An Act to Amend Section 6 of Act No. 1582

December 28, 1907

ACT NO. 1803

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION SIX OF ACT NUMBERED FIFTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-TWO, KNOWN AS THE ELECTION LAW, BY PROVIDING AN ANNUAL SALARY FOR THE SPEAKER OF THE PHILIPPINE ASSEMBLY AND BY INCREASING THE PER DIEMS OF DELEGATES TO THE ASSEMBLY

SECTION 1. The first paragraph of section six of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two, known as the Election Law, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 6. Compensation and expenses of the Officers and Delegates, Philippine Assembly. — The Speaker of the Assembly shall receive an annual salary of sixteen thousand pesos and shall also receive his actual and necessary expenses for transportation and subsistence en route of himself and one private secretary only, from his residence to Manila and return, once for each session which he actually attends. Unless otherwise provided by law, each Delegate, except the Speaker, shall receive thirty pesos per day for each day of actual sitting of the Assembly, and shall also receive his actual and necessary expenses for transportation and subsistence en route of himself only, from his residence to Manila and return, once for each session which he actually attends."

SECTION 2. The salary and per diems herein provided for shall be effective as of October sixteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, and the unexpended balance of any funds appropriated for the Philippine Assembly by Act of the Philippine Commission Numbered Sixteen hundred and seventy-nine is hereby made available for the payment of said salary and per diems: Provided, That all payments of per diems heretofore made shall be deducted from the payments which may be made in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

ENACTED, December 28, 1907.