[ Act No. 694, March 21, 1903 ]
AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN, ENTITLED "AN ACT CREATING A BUREAU OF PUBLIC LANDS," BY AUTHORIZING ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEES FOR THAT BUREAU AND APPROPRIATING A SUM SUFFICIENT FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE SALARIES OF SUCH EMPLOYEES FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FISCAL YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THREE.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section four of Act Numbered Two hundred and eighteen, entitled "An Act creating a Bureau of Public Lands," is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 4. There may be employed in the Bureau of Public Lands the following force: Chief clerk class four, one law clerk class six, one draftsman class six, two clerks class seven, one draftsman class eight, three clerks class eight, three clerks class nine, one clerk class ten, one surveyor Class C, one draftsman Class G, two draftsmen Class H, four clerks Class H, one messenger at one hundred and twenty dollars per annum."
Section 2. There is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum in addition to the amount appropriated under Act Numbered Five hundred and ninety-five for "Salaries and wages," Bureau of Public Lands, nineteen hundred and three," sufficient for the payment of the force herein authorized for the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three.
Section 3.1aшphi1 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 4. This Act shall take effect as of March first, nineteen hundred and three.
Enacted, March 21, 1903.
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