Act No. 1060




[ Act No. 1060, February 24, 1904 ] AN ACT CONSOLIDATING THE OFFICES OF PROVINCIAL TREASURER AND PROVINCIAL SUPERVISOR AND AUTHORIZING THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR TO PERFORM THE DUTIES OF THE PROVINCIAL SECRETARY OF THE PROVINCE OF MASBATE. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: Section 1. The office of provincial treasurer and provincial supervisor provided for in Act Numbered One hundred and five, extending the provisions of the Provincial Government Act to the Province of Masbate are hereby consolidated, and the office thus formed shall be known as the office of provincial supervisor-treasurer. Section 2. The provincial governor, the provincial supervisor-treasurer, and the division superintendent of schools shall constitute the provincial board. Section 3. The bond of the provincial supervisor-treasurer shall be four thousand dollars. He shall receive an annual salary of one thousand two hundred dollars, payable monthly. His qualifications and duties shall be the same as the qualifications and duties of provincial supervisor and provincial treasurer as outlined in the Provincial Government Act except that the requirement that the provincial supervisor shall be a competent civil engineer and surveyor shall not apply. The supervisor-treasurer may employ a foreman in charge of the repair and construction of roads, bridges, and buildings, at a salary not to exceed sixty dollars a month. Section 4. The provincial governor of the Province of Masbate is hereby authorized to discharge the duties of provincial secretary and all official acts of the provincial governor of the Province of Masbate while acting in the capacity of provincial secretary of said province since September fifth, nineteen hundred and one are hereby validated.1aшphi1 Section 5. So much of Act Numbered One hundred and five and its amendments as may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed. Section 6. 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 7. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, February 24, 1904. The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation