[ Act No. 626, February 09, 1903 ]
AN ACT PROVIDING THAT WHEN ANY OFFICIAL OR EMPLOYEE OF THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE DESIGNATED TO PERFORM THE DUTIES OF ANOTHER OFFICIAL OR EMPLOYEE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ACT NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHT, HE SHALL BE REIMBURSED FOR SUCH ADDITIONAL EXPENSES AS HE SHALL BE OBLIGED TO INCUR FOR BOND BY REASON OF SUCH DESIGNATION; AND MAKING THIS ACT RETROACTIVE.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Whenever any official or employee shall be designated by the proper authority for the temporary performance of the duties of the head of a Bureau, or of any subordinate official or employee, of any Office or Bureau, in accordance with Act Numbered Four hundred and eight, the person so designated shall be reimbursed for such expenses and disbursements as he is obliged to make on account of the requirements of a bond in the position to which he has been so designates; and this Act shall be retroactive so as to apply to all officials and employees who have heretofore, by reason of such designation, been caused to incur expenses in the manner in this section stated.1aшphi1 Such reimbursement shall be made from the appropriation for the Department, Bureau, or Office in which the services are rendered by reason of such designation.
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, February 9, 1903.
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