An Act to Provide for the Adjustment of the Salaries of the Provincial Officers, and for Other Purposes

March 5, 1919

ACT NO. 2829

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ADJUSTMENT OF THE SALARIES OF THE PROVINCIAL OFFICERS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. The salaries of the provincial officers shall be adjusted as follows:

(a) In provinces that have obtained an average total revenue of three hundred thousand pesos or more per annum for five consecutive years, the provincial governor shall receive six thousand pesos per annum; the provincial treasurer, five thousand four hundred pesos per annum, and the provincial fiscal, five thousand pesos per annum.

(b) In provinces that have obtained an average total revenue of two hundred thousand pesos or more per annum, but less than three hundred thousand pesos, for five consecutive years, the provincial governor shall receive five thousand pesos per annum; the provincial treasurer, four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum, and the provincial fiscal, four thousand live hundred pesos per annum.

(c) In provinces that have obtained an average total revenue of one hundred and fifty thousand pesos or more per annum, but less than two hundred thousand pesos, for five consecutive years, the provincial governor shall receive four thousand five hundred pesos per annum; the provincial treasurer, four thousand two hundred pesos per annum, and the provincial fiscal, four thousand pesos per annum.

(d) In provinces that have obtained an average total revenue of one hundred thousand pesos or more per annum, but less than one hundred and fifty thousand pesos, for five consecutive years, the provincial governor shall receive four thousand pesos per annum; the provincial treasurer, three thousand six hundred pesos per annum, and the provincial fiscal, three thousand five hundred pesos per annum.

(e) In provinces that have obtained an average total revenue of less than one hundred thousand pesos per annum for five consecutive years, the provincial governor shall receive three thousand two hundred pesos per annum; the provincial treasurer, three thousand pesos per annum, and the provincial fiscal, two thousand four hundred pesos per annum: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, reduce the scale of salaries herein established for any province the average annual revenue of which during the five consecutive years immediately preceding have been excessively below one hundred thousand pesos.

SECTION 2. In order to carry out the purposes of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall, beginning with the year nineteen hundred and twenty-two and for each period of five consecutive years after said date, order a readjustment made of the salaries of the provincial officers on the basis of the rules established in this Act: Provided, That said Secretary of the Interior may, however, apply the schedule of salaries herein established upon the approval of this Act and prior to the year nineteen hundred and twenty-two, to provinces making application therefor, through their respective provincial boards.

SECTION 3. All Acts or parts of Acts, executive orders and other regulations inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved: March 5, 1919.