[ Act No. 91, February 28, 1901 ]

AN ACT FIXING THE SALARIES OF THE AUDITOR FOR THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO, OF THE DEPUTY AUDITOR, AND OF THE CHIEF CLERK, AND REORGANIZING THE OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. The Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago shall receive an annual compensation of six thousand dollars. The Deputy Auditor shall receive an annual compensation of four thousand dollars, and the chief clerk of the Auditor shall receive an annual compensation of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.SEC. 2. In addition to the officers whose salaries arc fixed in the preceding section, there shall he employed in the office of the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago: seven clerks of class six. five clerks of class seven, six clerks of class eight, nine clerks of class nine, two clerks of class ten, two clerks of Class A, two clerks of Class B, two clerks of Class C, two clerks of Class D, two clerks of Class E, two clerks of Class F, two clerks of Class I, and three messengers at a compensation at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum.The foregoing classification is that provided in civil service rule twelve, adopted by the Civil Service Board under the provisions of the Civil Service Act, in accordance with which the clerks and employees specified in this section are to be appointed. The clerks provided in this section shall receive the compensation fixed for their respective classes in said civil service rule twelve.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-sixth, nineteen hundred.SEC. 4. Act Numbered Twenty, entitled "An Act to reorganize the office of the Auditor of the Islands," enacted October tenth, nineteen hundred, is hereby repealed, the repeal to take effect from and after April first, nineteen hundred and one.SEC. 5. Except as provided in the preceding section, this Act shall take effect on its passage.Enacted, February 28, 1901.

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