Composition of Provincial Boards of Batanes and Palawan

December 2, 1930

ACT NO. 3786

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE COMPOSITION OF THE PROVINCIAL BOARDS OF THE PROVINCES OF BATANES AND PALAWAN

SECTION 1. In the Provinces of Batanes and Palawan, the provincial board shall be composed of the provincial governor, who shall be the presiding officer of the board, and of two other members, to be elected by the qualified voters of the province.

SECTION 2. The new member of the board who will replace the provincial treasurer, shall be elected at the general election of nineteen hundred and thirty-one and shall assume office at the same time as the new officers, on October sixteenth of the said year.

SECTION 3. The elective members of the provincial board shall receive a compensation, to be fixed by resolution of the provincial board, of not less than five nor more than fifteen pesos for each day of actual attendance at the sessions of the board or of the performance of other duties assigned to either of them or both by the provincial board; but said members shall not be allowed more than one compensation for the same day. Any elective member of the provincial board who is not a resident of the provincial capital shall be entitled to reimbursement of his actual and necessary travel expenses from his place of residence to the place where the provincial board holds its sessions, when going to the said sessions and returning from the same.

SECTION 4. Upon the occasion of the absence, illness, suspension or other incapacity of the governor of any province in which this Act is in force and effect, the Governor-General may designate any other provincial officer or employee to perform the duties of the position.

Until the Governor-General shall act, the duties of the provincial governor, in the case contemplated, may be discharged by one of the elective members of the provincial board thereunto previously authorized or deputed by the provincial governor. When a member of the provincial board has been thus deputed, the authority may be limited to the performance, during the absence of the provincial governor from the capital, of such of his duties as can only be conveniently performed at the capital or it may be limited to the performance of specific acts or classes of acts. Every such delegation of authority shall be made in writing and shall be spread upon the minutes of the provincial board.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, December 2, 1930.