An Act Providing that One Fiscal shall Perform the Duties of Fiscal for the Provinces of Bulacan and Bataan, Repealing the Provisions of Law Authorizing a Separate Fiscal for Each of Said Provinces, Fixing the Salary of the Fiscal for the Two Provinces, Making Provision for Traveling Expenses for Such Fiscal, and Changing the Time of Holding the Court of First Instance for the Province of Bataan from the First Tuesday of October to the First Tuesday of December of Each Year
Act No. 1437, enacted on January 11, 1906, consolidates the fiscal duties of the provinces of Bulacan and Bataan under a single fiscal officer, whose annual salary is set at three thousand pesos. The fiscal will reside in Malolos, Bulacan, with travel and clerical expenses shared between the two provinces. This act abolishes the separate fiscal offices previously authorized for each province and adjusts the court schedule for Bataan, moving it to the first Tuesday of December. The law emphasizes the need for prompt implementation for the public good and took effect on January 15, 1906.
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- Act No. 1437, enacted on January 11, 1906, consolidates the fiscal duties of the provinces of Bulacan and Bataan under a single fiscal officer, whose annual salary is set at three thousand pesos. The fiscal will reside in Malolos, Bulacan, with travel and clerical expenses shared between the two provinces. This act abolishes the separate fiscal offices previously authorized for each province and adjusts the court schedule for Bataan, moving it to the first Tuesday of December. The law emphasizes the need for prompt implementation for the public good and took effect on January 15, 1906.
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- An Act Providing that One Fiscal shall Perform the Duties of Fiscal for the Provinces of Bulacan and Bataan, Repealing the Provisions of Law Authorizing a Separate Fiscal for Each of Said Provinces, Fixing the Salary of the Fiscal for the Two Provinces, Making Provision for Traveling Expenses for Such Fiscal, and Changing the Time of Holding the Court of First Instance for the Province of Bataan from the First Tuesday of October to the First Tuesday of December of Each Year (Act No. 1437) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
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- An Act Providing that One Fiscal shall Perform the Duties of Fiscal for the Provinces of Bulacan and Bataan, Repealing the Provisions of Law Authorizing a Separate Fiscal for Each of Said Provinces, Fixing the Salary of the Fiscal for the Two Provinces, Making Provision for Traveling Expenses for Such Fiscal, and Changing the Time of Holding the Court of First Instance for the Province of Bataan from the First Tuesday of October to the First Tuesday of December of Each Year (Act No. 1437) was enacted on Jan 11, 1906.
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- An Act Providing that One Fiscal shall Perform the Duties of Fiscal for the Provinces of Bulacan and Bataan, Repealing the Provisions of Law Authorizing a Separate Fiscal for Each of Said Provinces, Fixing the Salary of the Fiscal for the Two Provinces, Making Provision for Traveling Expenses for Such Fiscal, and Changing the Time of Holding the Court of First Instance for the Province of Bataan from the First Tuesday of October to the First Tuesday of December of Each Year, Act No. 1437, Jan 11, 1906 (Philippines)
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January 11, 1906
ACT NO. 1437
AN ACT PROVIDING THAT ONE FISCAL SHALL PERFORM THE DUTIES OF FISCAL FOR THE PROVINCES OF BULACAN AND BATAAN, REPEALING THE PROVISIONS OF LAW AUTHORIZING A SEPARATE FISCAL FOR EACH OF SAID PROVINCES, FIXING THE SALARY OF THE FISCAL FOR THE TWO PROVINCES, MAKING PROVISION FOR TRAVELING EXPENSES FOR SUCH FISCAL, AND CHANGING THE TIME OF HOLDING THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE FOR THE PROVINCE OF BATAAN FROM THE FIRST TUESDAY OF OCTOBER TO THE FIRST TUESDAY OF DECEMBER OF EACH YEAR
SECTION 1. The duties of fiscal for the Provinces of Bulacan and Bataan hereafter shall be performed by one fiscal whose salary shall be three thousand pesos per annum, of which two thousand two hundred pesos shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Bulacan and eight hundred pesos from the treasury of the province of Bataan. The fiscal for the two provinces shall reside at Malolos, Province of Bulacan. Such traveling expenses of the fiscal in the Province of Bulacan as are authorized by law shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Bulacan, and like traveling expenses in the Province of Bataan shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Bataan. The necessary expenses in traveling from the capital of one of such provinces to that of the other in the performance of his duties as fiscal shall be borne two-thirds by the Province of Bulacan and one-third by the Province of Bataan. The expenses of such clerical assistance, if any, as shall be authorized for the fiscal shall be paid two-thirds by the Province of Bulacan and one-third by the Province of Bataan.
SECTION 2. The offices of fiscal of the Provinces of Bulacan and Bataan as heretofore authorized by law are hereby abolished and the fiscal authorized by section one of this Act shall have power to perform all the duties appertaining by law to the office of fiscal in each of said Provinces of Bulacan and Bataan.
SECTION 3. That portion of section seven of Act Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-seven which provides the times and places of holding the Court of First Instance within and for the Province of Bataan, in the Sixth Judicial District, which reads as follows:
"At Balanga, in and for the Province of Bataan, commencing on the first Tuesdays of April and October of each year," is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"At Balanga, in and for the Province of Bataan, commencing on the first Tuesdays of April and December of each year."
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 January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six.
ENACTED, January 11, 1906.
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An Act Providing that One Fiscal shall Perform the Duties of Fiscal for the Provinces of Bulacan and Bataan, Repealing the Provisions of Law Authorizing a Separate Fiscal for Each of Said Provinces, Fixing the Salary of the Fiscal for the Two Provinces, Making Provision for Traveling Expenses for Such Fiscal, and Changing the Time of Holding the Court of First Instance for the Province of Bataan from the First Tuesday of October to the First Tuesday of December of Each Year, Act No. 1437, Jan 11, 1906 (Philippines)
An Act Providing that One Fiscal shall Perform the Duties of Fiscal for the Provinces of Bulacan and Bataan, Repealing the Provisions of Law Authorizing a Separate Fiscal for Each of Said Provinces, Fixing the Salary of the Fiscal for the Two Provinces, Making Provision for Traveling Expenses for Such Fiscal, and Changing the Time of Holding the Court of First Instance for the Province of Bataan from the First Tuesday of October to the First Tuesday of December of Each Year, Act No. 1437 (Phil. 1906)
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