[ Act No. 260, October 08, 1901 ]
AN ACT PROVIDING THAT ALL SALARIES PAID TO OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES IN THE CIVIL SERVICE SHALL BE PAID IN INSULAR CURRENCY OR IN MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES AS THE APPROPRIATING AUTHORITY SHALL DETERMINE, AND REPEALING ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-FOUR.
By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. All salaries and wages to be paid to officers and employees in the civil service of these islands, insular, provincial, or municipal, shall hereafter be paid in money of the United States or in local currency, as shall be provided in the Act making appropriation for such payment. In case the appropriating authority shall order payment to be made in local currency, the ratio of local currency to money of the United States shall be that fixed for the quarter for which the appropriations are made, by proclamation of the Civil Governor at the beginning of the quarter.
Section 2. Act Numbered Thirty-four, so far as it is in conflict with section one of this Act, is hereby repealed.1aшphi1
Section 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.
Section 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, October 8, 1901.
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