right"| 49||  ||PAB-35||Tongquil Is.||6° 1′ 8.15″||121° 54′ 41.45″||align="right"|1.72
 * align="right"| 50||  ||PAB-35A||Tongquil Is.||6° 0′ 17.88″||121° 53′ 11.17″||align="right"|85.94
 * align="right"| 51||  ||PAB-38A||Kinapusan Is.||5° 12′ 8.70″||120° 41′ 38.14″||align="right"|55.24
 * align="right"| 52||  ||PAB-39||Manuk Manka Is.||4° 47′ 39.24″||119° 51′ 58.08″||align="right"|43.44
 * align="right"| 53||  ||PAB-40||Frances Reef||4° 24′ 53.84″||119° 14′ 50.71″||align="right"|0.61
 * align="right"| 54||  ||PAB-40A||Frances Reef||4° 25′ 3.83″||119° 14′ 15.15″||align="right"|15.48
 * align="right"| 55||  ||PAB-41A||Bajapa Reef||4° 36′ 9.01″||119° 3′ 22.75″||align="right"|6.88
 * align="right"| 56||  ||PAB-42A||Paguan Is.||4° 42′ 52.07″||119° 1′ 44.04″||align="right"|3.40
 * align="right"| 57||  ||PAB-43||Alice Reef||4° 45′ 55.25″||119° 3′ 15.19″||align="right"|2.28
 * align="right"| 58||  ||PAB-44||Alice Reef||4° 47′ 5.36″||119° 5′ 12.94″||align="right"|18.60
 * align="right"| 59||  ||PAB-45||Omapoy Rk.||4° 55′ 10.45″||119° 22′ 1.30″||align="right"|23.37
 * align="right"| 60||  ||PAB-46||Bukut Lapis Pt.||5° 2′ 23.73″||119° 44′ 18.14″||align="right"|44.20
 * align="right"| 61||  ||PAB-47||Pearl Bank||5° 46′ 35.15″||119° 39′ 51.77″||align="right"|75.17
 * align="right"| 62||  ||PAB-48||Baguan Is.||6° 5′ 58.41″||118° 26′ 57.30″||align="right"|8.54
 * align="right"| 63||  ||PAB-48A||Taganak Is.||6° 4′ 14.08″||118° 18′ 33.33″||align="right"|13.46
 * align="right"| 64||  ||PAB-49||Great Bakkungaan Is.  ||6° 11′ 4.65″||118° 6′ 54.15″||align="right"|3.97
 * align="right"| 65||  ||PAB-50||Lihiman Is.||6° 13′ 39.90″||118° 3′ 52.09″||align="right"|5.53
 * align="right"| 66||  ||PAB-51||Sibaung Is.||6° 17′ 43.99″||118° 0′ 5.44″||align="right"|41.60
 * align="right"| 67||  ||PAB-52||Muligi Is.||6° 52′ 14.53″||118° 23′ 40.49″||align="right"|75.06
 * align="right"| 68||  ||PAB-53||South Mangsee Is.||7° 30′ 26.05″||117° 18′ 33.75″||align="right"|26.00
 * align="right"| 69||  ||PAB-54||Balabac Is.||7° 48′ 30.69″||116° 59′ 39.18″||align="right"|6.08
 * align="right"| 70||  ||PAB-54A||Balabac Great Reef||7° 51′ 27.17″||116° 54′ 17.19″||align="right"|1.18
 * align="right"| 71||  ||PAB-54B||Balabac Great Reef||7° 52′ 19.86″||116° 53′ 28.73″||align="right"|2.27
 * align="right"| 72||  ||PAB-55||Balabac Great Reef||7° 54′ 36.35″||116° 53′ 16.64″||align="right"|7.42
 * align="right"| 73||  ||PAB-60||Ada Reef||8° 2′ 0.26″||116° 54′ 10.04″||align="right"|10.85
 * align="right"| 74||  ||PAB-61||Secam Is.||8° 11′ 18.36″||116° 59′ 51.87″||align="right"|30.88
 * align="right"| 75||  ||PAB-62||Latud Pt.||8° 37′ 56.37″||117° 15′ 51.23″||align="right"|7.91
 * align="right"| 76||  ||PAB-63||SW Tatub Pt.||8° 44′ 17.40″||117° 20′ 39.37″||align="right"|11.89
 * align="right"| 77||  ||PAB-63A||W Sicud Pt.||8° 53′ 32.20″||117° 28′ 15.78″||align="right"|13.20
