[ Act No. 1572, December 13, 1906 ]

AN ACT PROVIDING THAT ONE FISCAL SHALL PERFORM THE DUTIES OF BY FISCAL FOR THE PROVJNCES OF CAPIZ AND ROMBLON, ABOLISHING THE OFFICES OF FISCAL OF CAPIZ AND OF ROMBLON AND PALAWAN AS HERETOFORE AUTHORIZED BY LAW, FIXING THE SALARY OF THE FISCAL OF THE TWO PROVINCES, AND MAKING PROVISION FOR THE TRAVELING EXPENSES OF SUCH FISCAL.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. The duties of fiscal for the Provinces of Capiz and Romblon hereafter shall be performed by one fiscal, whose salary shall be twenty-seven hundred pesos per annum, of which two thousand pesos shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Capiz and  seven  hundred  pesos   out  of  the   Insular   appropriation  for "Judiciary,"  Act  Numbered  Fifteen  hundred  and twenty-seven.  The fiscal for the two provinces shall reside at Capiz, Province of Capiz.    Such traveling expenses of the fiscal in the Province of Capiz as are authorized by law shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Capiz, and like traveling expenses in the Province of Romblon  shall  he paid from the treasury of the Province of Romblon.    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 Capiz  and   one-third  out  of  the  appropriation  "Judiciary,"  Act Numbered   Fifteen  hundred   and   twenty-seven.    The  expense  of such clerical assistance, if any, as shall be authorized for the fiscal shall be paid two-thirds by the Province of Capiz and one-third out   of   the   appropriation   "Judiciary,"   Act   Numbered   Fifteen hundred and twenty-seven.    Beginning with the fiscal year, July first, nineteen hundred and seven, such proportion of salaries and traveling expenses as are herein authorized to be paid out of Insular funds shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Romblon.SEC. 2. The offices of fiscal of the Provinces of Capiz and of Romblon and Palawan as heretofore authorized by law are hereby abolished and the tiscal authorized by section one of this Act shall have power to perform the duties appertaining by law to the office of fiscal in Capiz and in Romblon Provinces. The Attorney-General is hereby authorized and directed, whenever the necessity therefor arises, to designate any assistant attorney or fiscal to perform in the Province of Palawan the duties of fiscal heretofore performed by the fiscal of Romblon and Palawan.SEC. 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-sixty, nineteen hundred.SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen I red and seven.Enacted, December 13, 1906.

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