[ Act No. 1127, April 28, 1904 ]
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF PER DIEMS IN LIEU OF EXPENSES TO EMPLOYEES IN THE BUREAU OF ENGINEERING WHO ARE DIRECTED TO PERFORM OFFICIAL TRAVEL.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The Consulting Engineer to the Commission, the principal assistant engineer, the assistant engineer in. charge of railways, the chief of supervisory, and such other employees as may be designated for duties in connection with the overseeing and inspection of public works, shall be entitled to a per diem of two dollars and fifty cents. United States currency or its equivalent in Philippine currency, for each day such officer or employee is actually traveling, or away from Manila or his regular station on official business, in addition to necessary cost of transportation. When transportation by steamship, government transport, or otherwise, includes subsistence, no per diem shall be paid or allowed for such portion of the journey, or when subsistence is furnished from a government mess of a held party.1aшphi1
Section 2. The Consulting Engineer to the Commission is hereby authorized to detail any employee not below the guide of class six for the purpose of overseeing and inspecting public works.
Section 3. 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 on its passage.
Enacted, April 28, 1904.
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