 * align="right"| 78||  ||PAB-64||Tarumpitao Pt.||9° 2′ 57.47″||117° 37′ 38.88″||align="right"|81.12
 * align="right"| 79||  ||PAB-64B||Dry Is.||9° 59′ 22.54″||118° 36′ 53.61″||align="right"|82.76
 * align="right"| 80||  ||PAB-65C||Binangcolan Pt.||11° 13′ 19.82″||119° 15′ 17.74″||align="right"|74.65
 * align="right"| 81||  ||PAB-67||Pinnacle Rk.||12° 19′ 35.22″||119° 50′ 56.00″||align="right"|93.88
 * align="right"| 82||  ||PAB-68||Cabra Is.||13° 53′ 21.45″||120° 1′ 5.86″||align="right"|115.69
 * align="right"| 83||  ||PAB-71||Hermana Mayor Is.||15° 48′ 43.61″||119° 46′ 56.09″||align="right"|9.30
 * align="right"| 84||  ||PAB-72||Tambobo Pt.||15° 57′ 51.67″||119° 44′ 55.32″||align="right"|12.06
 * align="right"| 85||  ||PAB-73B||Rena Pt.||16° 9′ 57.90″||119° 45′ 15.76″||align="right"|0.25
 * align="right"| 86||  ||PAB-73||Rena Pt.||16° 10′ 12.42″||119° 45′ 11.95||align="right"|6.43
 * align="right"| 87||  ||PAB-74||Rocky Ledge||16° 16′ 34.46″||119° 46′ 19.50″||align="right"|0.65
 * align="right"| 88||  ||PAB-74A||Piedra Pt.||16° 17′ 12.70″||119° 46′ 28.52″||align="right"|1.30
 * align="right"| 89||  ||PAB-75||Piedra Pt.||16° 18′ 29.49″||119° 46′ 44.94″||align="right"|1.04
 * align="right"| 90||  ||PAB-75C||Piedra Pt.||16° 19′ 28.20″||119° 47′ 7.69″||align="right"|0.63
 * align="right"| 91||  ||PAB-75D||Piedra Pt.||16° 20′ 4.38″||119° 47′ 20.48″||align="right"|80.60
 * align="right"| 92||  ||PAB-76||Dile Pt.||17° 34′ 24.94″||120° 20′ 33.36″||align="right"|6.86
 * align="right"| 93||  ||PAB-77||Pinget Is.||17° 41′ 17.56″||120° 21′ 2.02″||align="right"|14.15
 * align="right"|94||  ||PAB-78||Badoc Is.||17° 55′ 4.13″||120° 24′ 40.56″||align="right"|35.4
 * align="right"| 95||  ||PAB-79||Cape Bojeador||18° 29′ 32.42″||120° 33′ 42.41″||align="right"|1.77
 * align="right"|96||  ||PAB-79B||Bobon||18° 30′ 52.88″||120° 34′ 55.35″||align="right"|53.23
 * align="right"| 97||  ||PAB-80||Calagangan Pt.||19° 10′ 14.78″||121° 12′ 52.64″||align="right"|98.07
 * align="right"| 98||  ||PAB-82||Itbayat Is.||20° 43′ 15.74″  ||121° 46′ 57.80″||align="right"|25.63
 * align="right"| 99||  ||PAB-83||Amianan Is.||21° 7′ 17.47″||121° 56′ 43.85″||align="right"|0.08
 * align="right"| 100||  ||PAB-84||Amianan Is.||21° 7′ 18.41″||121° 56′ 48.79″||align="right"|0.25
 * align="right"| 101||  ||PAB-85||Amianan Is.||21° 7′ 12.04″||121° 57′ 3.65″||align="right"|0.44”
 * }
 * align="right"| 51||  ||PAB-38A||Kinapusan Is.||5° 12′ 8.70″||120° 41′ 38.14″||align="right"|55.24
 * align="right"| 52||  ||PAB-39||Manuk Manka Is.||4° 47′ 39.24″||119° 51′ 58.08″||align="right"|43.44
 * align="right"| 53||  ||PAB-40||Frances Reef||4° 24′ 53.84″||119° 14′ 50.71″||align="right"|0.61
 * align="right"| 54||  ||PAB-40A||Frances Reef||4° 25′ 3.83″||119° 14′ 15.15″||align="right"|15.48
 * align="right"| 55||  ||PAB-41A||Bajapa Reef||4° 36′ 9.01″||119° 3′ 22.75″||align="right"|6.88
 * align="right"| 56||  ||PAB-42A||Paguan Is.||4° 42′ 52.07″||119° 1′ 44.04″||align="right"|3.40
