[ Act No. 871, September 08, 1903 ]
AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED EIGHTY, AS AMENDED BY ACT NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT, BY PROVIDING THAT THE AMOUNTS DUE TO THE ESTATES OF DECEASED EMPLOYEES FOR ACCRUED LEAVE OF ABSENCE NOT ENJOYED SHALL BE PAID TO THE INSULAR TREASURER, AND ADMINISTERED BY HIM UNDER ACT NUMBERED TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY, ONLY IN CASE OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section two of Act Numbered Eighty, entitled "An Act regulating the hours of labor, leaves of absence, and transportation of appointees under the Philippine civil service," as amended by section one of Act Numbered .Four hundred and forty-eight, is hereby further amended by adding at the close of the additional paragraph added to said section two by Act Numbered Four hundred and forty-eight the following:
"And provided further, That in case the deceased head of a Bureau, provincial officer, or employee of any Bureau was a native or citizen of the Philippine Islands, the amount due him for salary for the period of accrued leave shall be paid, not to the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands, but to the legal representative of the deceased according to law."
Section 2.1aшphi1 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 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, September 8, 1903.
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