[ Acts No. 4165, December 03, 1934 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND ACT NUMBERED TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, BY INSERTING BETWEEN SECTIONS ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR AND ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE, A NEW SECTION TO BE KNOWN AS SECTION ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR (A), PROVIDING FOR THE DIVISION OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS INTO EIGHT SUPERVISING DISTRICTS FOR FISCALS AND THE DESIGNATION OF SUPERVISING FISCALS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines
in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:
Section 1. The Administrative Code is hereby amended by inserting between sections one thousand six hundred and seventy-four and one thousand six hundred and seventy-five thereof, a new section to be known as section one thousand six hundred and seventy-four-A which shall read as follows:
"Section 1674-A. The Secretary of Justice is hereby authorized to group the provinces of the Philippine Islands into districts taking into account the means of transportation between them, and to designate for each district a supervising fiscal to be selected among the fiscals of the provinces within such district. Such supervising fiscal shall, in addition to his duties as provincial fiscal of his province, and subject to the direction and control of the said Secretary of Justice, exercise supervision over the work of the provincial finals within his district and shall render assistance to any one of them in cases of special importance. The supervising fiscal so designated shall receive in section to his salary as provincial fiscal, the provisions of section two hundred and fifty-nine of this Code to the contrary notwithstanding, such compensation, to be paid out of Insular funds, as the Secretary of Justice may determine, not to exceed one thousand pesos per annum."
Section 2. The sum of ten thousand pesos or so much there of as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out or any funds in the Insular Treasury, not otherwise appropriated for the salaries of supervising fiscals and for their traveling expenses as such to be disbursed by the Secretary of Justice.1aшphi1
Section 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved, December 3, 1934.
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