 * align="right"| 57||  ||PAB-43||Alice Reef||4° 45′ 55.25″||119° 3′ 15.19″||align="right"|2.28
 * align="right"| 58||  ||PAB-44||Alice Reef||4° 47′ 5.36″||119° 5′ 12.94″||align="right"|18.60
 * align="right"| 59||  ||PAB-45||Omapoy Rk.||4° 55′ 10.45″||119° 22′ 1.30″||align="right"|23.37
 * align="right"| 60||  ||PAB-46||Bukut Lapis Pt.||5° 2′ 23.73″||119° 44′ 18.14″||align="right"|44.20
 * align="right"| 61||  ||PAB-47||Pearl Bank||5° 46′ 35.15″||119° 39′ 51.77″||align="right"|75.17
 * align="right"| 62||  ||PAB-48||Baguan Is.||6° 5′ 58.41″||118° 26′ 57.30″||align="right"|8.54
 * align="right"| 63||  ||PAB-48A||Taganak Is.||6° 4′ 14.08″||118° 18′ 33.33″||align="right"|13.46
 * align="right"| 64||  ||PAB-49||Great Bakkungaan Is.  ||6° 11′ 4.65″||118° 6′ 54.15″||align="right"|3.97
 * align="right"| 65||  ||PAB-50||Lihiman Is.||6° 13′ 39.90″||118° 3′ 52.09″||align="right"|5.53
 * align="right"| 66||  ||PAB-51||Sibaung Is.||6° 17′ 43.99″||118° 0′ 5.44″||align="right"|41.60
 * align="right"| 67||  ||PAB-52||Muligi Is.||6° 52′ 14.53″||118° 23′ 40.49″||align="right"|75.06
 * align="right"| 68||  ||PAB-53||South Mangsee Is.||7° 30′ 26.05″||117° 18′ 33.75″||align="right"|26.00
 * align="right"| 69||  ||PAB-54||Balabac Is.||7° 48′ 30.69″||116° 59′ 39.18″||align="right"|6.08
 * align="right"| 70||  ||PAB-54A||Balabac Great Reef||7° 51′ 27.17″||116° 54′ 17.19″||align="right"|1.18
 * align="right"| 71||  ||PAB-54B||Balabac Great Reef||7° 52′ 19.86″||116° 53′ 28.73″||align="right"|2.27
 * align="right"| 72||  ||PAB-55||Balabac Great Reef||7° 54′ 36.35″||116° 53′ 16.64″||align="right"|7.42
 * align="right"| 73||  ||PAB-60||Ada Reef||8° 2′ 0.26″||116° 54′ 10.04″||align="right"|10.85
 * align="right"| 74||  ||PAB-61||Secam Is.||8° 11′ 18.36″||116° 59′ 51.87″||align="right"|30.88
 * align="right"| 75||  ||PAB-62||Latud Pt.||8° 37′ 56.37″||117° 15′ 51.23″||align="right"|7.91
 * align="right"| 76||  ||PAB-63||SW Tatub Pt.||8° 44′ 17.40″||117° 20′ 39.37″||align="right"|11.89
 * align="right"| 77||  ||PAB-63A||W Sicud Pt.||8° 53′ 32.20″||117° 28′ 15.78″||align="right"|13.20
 * align="right"| 78||  ||PAB-64||Tarumpitao Pt.||9° 2′ 57.47″||117° 37′ 38.88″||align="right"|81.12
 * align="right"| 79||  ||PAB-64B||Dry Is.||9° 59′ 22.54″||118° 36′ 53.61″||align="right"|82.76
 * align="right"| 80||  ||PAB-65C||Binangcolan Pt.||11° 13′ 19.82″||119° 15′ 17.74″||align="right"|74.65
 * align="right"| 81||  ||PAB-67||Pinnacle Rk.||12° 19′ 35.22″||119° 50′ 56.00″||align="right"|93.88
 * align="right"| 82||  ||PAB-68||Cabra Is.||13° 53′ 21.45″||120° 1′ 5.86″||align="right"|115.69
 * align="right"| 83||  ||PAB-71||Hermana Mayor Is.||15° 48′ 43.61″||119° 46′ 56.09″||align="right"|9.30
 * align="right"| 84||  ||PAB-72||Tambobo Pt.||15° 57′ 51.67″||119° 44′ 55.32″||align="right"|12.06
 * align="right"| 85||  ||PAB-73B||Rena Pt.||16° 9′ 57.90″||119° 45′ 15.76″||align="right"|0.25
