An Act Providing for Additional Employees in the Office of the Collector of Customs for the Philippine Archipelago
Act No. 713, enacted on March 31, 1903, establishes additional personnel for the Office of the Collector of Customs in the Philippine Archipelago. It authorizes the hiring of a superintendent and assistant superintendent for the semaphore station, along with two messengers, and allocates $119.50 for their salaries for March 1903. The act also downgrades the position of harbormaster from class three to class five. It emphasizes the urgency of the legislation and stipulates that it takes effect retroactively from March 1, 1903.
Law Information
- Reference Number
- Act No. 713
- Date Enacted
- Category
- Statutes
- Subcategory
- Acts
- Jurisdiction
- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
March 31, 1903
ACT NO. 713
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEES IN THE OFFICE OF THE COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS FOR THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO
SECTION 1. The following employees are hereby authorized in the office of the Collector of Customs for the Philippine Archipelago, at Manila: One superintendent of semaphore station, Class D, at fifty-two dollars and fifty cents per month; one assistant superintendent of Semaphore station, Class G; two messengers, Class K, at sixteen dollars per month.
SECTION 2. The sum of one hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty cents, United States currency, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the salaries of said employees for the month of March, nineteen hundred and three.
SECTION 3. The position of harbormaster, class three, is hereby reduced to harbormaster, class five.
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 from the first day of March, nineteen hundred and three.
ENACTED, March 31, 1903.
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An Act Providing for Additional Employees in the Office of the Collector of Customs for the Philippine Archipelago, Act No. 713, Mar 31, 1903 (Philippines)
An Act Providing for Additional Employees in the Office of the Collector of Customs for the Philippine Archipelago, Act No. 713 (Phil. 1903)
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