Providing for the Employment of Private Secretaries to the Resident Commissioners to the United States

December 26, 1907

ACT NO. 1802

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF PRIVATE SECRETARIES TO THE RESIDENT COMMISSIONERS TO THE UNITED STATES AND FOR THE SALARIES AND TRAVELING EXPENSES OF SAID PRIVATE SECRETARIES

SECTION 1. Each of the Resident Commissioners to the United States is hereby authorized to appoint, without reference to the Civil Service Law and Rules as to examination requirements, a private secretary, who, in addition to the other duties required of him by the Resident Commissioner for whom he is private secretary, may be required to act as interpreter and translator for the said Resident Commissioner when necessary.

SECTION 2. Each of said private secretaries shall receive a salary of four thousand pesos per annum and shall be allowed his actual and necessary traveling expenses from Manila, Philippine Islands, to Washington, District of Columbia, and return once in every two years — that is, during the legal term of office of the Resident Commissioner.

SECTION 3. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand five hundred pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the payment of the salaries and traveling expenses of the private secretaries hereby authorized for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight: Provided, However, That should the said salaries and expenses or any part thereof be authorized to be paid out of the Treasury of the United States, the Insular Government shall bear only the sum representing the difference between the amount of the said salaries and expenses hereby authorized and the amount which actually may be paid from funds of the United States Government.

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

ENACTED, December 26, 1907.