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

SECTION1. The Governor-General is hereby authorized to appoint every four years, with the advice and consent of the Senate a Trade Commissioner in China, whose office  shall be in Shanghai, China, and whose duty it shall be under the direction, supervision and control of the Secretary of Commerce and Communications, to study economic conditions in China with a view to facilitating the exportation of Philippine products to that country, look for new  markets m that country and, in general, watch over the commercial interests of the Philippines in China.

SEC. 2. The Trade Commissioner in China shall receive a salary of six thousand pesos, Philippine currency, per annum.

SEC. 3. The necessary funds of carrying out the purposes of this Act shall be provided annually in the appropriation act.  

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, November 27, 1929.