Act No. 1437




[ Act No. 1437, January 11, 1906 ] AN ACT PROVIDING THAT ONE FISCAL SHALL PERFORM THE DUTIES OF FISCAL FOR THE PROVINCES OF BULACAN AND BATAAN, REPEALING THE PROVISIONS OF LAW AUTHORIZING A SEPARATE FISCAL FOR EACH OF SAID PROVINCES, FIXING THE SALARY OF THE FISCAL FOR THE TWO PROVINCES, MAKING PROVISION FAR TRAVELING EXPENSES FOR SUCH FISCAL, AND CHANGING THE TIME OF HOLDING THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE FOR THE PROVINCE OF BATAAN FROM TE FIRST TUESDAY OF OCTOBER TO THE FIRST TUESDAY OF DECEMBER OF EACH. YEAR. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: Section 1. The duties of fiscal for the Provinces of Bulacan and Bataan hereafter shall be performed by one fiscal whose salary shall be. three thousand pesos per annum, of which two thousand two hundred pesos shall be paid from the treasury of the Province, of Bulacan and eight hundred pesos from the treasury of the Province of Bataan. The fiscal for the two provinces shall reside at Malolos, Province of Bulacan. Such traveling expenses of the fiscal in the Province of Bulacan as are authorized by law shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Bulacan, and like traveling expenses in the Province of Bataan shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Bataan. The Necessary expenses in traveling from the capital of one of such provinces to that of the other in the performance of his duties as fiscal Shall be borne two-thirds by the Province of Bulacan and one-third bythe Province of Bataan. The expenses of such clerical assistance, if any, as shall be authorized for the fiscal shall be paid two-thirds by the Province of Bulacan and one-third by the Province of Bataan. Section 2. The offices of fiscal of the Provinces of Bulacan and Baiaan as heretofore authorized by law are hereby abolished and tin; fiscal authorized by section one of this Act shall have power to perform all the duties appertaining by law to the office of fiscal in each of said Provinces of Bulacan and Bataan. Section 3. That potion of section seven of Act Number hundred and sixty-seven which provides the times and holding the Court of First Instance within and for the of Bataan, in the Sixth Judicial District, which reads as "At Balanga, in and for the Province of Bataan, cor on the first Tuesdays of April and October of each year, amended so as to read as follows: "At Balanga, in and for the Province of Bataan, commencing on the first Tuesdays of April and December of each year.1aшphi1" Section 4. The public good requiring is he speedy enactment of this hill, 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," passes September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. Section 5. This Act shall take effect on January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six. Enacted, January 11, 1906. The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation