[ Act No. 1375, July 12, 1905 ]
AN ACT PROVIDING THAT ONE FISCAL SHALL PERFORM THE DUTIES OF FISCAL FOR THE PROVINCES OF LA UNION AND ZAMBALES, REPEALING THE PROVISIONS OF LAW AUTHORIZING A SEPARATE FISCAL FOR EACH OF SAID PROVINCES, FIXING THE SALARY FOR THE FISCAL OF THE TWO PROVINCES, AND MAKING PROVISIONS FOR TRAVELING EXPENSES OF SUCH FISCAL.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The duties of fiscal for the Provinces of La Union and Zambales shall hereafter be performed by one fiscal, to be appointed by the Governor-General with the consent of the Commission, whose salary shall be three thousand pesos, Philippine currency, per annum, one thousand eight hundred pesos of which shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of La Union and one thousand two hundred pesos from the treasury of the Province of Zambales. The fiscal for the two provinces shall reside at San Fernando, the capital of the Province of La Union. Such traveling expenses of the fiscal in the Province of La Union as are authorized by law shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of La Union, and like traveling expenses in the Province of Zambales shall be paid from the treasury of that province. The necessary expenses in traveling' from the capital of one province to that of the other in the performance of the duties of fiscal shall he borne one-half by the Province of La Union and one-half by the; Province of Zambales. The expenses of such clerical assistance, if any, as shall be authorized for the fiscal, shall be paid one-half by the Province of La Union and one-half by the Province of Zambales.
Section 2. The offices of fiscal of the Province of La Union and , that of the Province of Zambales, as heretofore authorized by law,' are hereby abolished, and the fiscal authorized by section one of this Act shall have the power, and perform all the duties pertaining to the of lice of fiscal by law in each of said provinces of La Union and Zambales1aшphi1.
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 the first day of August, nineteen hundred and live.
Enacted, July 18, 1905.
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