An Act Amending Act Numbered Six Hundred and Nineteen Entitled "An Act to Promote Good Order and Discipline in the Philippines Constabulary"

September 11, 1903

ACT NO. 884

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED SIX HUNDRED AND NINETEEN ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROMOTE GOOD ORDER AND DISCIPLINE IN THE PHILIPPINES CONSTABULARY"

SECTION 1. Section fourteen of Act Numbered Six hundred and nineteen, entitled "An Act to promote good order and discipline in the Philippines Constabulary," is hereby amended as follows:

(a) By inserting after the word "Constabulary" at the end of the second line thereof the words "and deposited with the Insular Treasurer."

(b) By striking out that part of said section which reads as follows:

"Such deductions and retentions shall be noted on the pay roll, and the constabulary officer by whom any member of the Constabulary is paid shall pay such member only the net amount due, the same being his total pay less such retentions, deductions, and forfeitures which may have been made pursuant to the provisions of this Act. Each Constabulary officer shall keep a record in duplicate of all such deductions and retentions, showing the amount thereof and the name of the member of the Constabulary, and shall forward one copy to the Chief of Constabulary and the other copy to the Auditor for the Islands at the end of each month. The amount of these deductions and retentions shall be deposited in the Insular Treasury by settlement warrant pursuant to certification of the Auditor as the accounts in which such deductions and retentions have been made are audited and settled."

(c) By inserting at the conclusion of said section fourteen the following paragraph:

"All deductions, retentions, and forfeitures provided in sections eleven and fourteen of this Act shall be noted on the pay roll, and the Constabulary officer by whom any member of the Constabulary is paid shall, before making payment, verify the amount to be deducted in each case and shall, upon making payment, deduct such amount from the total amount due said member. All amounts so deducted shall be deposited with the Insular Treasurer, as depository of trust funds, by the officer making the deduction, and by a special receipts account therefor shall be rendered monthly by the disbursing officer to the Auditor for the Islands."

SECTION 2. 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 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, September 11, 1903.