 * align="right"| 86||  ||PAB-73||Rena Pt.||16° 10′ 12.42″||119° 45′ 11.95||align="right"|6.43
 * align="right"| 87||  ||PAB-74||Rocky Ledge||16° 16′ 34.46″||119° 46′ 19.50″||align="right"|0.65
 * align="right"| 88||  ||PAB-74A||Piedra Pt.||16° 17′ 12.70″||119° 46′ 28.52″||align="right"|1.30
 * align="right"| 89||  ||PAB-75||Piedra Pt.||16° 18′ 29.49″||119° 46′ 44.94″||align="right"|1.04
 * align="right"| 90||  ||PAB-75C||Piedra Pt.||16° 19′ 28.20″||119° 47′ 7.69″||align="right"|0.63
 * align="right"| 91||  ||PAB-75D||Piedra Pt.||16° 20′ 4.38″||119° 47′ 20.48″||align="right"|80.60
 * align="right"| 92||  ||PAB-76||Dile Pt.||17° 34′ 24.94″||120° 20′ 33.36″||align="right"|6.86
 * align="right"| 93||  ||PAB-77||Pinget Is.||17° 41′ 17.56″||120° 21′ 2.02″||align="right"|14.15
 * align="right"|94||  ||PAB-78||Badoc Is.||17° 55′ 4.13″||120° 24′ 40.56″||align="right"|35.4
 * align="right"| 95||  ||PAB-79||Cape Bojeador||18° 29′ 32.42″||120° 33′ 42.41″||align="right"|1.77
 * align="right"|96||  ||PAB-79B||Bobon||18° 30′ 52.88″||120° 34′ 55.35″||align="right"|53.23
 * align="right"| 97||  ||PAB-80||Calagangan Pt.||19° 10′ 14.78″||121° 12′ 52.64″||align="right"|98.07
 * align="right"| 98||  ||PAB-82||Itbayat Is.||20° 43′ 15.74″  ||121° 46′ 57.80″||align="right"|25.63
 * align="right"| 99||  ||PAB-83||Amianan Is.||21° 7′ 17.47″||121° 56′ 43.85″||align="right"|0.08
 * align="right"| 100||  ||PAB-84||Amianan Is.||21° 7′ 18.41″||121° 56′ 48.79″||align="right"|0.25
 * align="right"| 101||  ||PAB-85||Amianan Is.||21° 7′ 12.04″||121° 57′ 3.65″||align="right"|0.44”
 * }
 * align="right"| 77||  ||PAB-63A||W Sicud Pt.||8° 53′ 32.20″||117° 28′ 15.78″||align="right"|13.20
 * align="right"| 78||  ||PAB-64||Tarumpitao Pt.||9° 2′ 57.47″||117° 37′ 38.88″||align="right"|81.12
 * align="right"| 79||  ||PAB-64B||Dry Is.||9° 59′ 22.54″||118° 36′ 53.61″||align="right"|82.76
 * align="right"| 80||  ||PAB-65C||Binangcolan Pt.||11° 13′ 19.82″||119° 15′ 17.74″||align="right"|74.65
 * align="right"| 81||  ||PAB-67||Pinnacle Rk.||12° 19′ 35.22″||119° 50′ 56.00″||align="right"|93.88
 * align="right"| 82||  ||PAB-68||Cabra Is.||13° 53′ 21.45″||120° 1′ 5.86″||align="right"|115.69
 * align="right"| 83||  ||PAB-71||Hermana Mayor Is.||15° 48′ 43.61″||119° 46′ 56.09″||align="right"|9.30
 * align="right"| 84||  ||PAB-72||Tambobo Pt.||15° 57′ 51.67″||119° 44′ 55.32″||align="right"|12.06
 * align="right"| 85||  ||PAB-73B||Rena Pt.||16° 9′ 57.90″||119° 45′ 15.76″||align="right"|0.25
 * align="right"| 86||  ||PAB-73||Rena Pt.||16° 10′ 12.42″||119° 45′ 11.95||align="right"|6.43
 * align="right"| 87||  ||PAB-74||Rocky Ledge||16° 16′ 34.46″||119° 46′ 19.50″||align="right"|0.65
 * align="right"| 88||  ||PAB-74A||Piedra Pt.||16° 17′ 12.70″||119° 46′ 28.52″||align="right"|1.30
 * align="right"| 89||  ||PAB-75||Piedra Pt.||16° 18′ 29.49″||119° 46′ 44.94″||align="right"|1.04
