Act No. 679 — An Act to Amend Act Numbered Five Hundred and Eighty-Four, Entitled "An Act Creating the Bureau of Engineering," by Increasing the Number of Employees Therein.
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SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered Five hundred and eighty-four, entitled "An Act creating the Bureau of Engineering," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words "and one assistant engineer at a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum."
SEC. 2. Section three of Act Numbered Five hundred and eighty-four is hereby amended by inserting after the word "Engineering," in lines three and four, the words "one assistant engineer class four," and by striking out the words "one draftsman, Class D," in line six and inserting therein the words "three draftsmen, Class D."
SEC. 3. The appropriations made in Act Numbered Five hundred and ninety-five under the head of "Salaries and wages, Bureau of Engineering, nineteen hundred and three," are hereby made available for the positions herein authorized for the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three.
SEC. 4. 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage. Enacted, March 13, 1903.
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