[ Act No. 2834, March 08, 1919 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-EIGHT OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN, CONCERNING THE APPOINTMENT OF SUBORDINATE EMPLOYEES OF THE GENERAL LAND REGISTRATION OFFICE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. Section one hundred and seventy-eight of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven of the Philippine Legislature, known as the Administrative Code of nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 178. Subordinate employees of General Land Registration Office.—The chief surveyor and other subordinates of the General Land Registration Office shall be appointed by the Secretary of Justice, upon recommendation of the chief of said office. For administrative purposes, the General Land Registration Office shall be under the direct control of the Secretary of Justice."
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March 8, 1919.