Section 1. All the
provisions of an Act entitled "A general Act for the organization of
provincial governments in the Philippine Islands," enacted February
sixth, nineteen hundred and one, and its amendments, shall apply to and
govern the establishment of a provincial government in that territory
in the Island of Luzon known as the Province of La Laguna, with such
exceptions, modifications, and supplementary provisions as are
hereinafter contained.
Sec. 2. The compensation to be paid provincial
officers of the Province of La Laguna shall be at the following rate
per year, money of the United States, or its equivalent in local
currency at the legal rate:
For the provincial governor, two thousand dollars;
For the provincial secretary, one thousand four hundred dollars;
For the provincial treasurer, two thousand two hundred dollars;
For the provincial supervisor, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For the provincial fiscal, one thousand four hundred dollars.
The salary of provincial officers shall be payable monthly so that
one-twelfth of the annual salary shall be paid on the last day of each
calendar month.
Each provincial officer shall be allowed his necessary and actual
traveling expenses, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents, money of
the United States, per day, while absent from the capital of the
province on official business. The allowance shall be made by the
provincial board upon the certificate of the officer that the travel
was necessary for the public business, and shall not be paid until
account accompanied by the resolution of the board approving the same
shall be forwarded to the Insular Treasurer and by him approved.
Sec. 3. The bond of the provincial treasurer shall
be ten thousand dollars, until the first day of March, nineteen hundred
and three, when, in view of the collection of the land tax, the
Commission may require a new bond or an additional bond to cover the
probable increase of the funds of which the provincial treasurer shall
have custody at any one time. The bond to be given shall be conditioned
to secure on the part of the provincial treasurer that he shall account
for the internal-revenue collections coming into his hands as
internal-revenue collector, the taxes collected by him for such
municipality, for the province, and for the Central Government. The
form of the bond shall be prescribed by the Insular Treasurer. If, upon
the request of the Commission, the Military Governor shall detail any
military officer to fill a provincial office, no bond shall be required
of him.
Sec. 4. The presidents or alcaldes of the
municipalities of the province shall meet on the third Monday in May
and November to consider improvements needed in the province and for
the provincial government, and to make recommendations to the
provincial board. The convention shall be called together by the
provincial secretary and shall elect a chairman for each half-yearly
session. The provincial secretary shall act as secretary of the
convention, and shall certify its recommendations to the provincial
board.
Sec. 5. The people of the Province of La Laguna,
in view of their distressed condition, are hereby expressly exempted
from payment of the land tax provided by the Municipal Code and the
Provincial Government Act for the year nineteen hundred and two, and
such land tax will not be assessed nor collected.
Sec. 6. The provisions of Act Numbered
Seventy-eight, of paragraphs (d), (e), and (f) of section eight of Act
Numbered Eighty-two, of that portion of section three of Act Numbered
Eighty-three commencing with the words "or who" in the tenth line and
ending with the word "date" in the twelfth line of said section, and of
Act Numbered One hundred and six amendatory of said Acts, shall not
apply to any officer, soldier, or civilian who surrendered to
Brigadier-General Samuel S. Sumner in the Province of La Laguna in the
month of June, nineteen hundred and one, anything in said Acts to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 7. The capital of the province shall be, as
formerly, at the town of Santa Cruz.
Sec. 8. This Act shall take effect on its
passage.
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