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

SECTION 1. Sections two and three of Act Numbered One hundred and two entitled, "An Act regulating the salaries of officers and employees in the Philippine Civil Service," shall be amended so as to read as follows:

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY.

"SEC. 2. To assist the Civil Governor in his executive duties there shall be created an Executive Bureau, at the head of which there shall be an Executive Secretary, who shall receive an annual salary of seven thousand five hundred dollars, who shall speak and write fluently the English and Spanish languages and shall act as interpreter at all public sessions of the Commission when that body desires his presence, and shall supervise, at its request, the translations of its laws. In such Executive Bureau, there shall be one assistant executive secretary, who shall receive a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars a year, whose duty it shall be to receive estimates for appropriations and to prepare and forward forms of appropriation bills for the consideration of the Commission, and who shall discharge such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Executive Secretary; one private secretary to the Civil Governor, who shall receive a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars a year; two chief clerks of class four; two clerks of class six; three clerks of class seven; nine clerks of class eight; fourteen clerks and one translator of class nine; one clerk of Class A; ten clerks of Class C; two clerks of Class F; two clerks of Class H; one clerk of Class I; three clerks of Class J; and five messengers at a compensation at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum each: Provided, That the Executive Secretary shall assign from the force of his office such clerks, stenographers, and other employees to assist the Military Governor in the discharge of his civil executive duties as may be necessary. The Executive Secretary shall, in addition to his other duties, act as custodian of the Ayuntamiento, and shall employ for the purpose one chief janitor of Class B, two night watchmen of Class C, and such janitors, porters, and laborers as may be authorized by law.

"SEC. 3. There shall be employed at the office of the United States Philippine Commission, one private secretary for each member of the Commission, except the President thereof, at salaries as they 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 assistant secretary at an annual compensation of two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; two clerks of class six; one clerk of class seven; nine clerks of class eight; one clerk of Class A; one clerk of Class I; four messengers at a compensation at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars each per annum; one Tagalog-Spanish interpreter and translator at a compensation at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum."

SEC. 2. Section fourteen of Act Numbered One hundred and two shall be amended by increasing the annual compensation of the collector of customs at Iloilo from three thousand five hundred dollars to four thousand dollars; by increasing the salary of the collector of customs at Jolo to two thousand five hundred dollars; by abolishing the office of collector of customs at Siassi and providing that there shall be at Siassi a deputy collector of customs, who shall be a subordinate and subject to the orders of the collector of customs at Jolo, and shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars.

SEC. 3. Section five of Act Numbered Five, entitled "The Civil Service Act" shall be amended by striking out in paragraph (a) the words "The Military Governor," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "The Executive Secretary," and by adding the following paragraphs: "(o) The Insular Purchasing Agent; (p) The Superintendent of the Government Cold Storage and Ice Plant; (q) The Officer in Charge of the Improvement of the Port of Manila; (r) The Chief of the Weather Bureau, subject to the provisions of the Act creating the Weather Bureau; (s) The Board of Health of the Philippine Islands, subject to the provisions of the Act creating the Board; (t) The Superintendent of the Government Laboratories, subject to the provisions and limitations of Act Numbered One hundred and fifty-six."

SEC. 4. Section twenty of Act Numbered Five, entitled "The Civil Service Act," is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 20. The requirements of this act for entrance into the civil service, or for promotion by competitive examination, shall not apply to the selection of the Executive Secretary; the secretary of the United States Philippine Commission; the Treasurer for the Islands; the Auditor for the Islands; the Collector of Customs for the Islands; the deputy collector of customs for the Islands; the Collector of Inland Revenue for the Islands: the Director of Posts for the Islands; the head of the Bureau of Forestry; the head of the Bureau of Mines; the Superintendent of Public Instruction; the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics; the members of the Civil Service Board; the Insular Purchasing Agent; the Superintendent of the Government Cold Storage and Ice Plant: the officer in charge of the improvement of the port of Manila; the Chief of the Weather Bureau, his three assistants, and the secretary of the Bureau; the members of the Board of Health of the Philippine Islands; the Superintendent of Government Laboratories and directors of laboratories; or of one private secretary for the Civil Governor and for each member of the United States Philippine Commission, except the President. But, after eighteen months from the date when the Board shall certify that it has a sufficient list of eligibles to supply vacancies, vacancies occurring in all the foregoing offices, except in the private secretaryships above described, and in the offices of the Officer in Charge of the Improvement of the Port of Manila, the Chief of the Weather Bureau, the three assistants, and secretary of such Bureau, the members of the Board of Health of the Philippine Islands, and of the Superintendent and directors of Government Laboratories, shall be filled without examination from a class to be composed of the first, second, and third assistants in all the foregoing offices, or Bureaus, the intention of this provision being that the appointing power may, by virtue hereof, transfer from one office to another a person deemed competent to fill the vacancy. In case there are no assistants in the foregoing offices designated as such by law, the Civil Service Board may in its discretion, include in such eligible list, by rule, one of the subordinates in such office ranking next to the head thereof."

SEC. 5. The clerks, stenographers, messengers, and other employees employed as part of the civil service of the Islands under the secretary to the Military Governor on fifty fourth, nineteen hundred and one, are hereby transferred to the office of the Executive Secretary, subject to the same requirements of the Civil Service Act and rules as when employed in the office of the secretary to the Military Governor.

SEC. 6. The clerks and other employees employed in the office of the disbursing quartermaster for civil bureaus under the Military Government when the civil functions of that officer were terminated by order of the Military Governor on the thirtieth of June, nineteen hundred and one, are hereby continued as employees of the Insular Purchasing Agent, and the cashier of the Disbursing Quartermaster for Civil Bureaus shall be the chief clerk in the office of the Insular Purchasing Agent. Until a purchasing agent shall be appointed, or during any subsequent vacancy in said office, the chief clerk thereof shall act as Purchasing Agent for the Islands. The Disbursing Quartermaster for Civil Bureaus is hereby authorized to turn over to such chief clerk, as Acting Purchasing Agent, all the public civil property held by him for the benefit of the insular Government, taking duplicate receipts therefor, one of which shall be filed with the Auditor of the Archipelago. The clerks and other employees hereby transferred from the office of the Disbursing Quartermaster for Civil Bureaus to the office of the Insular Purchasing Agent are hereby made members of the civil service of the Islands without examination, subject to the conditions contained in section twenty-two of Act Numbered Five, entitled "The Civil Service Act."

SEC. 7. The clerks and employees now employed under the Superintendent of the Government Cold Storage and Ice Plant, and those now employed under the Officer in Charge of the Improvement of the Port of Manila, are hereby made a part of the civil service of the Islands without examination, subject, however, to the conditions contained in section twenty-two of Act Numbered Five, entitled "The Civil Service Act."

SEC. 8. 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. 9. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, July 16, 1901.