 * align="right"| 90||  ||PAB-75C||Piedra Pt.||16° 19′ 28.20″||119° 47′ 7.69″||align="right"|0.63
 * align="right"| 91||  ||PAB-75D||Piedra Pt.||16° 20′ 4.38″||119° 47′ 20.48″||align="right"|80.60
 * align="right"| 92||  ||PAB-76||Dile Pt.||17° 34′ 24.94″||120° 20′ 33.36″||align="right"|6.86
 * align="right"| 93||  ||PAB-77||Pinget Is.||17° 41′ 17.56″||120° 21′ 2.02″||align="right"|14.15
 * align="right"|94||  ||PAB-78||Badoc Is.||17° 55′ 4.13″||120° 24′ 40.56″||align="right"|35.4
 * align="right"| 95||  ||PAB-79||Cape Bojeador||18° 29′ 32.42″||120° 33′ 42.41″||align="right"|1.77
 * align="right"|96||  ||PAB-79B||Bobon||18° 30′ 52.88″||120° 34′ 55.35″||align="right"|53.23
 * align="right"| 97||  ||PAB-80||Calagangan Pt.||19° 10′ 14.78″||121° 12′ 52.64″||align="right"|98.07
 * align="right"| 98||  ||PAB-82||Itbayat Is.||20° 43′ 15.74″  ||121° 46′ 57.80″||align="right"|25.63
 * align="right"| 99||  ||PAB-83||Amianan Is.||21° 7′ 17.47″||121° 56′ 43.85″||align="right"|0.08
 * align="right"| 100||  ||PAB-84||Amianan Is.||21° 7′ 18.41″||121° 56′ 48.79″||align="right"|0.25
 * align="right"| 101||  ||PAB-85||Amianan Is.||21° 7′ 12.04″||121° 57′ 3.65″||align="right"|0.44”
 * }
 * align="right"| 90||  ||PAB-75C||Piedra Pt.||16° 19′ 28.20″||119° 47′ 7.69″||align="right"|0.63
 * align="right"| 91||  ||PAB-75D||Piedra Pt.||16° 20′ 4.38″||119° 47′ 20.48″||align="right"|80.60
 * align="right"| 92||  ||PAB-76||Dile Pt.||17° 34′ 24.94″||120° 20′ 33.36″||align="right"|6.86
 * align="right"| 93||  ||PAB-77||Pinget Is.||17° 41′ 17.56″||120° 21′ 2.02″||align="right"|14.15
 * align="right"|94||  ||PAB-78||Badoc Is.||17° 55′ 4.13″||120° 24′ 40.56″||align="right"|35.4
 * align="right"| 95||  ||PAB-79||Cape Bojeador||18° 29′ 32.42″||120° 33′ 42.41″||align="right"|1.77
 * align="right"|96||  ||PAB-79B||Bobon||18° 30′ 52.88″||120° 34′ 55.35″||align="right"|53.23
 * align="right"| 97||  ||PAB-80||Calagangan Pt.||19° 10′ 14.78″||121° 12′ 52.64″||align="right"|98.07
 * align="right"| 98||  ||PAB-82||Itbayat Is.||20° 43′ 15.74″  ||121° 46′ 57.80″||align="right"|25.63
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 * align="right"| 100||  ||PAB-84||Amianan Is.||21° 7′ 18.41″||121° 56′ 48.79″||align="right"|0.25
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 * align="right"| 98||  ||PAB-82||Itbayat Is.||20° 43′ 15.74″  ||121° 46′ 57.80″||align="right"|25.63
 * align="right"| 99||  ||PAB-83||Amianan Is.||21° 7′ 17.47″||121° 56′ 43.85″||align="right"|0.08
 * align="right"| 100||  ||PAB-84||Amianan Is.||21° 7′ 18.41″||121° 56′ 48.79″||align="right"|0.25
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SEC. 2.
The baseline in the following areas over which the Philippines likewise exercises sovereignty and jurisdiction shall be determined as “Regime of Islands” under the Republic of the Philippines consistent with Article 121 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS):

