An Act Organizing the Office of the Insular Purchasing Agent
Act No. 254, enacted on October 2, 1901, establishes the Office of the Insular Purchasing Agent in the Philippines. It authorizes the hiring of various staff members, including an Assistant Insular Purchasing Agent and multiple clerks across different classifications, as well as laborers and teamsters as needed. The Act also allows for the employment of personnel in the Printing Department until a Government Printing Plant is established. Due to the urgency for public good, the Act was expedited for passage and took effect retroactively on October 1, 1901.
Law Information
- Reference Number
- Act No. 254
- Date Enacted
- Category
- Statutes
- Subcategory
- Acts
- Jurisdiction
- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
October 2, 1901
ACT NO. 254
AN ACT ORGANIZING THE OFFICE OF THE INSULAR PURCHASING AGENT
SECTION 1. The Insular Purchasing Agent is authorized to employ the following force in his office: One Assistant Insular Purchasing Agent, class four; five clerks, class six; two clerks, class seven, one clerk, class eight; seven clerks, class nine; two clerks, class ten; two clerks, Class A; four watchmen, Class C; one clerk, Class D; two clerks, Class H; six laborers, at one hundred and eighty dollars per annum each, and such teamsters, drivers, stablemen, blacksmiths, and additional laborers as may from time to time be necessary. HESIcT
SECTION 2. The Insular Purchasing Agent is authorized to employ the following force in the Printing Department until the establishment of the Government Printing Plant: One foreman class nine; one compositor, class ten; one printer and bookbinder, Class A; one pressman, Class A; and such typesetters and laborers as may from time to time be necessary.
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 as of October first, nineteen hundred and one.
ENACTED, October 2, 1901.
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An Act Organizing the Office of the Insular Purchasing Agent, Act No. 254, Oct 2, 1901 (Philippines)
An Act Organizing the Office of the Insular Purchasing Agent, Act No. 254 (Phil. 1901)
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