[ Act No. 609, January 31, 1903 ]
AN ACT CONSOLIDATING THE EXECUTIVE BUREAU AND THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The Executive Bureau and the Office of the Secretary of the Philippine Commission are hereby consolidated under the name of the Executive Bureau.
Section 2. There may be employed in the Executive Bureau the following force: Executive Secretary, at seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum; Assistant Executive Secretary, at four thousand dollars per annum; chief clerk at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; one law clerk, class five.
TRANSLATING DIVISION.
One chief of division at three thousand five hundred dollars per annum; one clerk at two thousand four hundred dollars per annum; one clerk, class five; three clerks, class six; two clerks, class seven; two clerks, Class A; one clerk, Class C; one messenger at one hundred and eighty dollars per annum.
LEGISLATIVE DIVISION.
One recorder of the Commission, class four; two clerks, class six; one clerk, class seven; two clerks, class eight; one clerk, class nine; one clerks, Class A; one clerk, Class C; one messenger at one hundred and eighty dollars per annum.
ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE DIVISION.
One chief of division, class five; three clerks, class six; five clerks, class seven; two clerks, class eight; one clerk, class nine; one clerk, Class A; one clerk, Class C; one clerk, Class D; three employees at one hundred and eighty dollars per annum each.
RECORDS DIVISION.
One chief of division, class five; one clerk, class six; seven clerks, class seven; four clerks, class eight; four clerks, class nine; two clerks, Class A; one clerk, Class C; two clerks, Class D; one employee at one hundred and eight dollars per annum.
MAILING DIVISION.1aшphi1
One chief of division, class six; one clerk, class nine; one clerk, Class A; two employees, Class J; eight employees at one hundred and eighty dollars per annum each.
DISBURSING OFFICE.
One disbursing officer, class four; one clerk, class eight; one employees, Class J.
CUSTODIAN FORCE.
One janitor, Class A; two watchmen at seven hundred and eighty dollars per annum each; fourteen laborers at one hundred and twenty dollars per annum each.
Section 3. There may also be employed one private secretary for the Civil Governor at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and one private secretary for each member of the Commission, except the President thereof, at salaries as may or have been fixed by resolution of the Commission.
Section 4. The Executive Bureau shall furnish the necessary clerks and messengers for the offices of the Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Commerce and Police, Secretary of Finance and Justice, and the Secretary of Public Instruction.
Section 5. Sections two and three of Act Numbered One hundred and two, and as amended by Act Numbered One hundred and sixty-seven and other Acts amendatory thereof, are hereby repealed.
Section 6. Appropriations made under Act Numbered Five hundred and ninety-five for salaries and wages for the office force of the Philippine Commission, the Executive Bureau, and the office forces of the Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Commerce and Police, Secretary of Finance and Justice, and Secretary of Public Instruction, are hereby made available for the force herein authorized for the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and all other sums appropriated under other digest headings for the office and bureaus above named shall be disbursed under the respective digest headings for the expenses of the Executive Bureau.
Section 7. Section one of Act Numbered Six, entitled "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," is hereby amended by striking out the word "Secretary" where it appears in paragraph (d) of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Recorder."
Section 8. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section tow of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Section 9. This acts shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, January 31, 1903.
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