Act No. 369




[ Act No. 369, March 06, 1902 ] AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE AND PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT AND EXTRA COMPENSATION OF CONSTABULARY SUPPLY OFFICERS. By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that: Section 1. The Chief of Philippine Constabulary is hereby authorized to designate one inspector in each province or group of provinces, to take charge of the branch supply store, and to requisition for, receipt for, disburse, issue, and be responsible and accountable for all public civil funds and property for the use or under the control of the members of the Philippine Constabulary, in the province or group of province in which such inspector is designated. The provincial inspectors so designated shall be known as Constabulary supply officers. Section 2. Each Constabulary supply officer shall be required to give a bond in an amount to be determined by the Civil Governor of the Islands, with satisfactory surety, and to render the required accounts, returns, reports, statements, inventories, and vouchers to the proper insular officers for all public civil funds and property invoiced or transferred to him or which shall come into this hands. The accountability and responsibility of each Constabulary supply officer for such funds and property shall be fixed and regulated by existing laws and the rules an regulations established from time to time by or with the approval of the Auditor for the Philippine Islands. Each Constabulary supply officer shall receive, in compensation for his services as supply officer, the sum of two hundred dollars per annum in addition to his salary as inspector.1aшphi1 Section 3. This Act shall be retroactive and all appointments of supply officers since February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and two, are hereby validated. Section 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. Section 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, March 6, 1902. The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation