Providing for the Expenditure for Salary and Traveling Expenses of a Delegate Attending the International Navigation Conference
Act No. 1820, enacted on May 11, 1908, allocates $17,000 for the salary and travel expenses of a delegate from the Philippine Islands to attend the International Navigation Conference in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Governor-General will appoint the delegate, who will receive a monthly salary of $1,500 plus travel expenses. The delegate can also appoint subordinate personnel with a maximum salary of $300 each per month, whose travel costs will be similarly covered. The Insular Treasurer is responsible for disbursing salaries and advance travel funds, with provisions for payment in advance for the first quarter. The Act became effective immediately upon passage.
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- What is Providing for the Expenditure for Salary and Traveling Expenses of a Delegate Attending the International Navigation Conference about?
- Act No. 1820, enacted on May 11, 1908, allocates $17,000 for the salary and travel expenses of a delegate from the Philippine Islands to attend the International Navigation Conference in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Governor-General will appoint the delegate, who will receive a monthly salary of $1,500 plus travel expenses. The delegate can also appoint subordinate personnel with a maximum salary of $300 each per month, whose travel costs will be similarly covered. The Insular Treasurer is responsible for disbursing salaries and advance travel funds, with provisions for payment in advance for the first quarter. The Act became effective immediately upon passage.
- What type of law is Act No. 1820?
- Providing for the Expenditure for Salary and Traveling Expenses of a Delegate Attending the International Navigation Conference (Act No. 1820) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
- When was Providing for the Expenditure for Salary and Traveling Expenses of a Delegate Attending the International Navigation Conference enacted?
- Providing for the Expenditure for Salary and Traveling Expenses of a Delegate Attending the International Navigation Conference (Act No. 1820) was enacted on May 11, 1908.
- What is the citation for Providing for the Expenditure for Salary and Traveling Expenses of a Delegate Attending the International Navigation Conference?
- Providing for the Expenditure for Salary and Traveling Expenses of a Delegate Attending the International Navigation Conference, Act No. 1820, May 11, 1908 (Philippines)
Law Information
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- Act No. 1820
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- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
May 11, 1908
ACT NO. 1820
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE EXPENDITURE OF SEVENTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, UNITED STATES CURRENCY, FOR SALARY AND TRAVELING EXPENSES OF A DELEGATE FROM THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND SUBORDINATE PERSONNEL TO ATTEND THE INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION CONFERENCE TO BE HELD FROM THE TWENTY-EIGHT OF MAY, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHT, IN SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
SECTION 1. The sum of seventeen thousand dollars, United States currency, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of the funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for traveling expenses and expenses of subsistence while traveling and for salary of the delegate from the Philippine Islands and of subordinate personnel who shall attend the International Conference of Navigation to be held in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from the twenty-eight of May, nineteen hundred and eight.
SECTION 2. Said delegate shall be appointed by the Governor-General, and will receive a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars, United States currency, a month, from the date of his embarkation for Saint Petersburg until one month after the said conference shall have been closed, and his traveling expenses and expenses of subsistence going and returning, in accordance with the next preceding section, shall be paid by the Insular Treasurer.
SECTION 3. The delegate is hereby authorized to appoint the necessary subordinate personnel, and the salary of said personnel shall not exceed three hundred dollars, United States currency, a month. The Insular Treasurer shall pay the traveling expenses and expenses of subsistence of said personnel, both going and returning, in the same manner as those of the delegate: Provided, That the expenses of the subordinate personnel shall not exceed the necessary traveling expenses of one single employee. aHSTID
SECTION 4. The Insular Treasurer shall provide for the payment, in advance, to the delegate, after his appointment and prior to his departure for Saint Petersburg, of his own salary and that of the subordinate personnel, corresponding to one quarter; and shall place funds in any bank of that capital, to be collected by the said delegate in his discretion, after the first quarter for which payment was made shall have elapsed.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
ENACTED, May 11, 1908.
Cite This Law
Providing for the Expenditure for Salary and Traveling Expenses of a Delegate Attending the International Navigation Conference, Act No. 1820, May 11, 1908 (Philippines)
Providing for the Expenditure for Salary and Traveling Expenses of a Delegate Attending the International Navigation Conference, Act No. 1820 (Phil. 1908)
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