An Act Amending Act Numbered Forty-Nine, Providing for the Establishment of a Civil Government for the Province of Benguet, and Act Numbered One Thousand and Forty-Nine, Making Appropriations for the Sundry Expenses of the Insular Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Four, and Other Designated Periods, by Providing that the Disbursing Officer of the Civil Sanitarium at Baguio, Benguet, shall Act as Treasurer for the Province of Benguet, and by Striking Out the Provision that the Clerk of Class Nine of the Civil Sanitarium shall be a Dispensing Clerk

March 10, 1904

ACT NO. 1081

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED FORTY-NINE, PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CIVIL GOVERNMENT FOR THE PROVINCE OF BENGUET, AND ACT NUMBERED ONE THOUSAND AND FORTY-NINE, MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SUNDRY EXPENSES OF THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FOUR, AND OTHER DESIGNATED PERIODS, BY PROVIDING THAT THE DISBURSING OFFICER OF THE CIVIL SANITARIUM AT BAGUIO, BENGUET, SHALL ACT AS TREASURER FOR THE PROVINCE OF BENGUET, AND BY STRIKING OUT THE PROVISION THAT THE CLERK OF CLASS NINE OF THE CIVIL SANITARIUM SHALL BE A DISPENSING CLERK

SECTION 1. Section nine of Act Numbered Forty-nine, entitled "An Act providing for the establishment of a civil government for the Province of Benguet," is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 9. Until such time as a treasurer shall be appointed for the province, the disbursing officer of the civil sanitarium at Baguio, Benguet, shall act as provincial treasurer, subject to the provisions of general law. The governor shall audit the monthly accounts of the several townships, and shall cause investigation to be made should he find reason to believe that the finances of any township are dishonestly or negligently administered. Should such investigation reveal ground for action, he shall cause proceedings to be instituted against the offending person or persons."

SECTION 2. Section one of Act Numbered One thousand and forty-nine, entitled "An Act making appropriations for sundry expenses of the Insular Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and other designated periods," is hereby amended by striking out the word "dispensing" in the third line of the first paragraph under the heading "Civil Sanitarium, Benguet," so that the paragraph shall read as follows:

"Salaries and Wages, Civil Sanitarium, Benguet, nineteen hundred and four: Attending physician and surgeon, at two thousand four hundred dollars per annum; one clerk, class nine; one nurse and housekeeper, Class A; one nurse, Class C; two employees, Class D, one being for three months only; one employee, Class F; one employee, Class J; one employee, at one hundred and eighty dollars per annum; three employees, at ninety-six dollars per annum each; two employees, at sixty dollars per annum each; for hire of emergency laborers, not to exceed four hundred pesos; six thousand pesos."

SECTION 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. aScITE

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, March 10, 1904.