[ Act No. 521, November 17, 1902 ]
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE PROVINCIAL BOARD OF ANY PROVINCE ORGANIZED UNDER THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT ACT TO CALL SPECIAL MEETINGS OF MUNICIPAL PRESIDENTS TO CONSIDER MATTERS OF URGENT IMPORTANCE TO THE PROVINCE OR THE MUNICIPALITIES.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. The provincial board of any province organized under the Provincial Government Act is hereby authorized, when in its discretion it seems necessary, to call special meetings of all or any number of the municipal presidents of the province for the purpose of considering matters of urgent importance to the province or the municipalities, said special meetings to be in addition to the regular convention of municipal presidents as provided in the special acts organizing the several provincial governments and by Act Numbered Four hundred and twenty-five. Such special meetings may be convened at the capital of the province, or, when some other point is more centrally located with reference to the municipalities affected, at such other places as may be fixed by the provincial board. The special meetings of municipal presidents authorized by this section may be called only upon the unanimous vote of the provincial board.
SEC. 2. In case of a special meeting of municipal presidents as provided in section one hereof, the provincial board is authorized to pay from provincial funds the actual and necessary traveling expenses of the municipal presidents so convened from their respective municipalities to the place of meeting and return: Provided, That the expense so paid shall not exceed the maximum limitation imposed by law upon the traveling expenses of the provincial officers of the province.
SEC. 3. This Act shall be retroactive in so far as necessary to authorize the provincial board of the Province of Capiz to pay the traveling expenses of the municipal presidents of that province convened during the month of October, nineteen hundred and two, for the purpose of considering the question of reorganizing the municipalities of the province.
SEC. 4. 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, November 17, 1902.
SECTION 1. The provincial board of any province organized under the Provincial Government Act is hereby authorized, when in its discretion it seems necessary, to call special meetings of all or any number of the municipal presidents of the province for the purpose of considering matters of urgent importance to the province or the municipalities, said special meetings to be in addition to the regular convention of municipal presidents as provided in the special acts organizing the several provincial governments and by Act Numbered Four hundred and twenty-five. Such special meetings may be convened at the capital of the province, or, when some other point is more centrally located with reference to the municipalities affected, at such other places as may be fixed by the provincial board. The special meetings of municipal presidents authorized by this section may be called only upon the unanimous vote of the provincial board.
SEC. 2. In case of a special meeting of municipal presidents as provided in section one hereof, the provincial board is authorized to pay from provincial funds the actual and necessary traveling expenses of the municipal presidents so convened from their respective municipalities to the place of meeting and return: Provided, That the expense so paid shall not exceed the maximum limitation imposed by law upon the traveling expenses of the provincial officers of the province.
SEC. 3. This Act shall be retroactive in so far as necessary to authorize the provincial board of the Province of Capiz to pay the traveling expenses of the municipal presidents of that province convened during the month of October, nineteen hundred and two, for the purpose of considering the question of reorganizing the municipalities of the province.
SEC. 4. 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, November 17, 1902.