[ Act No. 1794, October 12, 1907 ]

AN ACT TO REGULATE THE GRANTING OF LEAVES OF ABSENCE AND OTHER ALLOWANCES TO THE PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL AND THE PRIVATE SECRETARIES TO THE MEMBERS OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION IN THE SAME MANNER AS IF SAID PRIVATE SECRETARIES, AS SUCH, WERE MEMBERS OF THE CLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. The  private secretary to the Governor-General and the private secretaries to the members of the Philippine Commission  may in the discretion of the Governor-General or proper commissioner, be granted the accrued and vacation leave and allowances in connection therewith provided by Act Numbered Sixteen hundred " and ninety-eight, entitled "An Act for the regulation of the Philippine civil service." in the same manner as if said private secretaries, as such, were members of the classified civil service.

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of: ''An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, October 12, 1007.