An Act Authorizing the Employment of School-Teachers as Third and Fourth Class Observers for the Philippine Weather Bureau, Under Certain Circumstances
Act No. 661, enacted on March 5, 1903, authorizes the employment of public school teachers as third and fourth class observers for the Philippine Weather Bureau in municipalities where suitable candidates are unavailable. Appointments can only be made if the teachers' regular duties are not disrupted, with the Secretary of Public Instruction having the authority to intervene if necessary. Teachers appointed under this act will receive additional compensation as observers without affecting their teaching salaries. The act also retroactively validates the appointment of two specific individuals who served as observers. The law was expedited due to the public good and took effect immediately upon passage.
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- What is An Act Authorizing the Employment of School-Teachers as Third and Fourth Class Observers for the Philippine Weather Bureau, Under Certain Circumstances about?
- Act No. 661, enacted on March 5, 1903, authorizes the employment of public school teachers as third and fourth class observers for the Philippine Weather Bureau in municipalities where suitable candidates are unavailable. Appointments can only be made if the teachers' regular duties are not disrupted, with the Secretary of Public Instruction having the authority to intervene if necessary. Teachers appointed under this act will receive additional compensation as observers without affecting their teaching salaries. The act also retroactively validates the appointment of two specific individuals who served as observers. The law was expedited due to the public good and took effect immediately upon passage.
- What type of law is Act No. 661?
- An Act Authorizing the Employment of School-Teachers as Third and Fourth Class Observers for the Philippine Weather Bureau, Under Certain Circumstances (Act No. 661) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
- When was An Act Authorizing the Employment of School-Teachers as Third and Fourth Class Observers for the Philippine Weather Bureau, Under Certain Circumstances enacted?
- An Act Authorizing the Employment of School-Teachers as Third and Fourth Class Observers for the Philippine Weather Bureau, Under Certain Circumstances (Act No. 661) was enacted on Mar 5, 1903.
- What is the citation for An Act Authorizing the Employment of School-Teachers as Third and Fourth Class Observers for the Philippine Weather Bureau, Under Certain Circumstances?
- An Act Authorizing the Employment of School-Teachers as Third and Fourth Class Observers for the Philippine Weather Bureau, Under Certain Circumstances, Act No. 661, Mar 5, 1903 (Philippines)
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- Congress of the Philippines
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March 5, 1903
ACT NO. 661
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE EMPLOYMENT OF SCHOOL-TEACHERS AS THIRD AND FOURTH CLASS OBSERVERS FOR THE PHILIPPINE WEATHER BUREAU, UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES
SECTION 1. In municipalities where third and fourth class stations of the Philippine Weather Bureau are established, and where other suitable persons are not available for appointment as observers, the Director of the Philippine Weather Bureau is authorized in his discretion to appoint public school-teachers as third or fourth class observers of the Weather Bureau: Provided, however, That such appointment shall not be made where service in the Weather Bureau shall interfere with the regular duties of such teachers, and the Secretary of Public Instruction is hereby authorized, whenever in his judgment there is such interference, to withhold his consent to further service by such teachers under this section, and thereafter such service shall cease. Persons so appointed are hereby authorized to receive the regular salaries of third or fourth class observers of the Weather Bureau in addition to the compensation which they receive as teachers, the provisions of Act Numbered One hundred and forty-eight to the contrary notwithstanding.
SECTION 2. This Act shall be retroactive so far as concerns the appointment of C.C. Brown, of Borongan, Samar, and Charles Stone, of Cuyo, Cuyo, and the payment of the salary of a fourth-class observer to each of these gentlemen for the period during which he has actually served as a fourth-class observer is hereby authorized.
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.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
ENACTED, March 5, 1903.
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An Act Authorizing the Employment of School-Teachers as Third and Fourth Class Observers for the Philippine Weather Bureau, Under Certain Circumstances, Act No. 661, Mar 5, 1903 (Philippines)
An Act Authorizing the Employment of School-Teachers as Third and Fourth Class Observers for the Philippine Weather Bureau, Under Certain Circumstances, Act No. 661 (Phil. 1903)
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