[ Act No. 392, April 18, 1902 ]

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE EMPLOYMENT OF PERSONS AT SALARIES LOWER THAN THOSE FOR WHICH APPROPRIATION IS MADE, AND DESIGNATING PERSONS AUTHORIZED TO ADMINISTER OATHS FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD.

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

SECTION 1. The head of any Department or Bureau may, with the approval of the Philippine Civil Service Board, appoint employees at salaries lower than those authorized and appropriated for: Provided, That the aggregate number of employees so authorized and appropriated for shall not be increased.

SEC. 2. The members of the Civil Service Board, or any examiner duly authorized by it, may administer such oaths as may be necessary in the transaction of the official business of the Board.

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. The provisions of this Act shall be effective as of April first, nineteen hundred and two.

Enacted, April 18, 1902.