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ACT NO. 955
ACT NO. 955 - AN ACT TO AMEND ACT
NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, IN REFERENCE TO THE COLLECTION OF
TAXES IN THE TOWNSHIPS AND SETTLEMENTS OF LEPANTO-BONTOC, AND TO AMEND
ACT NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED AND TEN, BY INCREASING THE SALARIES OF THE
GOVERNOR AND SECRETARY-TREASURER OF SAID PROVINCE
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Section 1. Section one of
Act Numbered Four hundred and eleven, entitled "An Act providing for
the establishment of local civil governments in the townships and
settlements of the Province of Lepanto-Bontoc," is hereby amended by
adding thereto the following:
"Provided,
That section sixty-eight of Act Numbered Three hundred and
eighty-seven, in its application to the Province of Lepanto-Bontoc,
shall be construed to confer upon the governor of the Province of
Lepanto-Bontoc the power to prescribe the taxes to be collected in the
townships and settlements of the province, other than Cervantes, such
taxes to be limited in kind and extent to the taxes imposed in sections
one to sixty-seven of Act Numbered Three hundred and eighty-seven."
Sec. 2. All acts of the governor or other
provincial officers of Lepanto-Bontoc in collecting taxes in accordance
with the construction stated in section one hereof are hereby
confirmed, and the proper officers are hereby made accountable for the
custody and disposition of such taxes thus collected.
Sec. 3. Section two of Act Numbered Four hundred
and ten, providing for the organization of the Province of
Lepanto-Bontoc, is hereby amended as follows:
First. By striking out subsection (a) thereof and inserting in lieu
thereof the following:
"(a) A provincial governor, who shall receive
compensation at the rate of two thousand four hundred dollars per
annum."
Second. By striking out subsection (b) thereof and inserting in lieu
thereof the following:
"(b) A provincial secretary-treasurer, who shall
receive compensation at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars
per annum."
Sec. 4. It is hereby provided that all fees
collected by any provincial officer of Lepanto-Bontoc as ex officio
justice of peace shall be accounted for to the provincial
secretary-treasurer and be turned into the provincial treasury.
Sec. 5. It shall be lawful for the Civil Governor,
with the consent of the Commission, to detail an officer or employee of
the Ethnological Survey to act as lieutenant-governor of
Lepanto-Bontoc, in which case the official detailed shall not receive
any salary from the provincial government; or, if such detail is not
deemed wise by the Civil Governor, the Chief of Ethnological Survey may
pay, upon the approval of the Civil Governor, a reasonable sum out of
the funds appropriated for that Bureau to a lieutenant-governor of the
province, duly appointed, in addition to his salary as such, for the
ethnological investigations and reports which he may be able to make
without detriment to the interests of the provincial government.
Sec. 6. 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.
Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
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