The third member is elected.

As the Filipinos usually elect to office men from among their own people, practically all of the elective provincial officers are Filipinos, as are ten of the appointive officers, it having been the policy to appoint Filipinos whenever possible.
Regularly organized provinces are divided into municipalities which elect their own officers and control their own affairs for the most part.

Provincial treasurers have intervention in municipal expenditures, which are approved in advance for each fiscal year, and municipal officers may be removed for misconduct by the governor-general.
All officers of the six special government provinces are appointed by the governor-general with the approval of the commission.
There are four regularly organized municipalities in these provinces, but the remainder of their territory is divided into townships, which elect their own officers, except their secretary-treasurers, who are appointed by the provincial governor; and into _rancherias_ or settlements, with all of their officials appointed by the provincial governor.

This latter form of local government is confined to the more primitive wild people.
The judiciary is independent.

The details of its organization will be found in Chapter XV.
Three of the seven justices of the supreme court, including the chief justice, are Filipinos, as are approximately half of the judges of the courts of first instance and practically all justices of the peace.
At the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, 71 per cent of the employees in the classified civil service of the islands were Filipinos painstakingly trained for the positions to which they had been appointed.
Prior to the American occupation, the Filipinos had practically no intervention in the government of their country.
The changes introduced in the twelve years since the establishment of civil government began are of a sweeping and radical nature.