[ Act No. 326, December 31, 1901 ]

AN ACT PROVIDING A SUBSTITUTE UPON THE PROVINCIAL BOARD FOR THE PROVINCIAL TREASURERS UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, AND AMENDING ACTS NUMBERED EIGHTY-THREE AND ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE.

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

Section 1. In all cases in which the Insular treasurer, by reason of the provisions of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-three, shall take possession of the office of any provincial treasurer because of alleged defalcations in his office, such treasurer shall ipso facto be suspended from the performance of his functions as a member of the provincial board and the deputy placed in charge of the office of such provincial treasurer by the Insular Treasurer shall, during the time he is in charge of such office, be a member of the provincial board, with all the powers and duties pertaining to the provincial treasurer.1aшphi1

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.

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

Enacted, December 31, 1901.


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