An Act Amending Act Numbered Three Hundred and Ninety so as to Authorize the Payment of the Traveling Expenses of Certain Officials and Employees of Courts of First Instance when Sessions are Held at Other Places than those Fixed for Regular Sessions
Act No. 442, enacted on August 6, 1902, amends a previous law to authorize the payment of traveling and subsistence expenses for certain officials and employees of Courts of First Instance when special sessions are held at locations other than the designated sites. It specifies that expenses for clerks, stenographers, and interpreters, if necessary, will be covered up to a daily limit of one dollar. The act is retroactive, applying to a special session held in January 1902 in Jimenez, Misamis. The compensation amounts must be certified by the presiding judge of the special session. The act emphasizes the need for rapid implementation for public benefit.
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- What is An Act Amending Act Numbered Three Hundred and Ninety so as to Authorize the Payment of the Traveling Expenses of Certain Officials and Employees of Courts of First Instance when Sessions are Held at Other Places than those Fixed for Regular Sessions about?
- Act No. 442, enacted on August 6, 1902, amends a previous law to authorize the payment of traveling and subsistence expenses for certain officials and employees of Courts of First Instance when special sessions are held at locations other than the designated sites. It specifies that expenses for clerks, stenographers, and interpreters, if necessary, will be covered up to a daily limit of one dollar. The act is retroactive, applying to a special session held in January 1902 in Jimenez, Misamis. The compensation amounts must be certified by the presiding judge of the special session. The act emphasizes the need for rapid implementation for public benefit.
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- An Act Amending Act Numbered Three Hundred and Ninety so as to Authorize the Payment of the Traveling Expenses of Certain Officials and Employees of Courts of First Instance when Sessions are Held at Other Places than those Fixed for Regular Sessions (Act No. 442) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
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- An Act Amending Act Numbered Three Hundred and Ninety so as to Authorize the Payment of the Traveling Expenses of Certain Officials and Employees of Courts of First Instance when Sessions are Held at Other Places than those Fixed for Regular Sessions (Act No. 442) was enacted on Aug 6, 1902.
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- An Act Amending Act Numbered Three Hundred and Ninety so as to Authorize the Payment of the Traveling Expenses of Certain Officials and Employees of Courts of First Instance when Sessions are Held at Other Places than those Fixed for Regular Sessions, Act No. 442, Aug 6, 1902 (Philippines)
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- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
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August 6, 1902
ACT NO. 442
AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE PAYMENT OF THE TRAVELING EXPENSES OF CERTAIN OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE WHEN SESSIONS ARE HELD AT OTHER PLACES THAN THOSE FIXED FOR REGULAR SESSIONS
SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Three hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act amending Act Numbered One hundred and forty so as to authorize judges of Courts of First Instance to hold special terms of their several courts at places within their respective districts other than those fixed in said Act," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:
"In case special terms are held at other places within the several districts created by Act Numbered One hundred and forty, as provided in this section, the actual and necessary traveling expenses and subsistence expenses, the latter not to exceed one dollar, local currency, per day, of the clerk, escribiente, stenographer, and interpreter, if such employees are necessary, shall be paid in the same manner as are the other expenses of the Department of Justice."
SECTION 2. The provisions of section one shall be held retroactive, so as to apply to the special session of the Court of First Instance for the Thirteenth Judicial District, held at Jimenez, in the Province of Misamis, in January, nineteen hundred and two, by direction of the Commission.
SECTION 3. The names of the persons entitled to such compensation, and the amount of the compensation, shall be certified to by the judge who presided at the special session.
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, August 6, 1902.
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An Act Amending Act Numbered Three Hundred and Ninety so as to Authorize the Payment of the Traveling Expenses of Certain Officials and Employees of Courts of First Instance when Sessions are Held at Other Places than those Fixed for Regular Sessions, Act No. 442, Aug 6, 1902 (Philippines)
An Act Amending Act Numbered Three Hundred and Ninety so as to Authorize the Payment of the Traveling Expenses of Certain Officials and Employees of Courts of First Instance when Sessions are Held at Other Places than those Fixed for Regular Sessions, Act No. 442 (Phil. 1902)
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