An Act Creating Additional Positions in the Bureau of Agriculture and Making Provision for the Payment of the Salaries of the Positions so Created
Act No. 649, enacted on March 3, 1903, establishes additional positions within the Bureau of Agriculture for the agricultural school and experiment station "La Granja Modelo" in Negros. It authorizes the appointment of a farm manager, a farm foreman, two native foremen, and up to seventy-five farm laborers, specifying their respective salaries. The funding for these positions is provided from previously allocated funds. The act emphasizes the urgency for its passage for the public good and takes effect immediately upon enactment.
Law Information
- Reference Number
- Act No. 649
- Date Enacted
- Category
- Statutes
- Subcategory
- Acts
- Jurisdiction
- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
March 3, 1903
ACT NO. 649
AN ACT CREATING ADDITIONAL POSITIONS IN THE BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE AND MAKING PROVISION FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE SALARIES OF THE POSITIONS SO CREATED
SECTION 1. The Chief of the Bureau of Agriculture is hereby authorized to appoint the following officials and employees for the agricultural school and experiment station now known as "La Granja Modelo," on the Island of Negros: One farm manager at a salary not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars, United States currency, per annum; one farm foreman at a salary not to exceed eight hundred dollars, United States currency, per annum; two native foremen at a salary not to exceed two dollars, local currency, each, per day; and such farm laborers as may be required from time to time, not to exceed an aggregate number of seventy-five, at a salary not to exceed fifty cents, local currency, each, per day.
SECTION 2. The payment of the salaries of the positions herein created is hereby authorized out of the funds appropriated in section eleven of Act Numbered Five hundred and twelve.
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 3, 1903.
Cite This Law
An Act Creating Additional Positions in the Bureau of Agriculture and Making Provision for the Payment of the Salaries of the Positions so Created, Act No. 649, Mar 3, 1903 (Philippines)
An Act Creating Additional Positions in the Bureau of Agriculture and Making Provision for the Payment of the Salaries of the Positions so Created, Act No. 649 (Phil. 1903)
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