An Act Amending Act Numbered One Hundred and Seventy-Five and Providing for the Appointment and Extra Compensation of Constabulary Supply Officers
Act No. 369, enacted on March 6, 1902, amends previous legislation regarding the Philippines Constabulary by establishing the role of Constabulary supply officers. These officers, designated by the Chief of the Constabulary, will manage branch supply stores and be accountable for public civil funds and property in their respective provinces. Each supply officer must provide a bond and submit required financial reports, receiving an additional annual compensation of $200. The Act also retroactively validates appointments made since February 15, 1902, and emphasizes the urgency of its enactment.
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- What is An Act Amending Act Numbered One Hundred and Seventy-Five and Providing for the Appointment and Extra Compensation of Constabulary Supply Officers about?
- Act No. 369, enacted on March 6, 1902, amends previous legislation regarding the Philippines Constabulary by establishing the role of Constabulary supply officers. These officers, designated by the Chief of the Constabulary, will manage branch supply stores and be accountable for public civil funds and property in their respective provinces. Each supply officer must provide a bond and submit required financial reports, receiving an additional annual compensation of $200. The Act also retroactively validates appointments made since February 15, 1902, and emphasizes the urgency of its enactment.
- What type of law is Act No. 369?
- An Act Amending Act Numbered One Hundred and Seventy-Five and Providing for the Appointment and Extra Compensation of Constabulary Supply Officers (Act No. 369) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
- What is the citation for An Act Amending Act Numbered One Hundred and Seventy-Five and Providing for the Appointment and Extra Compensation of Constabulary Supply Officers?
- An Act Amending Act Numbered One Hundred and Seventy-Five and Providing for the Appointment and Extra Compensation of Constabulary Supply Officers, Act No. 369 (Philippines)
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- Act No. 369
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- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
March 6, 1902
ACT NO. 369
AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE AND PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT AND EXTRA COMPENSATION OF CONSTABULARY SUPPLY OFFICERS
SECTION 1. The Chief of Philippines Constabulary is hereby authorized to designate one inspector in each province or group of provinces; to take charge of the branch supply store, and to requisition for, receipt for, disburse, issue, and be responsible and accountable for all public civil funds and property for the use or under the control of the members of the Philippines Constabulary, in the province or group of provinces in which such inspector is designated. The provincial inspectors so designated shall be known as Constabulary supply officers.
SECTION 2. Each Constabulary supply officer shall be required to give a bond in an amount to be determined by the Civil Governor of the Islands, with satisfactory surety, and to render the required accounts, returns, reports, statements, inventories, and vouchers to the proper insular officers for all public civil funds and property invoiced or transferred to him or which shall come into his hands. The accountability and responsibility of each Constabulary supply officer for such funds and property shall be fixed and regulated by existing laws and the rules and regulations established from time to time by or with the approval of the Auditor for the Philippine Islands. Each Constabulary officer shall receive, in compensation for his services as supply officer, the sum of two hundred dollars per annum in addition to his salary as inspector.
SECTION 3. This Act shall be retroactive and all appointments of supply officers since February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and two, are hereby validated.
SECTION 4. 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.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
ENACTED, March 6, 1902.
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An Act Amending Act Numbered One Hundred and Seventy-Five and Providing for the Appointment and Extra Compensation of Constabulary Supply Officers, Act No. 369 (Philippines)
An Act Amending Act Numbered One Hundred and Seventy-Five and Providing for the Appointment and Extra Compensation of Constabulary Supply Officers, Act No. 369 (Phil. )
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