 * a) The Kalayaan Island Group as constituted under Presidential Decree No. 1596; and

 * b) Bajo de Masinloc, also known as Scarborough Shoal.

SEC. 3.
This Act affirms that the Republic of the Philippines has dominion, sovereignty and jurisdiction over all portions of the national territory as defined in the Constitution and by provisions of applicable laws including, without limitation, Republic Act No. 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991, as amended.

SEC. 4.
This Act, together with the geographic coordinates and the charts and maps indicating the aforesaid baselines, shall be deposited and registered with the Secretary General of the United Nations.

SEC. 5.
The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) shall forthwith produce and publish charts and maps of the appropriate scale clearly representing the delineation of basepoints and baselines as set forth in this Act.

SEC. 6.
The amount necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act shall be provided in a supplemental budget or included in the General Appropriations Act of the year of its enactment into law.

SEC. 7.
If any portion or provision of this Act is declared unconstitutional or invalid, the other portions or provisions hereof which are not affected thereby shall continue to be in full force and effect.

SEC. 8.
The provisions of Republic Act No. 3046, as amended by Republic Act No. 5446, and all other laws, decrees, executive orders, rules and issuances inconsistent with this Act are hereby amended or modified accordingly.

SEC. 9.
This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days following its publication in the Official Gazette or in any two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,  This Act which which is a consolidation of Senate Bill No. 2699 and House Bill No. 3216 was finally passed by the Senate and House of Representatives on February 17, 2009. Approved: March 10, 2009  (Sgd.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL–ARROYO  President of the Philippines

title: Republic Act No. 9522


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 maintained control of himself afterward he never knew. Some powerful, kindly force asserted itself, coming to his relief with the timeliness of a genii. Gradually it began to dawn upon him that the others were waiting for him to read the message aloud. He was not sure that a sound would come forth when he opened his lips to speak, but the tones were steady, natural and as cold as steel.

"I am sorry I can't tell you about this," he said, so gravely that his hearers were silenced. "It is a business matter of such vital importance that I must ask you to excuse me for an hour or so. I will explain everything to-morrow. Please don't be uneasy. If you will do me the honor to grace the board of an absent host, I'll be most grateful. It is imperative that I go, and at once. I promise to return in an hour." He was standing, his knees as stiff as iron.

"Is it anything serious?" asked DeMille.

"What! has anything happened?" came in halting, frightened tones from Peggy.

"It concerns me alone, and it is purely of a business nature. Seriously, I can't delay going for another minute. It is vital. In an hour I'll return. Peggy, don't be worried—don't be distressed about me. Go on and have a


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 good time, everybody, and you'll find me the jolliest fellow of all when I come back. It's twelve o'clock. I'll be here by one on the 23d of September."

"Let me go with you," pleaded Peggy, tremulously, as she followed him into the hallway.

"I must go alone," he answered. "Don't worry, little woman, it will be all right."

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 Everything seemed like a dream to Brewster as he rushed off through the night to the office of Grant & Ripley. He was dazed, bewildered, hardly more than half-conscious. A bitter smile crept about his lips as he drew away from the street-car track almost as his hand touched the rail of a car he had signaled. He remembered that he did not have money enough to pay his fare. It was six or seven blocks to the office of the lawyers, and he was actually running before he stopped at the entrance of the big building.

Never had an elevator traveled more slowly than the one which shot him to the seventh floor. A light shone through the transom above the attorneys' door and he entered without so much as a rap on the panel. Grant, who was pacing the floor, came to a standstill and faced his visitor.

"Close the door, please," came in steady tones from Ripley. Mr. Grant dropped into a chair and Brewster mechanically slammed the door.


