The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 45, 1736 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

Act 136, enacted by the Philippine Commission June 11, 1901, and in

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effect since June 16, 1901, provides for the organization of courts in the Philippines. Article 38 of that act reads as follows: "All records, books, papers, causes, actions, proceedings and appeals lodged, deposited, or pending in the existing Audiencia or Supreme Court, or pending by appeal before the Spanish tribunal called 'Contencioso administrativo' are transferred to the Supreme Court above provided for, which has the same power and jurisdiction over them as if they had been in the first instance lodged, filed or pending therein, or, in case of appeal, appealed thereto." See Public Laws and Resolutions of the U. S. Philippine Commission, for quarter ending August 31, 1901.