department and b e instructed and trained in the duties and work of firemen by its officers under the direction and supervision of the township president, with such assistance as he may require from the councilors. 

## ARTICLE XI 

Celebration of Fiestas 

S ECTION 2342 . Celebration of Fiesta. — A fiesta may be held in each township not oftener than once a year upon a date fixed by the township council, and upon no other date, except when for weighty reasons, such as typhoons, inundations, earthquakes, epidem ics, or other public calamities the fiesta cannot be held on the date fixed, in which case it may be held at a later date in the same year, by resolution of the council. 

[1397-38 (j) .] 

S ECTION 2343 . Changing Date of Fiesta. — A township council may, by resolution passed by two-thirds of all the members of the council, change the fixed date for the celebration of the fiesta; but when the date has been once fixed by the council, it shall n ot be changed with greater frequency than once in five years. 

[1397-38 (j) .] 

S ECTION 2344 . Fixing Date of Fiesta. — In fixing or changing the date of the fiesta, the township council shall give preference to a date which, by reason of an important event in the history of the township, the province, the Philippine Islands, or the Un ited States, may be worthy of being so commemorated. 

[1397-38 (j) .] 

S ECTION 2345 . Restriction Upon Cockfighting. — Cockfighting shall take place only in authorized cockpits and only upon legal holidays and for a period of not exceeding three days during the celebration of the local fiesta. No card game or game of chance of any kind shall be permitted on the premises of the cockpit. SDATEc 

[1397-38 (j) .] 

Township Revenue in General 

## ARTICLE XII 

S ECTION 2346 . Fundamental Principles of Taxation. — Township revenue obtainable by taxation shall be derived from such sources only as are 