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204 Soon after Benjamin, another Jew, Petachiah of Ratisbon, set out on a similar but less extended tour, which occupied him during the years 1179 and 1180. His “Travels” are less informing than those of his immediate predecessor, but his descriptions of the real or reputed sepulchres of ancient worthies and his account of the Jewish College in Bagdad are full of romantic interest, which was not lessened for medieval readers because much of Petachiah’s narrative was legendary.

A far more important work was written by the first Jewish explorer of Palestine, Esthori Parchi, a contemporary of Mandeville. His family originated in Florenza, in Andalusia, and the family name Parchi (the Flower) was derived from this circumstance. Esthori was himself born in Provence, and was a student of science as well as of the Talmud. When he, together with the rest of the Jews of France, was exiled in 1306, he wandered to Spain and


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 "Is it true?" he demanded hoarsely, his hand still on the knob.

"Sit down, Brewster, and control yourself," said Ripley.

"Good God, man, can't you see I am calm?" cried Monty. "Go on—tell me all about it. What do you know? What have you heard?"

"He cannot be found, that's all," announced Ripley, with deadly intentness. "I don't know what it means. There is no explanation. The whole thing is inconceivable. Sit down and I will tell you everything as quickly as possible."

"There isn't much to tell," said Grant, mechanically.

"I can take it better standing," declared Brewster, shutting his jaws tightly.

"Jones was last seen in Butte on the third of this month," said Ripley. "We sent several telegrams to him after that day, asking when he expected to leave for New York. They never were claimed and the telegraph company reported that he could not be found. We thought he might have gone off to look after some of his property and were not uneasy. Finally we began to wonder why he had not wired us on leaving for the east. I telegraphed him again and got no answer. It dawned


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 upon us that this was something unusual. We wired his secretary and received a response from the chief of police. He asked, in turn, if we could tell him anything about the whereabouts of Jones. This naturally alarmed us and yesterday we kept the wires hot. The result of our inquiries is terrible, Mr. Brewster."

"Why didn't you tell me?" asked Brewster.

"There can be no doubt that Jones has fled, accompanied by his secretary. The belief in Butte is that the secretary has murdered him."

"God!" was the only sound that came from the lips of Brewster.

Ripley moistened his lips and went on

"We have dispatches here from the police, the banks, the trust companies and from a half dozen mine managers. You may read them if you like, but I can tell you what they say. About the first of this month Jones began to turn various securities into money. It is now known that they were once the property of James T. Sedgwick, held in trust for you. The safety deposit vaults were afterward visited and inspection shows that he removed every scrap of stock, every bond, everything of value that he could lay his hands upon. His own papers and effects were not disturbed. Yours alone have disappeared. It is this fact that


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 convinces the authorities that the secretary has made away with the old man and has fled with the property. The bank people say that Jones drew out every dollar of the Sedgwick money, and the police say that he realized tremendous sums on the convertible securities. The strange part of it is that he sold your mines and your real estate, the purchaser being a man named Golden. Brewster, it—it looks very much as if he had disappeared with everything."

Brewster did not take his eyes from Ripley's face throughout the terrible speech; he did not move a fraction of an inch from the rigid position assumed at the beginning.

"Is anything being done?" he asked, mechanically.

"The police are investigating. He is known to have started off into the mountains with this secretary on the third of September. Neither has been seen since that day, so far as any one knows. The earth seems to have swallowed them. The authorities are searching the mountains and are making every effort to find Jones or his body. He is known to be eccentric and at first not much importance was attached to his actions. That is all we can tell you at present. There may be developments to


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 morrow. It looks bad—terribly bad. We—we had the utmost confidence in Jones. My God, I wish I could help you, my boy."

"I don't blame you, gentlemen," said Brewster, bravely. "It's just my luck, that's all. Something told me all along that—that it wouldn't turn out right. I wasn't looking for this kind of end, though. My only fear was that—Jones wouldn't consider me worthy to receive the fortune. It never occurred to me that he might prove to be the—the unworthy one."

"I will take you a little farther into our confidence, Brewster," said Grant, slowly. "Mr. Jones notified us at the beginning that he would be governed largely in his decision by our opinion of your conduct. That is why we felt no hesitation in advising you to continue as you were going. While you were off at sea, we had many letters from him, all in that sarcastic vein of his, but in none of them did he offer a word of criticism. He seemed thoroughly satisfied with your methods. In fact, he once said he'd give a million of his own money if it would purchase your ability to spend one-fourth of it."

