[ Act No. 360, February 20, 1902 ]
AN ACT FOR THE REORGANIZATION OF THE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES PHILIPPINE COMMISSION.
By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. There are hereby authorized in the office of the United States Philippine Commission: One private secretary for each member of the Commission except the President thereof, at such salaries as may be fixed by resolution of the Commission; one secretary of the Commission, at an annual compensation of three thousand five hundred dollars; one Spanish secretary of the Commission, at an annual compensation of three thousand five hundred dollars; one chief clerk, class five; one disbursing officer, class five; three clerks, class six; two clerks, class seven; four clerks, class eight; one clerk, Class I; two messengers, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum each; four messengers, at the rate of one hundred and eighty dollars per annum each; and one Tagalog-Spanish interpreter and translator, who shall be compensated at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum.
SEC. 2. Section three of Act Numbered One hundred and two, entitled, "An Act regulating the salaries of officers and employees in the Philippine civil service," and all Acts or pars of Acts amendatory thereof, providing for employees in the office of the United States Philippine Commission, are hereby repealed.
SEC. 3. 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, February 20, 1902.
SECTION 1. There are hereby authorized in the office of the United States Philippine Commission: One private secretary for each member of the Commission except the President thereof, at such salaries as may be fixed by resolution of the Commission; one secretary of the Commission, at an annual compensation of three thousand five hundred dollars; one Spanish secretary of the Commission, at an annual compensation of three thousand five hundred dollars; one chief clerk, class five; one disbursing officer, class five; three clerks, class six; two clerks, class seven; four clerks, class eight; one clerk, Class I; two messengers, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum each; four messengers, at the rate of one hundred and eighty dollars per annum each; and one Tagalog-Spanish interpreter and translator, who shall be compensated at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum.
SEC. 2. Section three of Act Numbered One hundred and two, entitled, "An Act regulating the salaries of officers and employees in the Philippine civil service," and all Acts or pars of Acts amendatory thereof, providing for employees in the office of the United States Philippine Commission, are hereby repealed.
SEC. 3. 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, February 20, 1902.