An Act to Amend Section 1 of Act No. 2907

March 8, 1922

ACT NO. 3018

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED AND SEVEN, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE PROVINCIAL OFFICERS OF BATANES, MINDORO, AND PALAWAN MAY RECEIVE THE ANNUAL COMPENSATION FIXED PREVIOUSLY, AND TO PROVIDE, FURTHER, THAT ANY PROVINCIAL OFFICER OF THE PROVINCES ORGANIZED UNDER CHAPTERS SIXTY-THREE AND SIXTY-FOUR OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE MAY BE GRANTED QUARTERS, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN CONDITIONS," SO AS TO INCREASE THE SALARY OF THE PROVINCIAL TREASURER OF THE PROVINCE OF BATANES

SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred and seven is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SECTION 1. Any provisions of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding, the provincial officers of the Provinces of Batanes, Mindoro, and Palawan, may, only until October sixteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be paid the annual compensation fixed in previous laws, which shall in no case exceed the sums hereinafter specified:

"In Batanes, the provincial governor, four thousand pesos; the provincial treasurer, three thousand pesos; the provincial fiscal, three thousand pesos.

"In Mindoro, the provincial governor, four thousand five hundred pesos; the provincial treasurer, four thousand five hundred pesos; the provincial fiscal, three thousand pesos.

"In Palawan, the provincial governor, four thousand eight hundred pesos; the provincial treasurer, four thousand pesos; the provincial fiscal, three thousand pesos."

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March 8, 1922.