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 know," said Brewster, bitterly. His color was gradually coming back. "What do they know about the secretary?" he asked, suddenly, intent and alive.

"He was a new one, I understand, who came to Jones less than a year ago. Jones is said to have had implicit faith in him," said Ripley.

"And he disappeared at the same time?"

"They were last seen together."

"Then he has put an end to Jones!" cried Monty, excitedly. "It is as plain as day to me. Don't you see that he exerted some sort of influence over the old man, inducing him to get all this money together on some pretext or other, solely for the purpose of robbing him of the whole amount? Was ever anything more diabolical?" He began pacing the floor like an animal, nervously clasping and unclasping his hands. "We must catch that secretary! I don't believe Jones was dishonest. He has been duped by a clever scoundrel."

"The strangest circumstance of all, Mr. Brewster, is that no such person as Golden, the purchaser of your properties, can be found. He is supposed to reside in Omaha, and it is known that he paid nearly three million dollars for the property that now stands in his name. He paid it to Mr. Jones in cash, too,


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Rh Egypt until the attraction of the Holy Land proved irresistible. His manner was careful, and his love of accuracy unusual for his day. Hence, he was not content to collect all ancient and contemporary references to the sites of Palestine. For seven years he devoted himself to a personal exploration of the country, two years being passed in Galilee. In 1322 he completed his work, which he called Kaphtor va-Pherach (Bunch and Flower) in allusion to his own name.

Access to the Holy Land became easier for Jews in the fourteenth century. Before that time the city of Jerusalem had for a considerable period been barred to Jewish pilgrims. By the laws of Constantine and of Omar no Jew might enter within the precincts of his ancient capital. Even in the centuries subsequent to Omar, such pilgrimages were fraught with danger, but the poems of Jehuda Halevi, the tolerance of Islam, and the reputation of Northern


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 and he paid every cent that the property is worth."

"But he must be in existence somewhere," cried Brewster, in perplexity. "How the devil could he pay the money if he doesn't exist?"

"I only know that no trace of the man can be found. They know nothing of him in Omaha," said Grant, helplessly.

"So it has finally happened," said Brewster, but his excitement had dropped. "Well," he added, throwing himself into a deep chair, "it was always much too strange to be true. Even at the beginning it seemed like a dream, and now—well, now I am just awake, like the little boy after the fairy-tale. I seem like a fool to have taken it so seriously."

"There was no other way," protested Ripley, "you were quite right."

"Well, after all," continued Brewster, and the voice was as of one in a dream, "perhaps it's as well to have been in Wonderland even if you have to come down afterward to the ordinary world. I am foolish, perhaps, but even now I would not give it up." Then the thought of Peggy clutched him by the throat, and he stopped. After a moment he gathered himself together and rose. "Gentlemen," he said sharply, and his voice had changed; "I


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206 Syria as a centre of the Kabbala, combined to draw many Jews to Palestine. Many letters and narratives were the results. One characteristic specimen must suffice. In 1488 Obadiah of Bertinoro, author of the most popular commentary on the Mishnah, removed from Italy to Jerusalem, where he was appointed Rabbi. In a letter to his father he gives an intensely moving account of his voyage and of the state of Hebron and Zion. The narrative is full of personal detail, and is marked throughout by deep love for his father, which struggles for the mastery with his love for the Holy City.

A more ambitious work was the “Itinera Mundi” of Abraham Farissol, written in the autumn of 1524. This treatise was based upon original researches as well as on the works of Christian and Arabian geographers. He incidentally says a good deal about the condition of the Jews in various parts of the world. Indeed, al-


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Rh most all the geographical writings of Jews are social histories of their brethren in faith. Somewhat later, David Reubeni published some strange stories as to the Jews. He went to Rome, where he made a considerable sensation, and was received by Pope Clement VII (1523-1534). Dwarfish in stature and dark in complexion, David Reubeni was wasted by continual fasting, but his manner, though harsh and forbidding, was intrepid and awe-inspiring. His outrageous falsehoods for a time found ready acceptance with Jews and Christians alike, and his fervid Messianism won over to his cause many Marranos—Jews who had been forced by the Inquisition in Spain to assume the external garb of Christianity. His chief claim on the memory of posterity was his connection with the dramatic career of Solomon Molcho (1501-1532), a youth noble in mind and body, who at Reubeni’s instigation personated the Messiah, and in early manhood died a martyr’s