[ Act No. 766, May 26, 1903 ]

AN ACT CONSOLIDATING THE OFFICES OF PROVINCIAL TREASURER AND PROVINCIAL SUPERVISOR IN THE PROVINCE OF ORIENTAL NEGROS AND MAKING THE PRESIDENT OF THE PROVINCIAL BOARD OF HEALTH A MEMBER OF THE PROVINCIAL BOARD OF THE PROVINCE.

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

SECTION 1. The offices of provincial treasurer and provincial supervisor provided for in Act Numbered One hundred and twenty, extending the provisions of the Provincial Government Act and the Municipal Code to the Province of Oriental Negros, are hereby consolidated, and the office thus formed shall be known as the office of the provincial supervisor-treasurer.

SEC. 2. The provincial governor, the provincial supervisor-treasurer, and the president of the provincial board of health for the province, who shall receive no additional compensation for such services, shall constitute the provincial board of the Province of Oriental Negros.

SEC. 3. The bond of the provincial supervisor-treasurer of Oriental Negros shall be twenty thousand dollars, subject to increase or diminution by the Insular Treasurer in accordance with Act Numbered Four hundred and sixty-four; he shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars, payable monthly; his qualifications and duties shall be the same as the qualifications and duties of provincial supervisor and provincial treasurer as outlined in the Provincial Government Act, except that the requirement that the provincial supervisor shall be a competent civil engineer and surveyor shall not apply. The supervisor-treasurer may employ a foreman in charge of the repair and construction of roads at a salary hot to exceed sixty dollars per month.

The duties of provincial supervisor by this Act transferred to the provincial supervisor-treasurer shall be understood to include the duties heretofore performed by the provincial supervisor as a member of the provincial board of health.

SEC. 4. So much of Act Numbered One hundred and twenty or of any other Act as may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. 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. 6. This Act shall take effect June first, nineteen hundred and three.

Enacted, May 26, 1903.