[ Act No. 301, November 18, 1901 ]

AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-FIVE, RELATING TO THE APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF SUBORDINATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES IN CERTAIN BUREAUS.

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

Section 1. Section one of Act Numbered Twenty-five, entitled "An Act providing for the appointment and removal of subordinate officers and employees in certain Departments and Bureaus of the Government of the Philippine Islands," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"Provided, nevertheless, That in case there is no head or acting head of any such Office or Bureau, or other office or bureau established by law, at the time when subordinate appointments to, or removals from, positions therein become necessary, such appointments and removals may he made, by the Secretary of the Department under which the Office or Bureau, is established."

Section 2. 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.1aшphi1

Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, November 18, 1901.


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