[ Act No. 1440, January 16, 1906 ]
AN ACT AMENDING SECTION TWO OF ACT NUMBERED SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY, BY PROVIDING FOR A DIFFERENT METHOD OF PAYMENT OF EXTRA COMPENSATION TO NATIVE CRAFTSMEN AND APPRENTICES IN THE BUREAU OF PRINTING.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section two of Act Numbered Six hundred and fifty is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 2. Native craftsmen, from the date of their entrance into the service, and native apprentices, from the date of their entrance into the second class, for each year of honest, faithful, satisfactory, and continuous service in the Bureau of Printing shall be entitled to receive at the end of the next succeeding year of honest, faithful, satisfactory, and continuous service, extra compensation as follows: Twenty centavos per diem for each full day of actual service rendered at a daily wage of one peso and twenty centavos or more but less than two pesos and forty centavos; forty centavos per diem for each full day of actual service rendered at a daily wage of two pesos and forty centavos or more but less than three pesos and twenty centavos; and sixty centavos per diem for each full day of actual service rendered at a daily wage of three pesos and twenty centavos or more: Provided, That this extra compensation shall not be paid for service rendered prior to March first, nineteen hundred and three. A native craftsman or apprentice separated from the Bureau of Printing after such extra compensation has been earned and before it becomes due shall not be entitled to receive any part thereof unless such separation shall be on account of lack of world, permanent disability, or death, in which event such native craftsman or apprentice, or his estate in case of death, may, on the recommendation of the Director of Printing, approved by the Secretary of Public Instruction, receive the extra compensation accumulated at the time of separation. For the purposes of this Act the services of native craftsmen and apprentices shall be deemed continuous until such craftsmen and apprentices arc definitely separated from the service in the Bureau of Printing."
Section 2. This Act shall not he so construed as to authorize additional extra compensation for any period for which extra compensation has already been paid under die provisions of section two of Act Numbered Six hundred and fifty.
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.1aшphi1
Section 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, January 16, 1906.
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