AN ACT PROVIDING FOR ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEES IN THE OFFICE OF THE COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS FOR THE PHILIPPINE ARCHIPELAGO.

• Number: Act No. 713
• Sections: 5

Section 1

SECTION 1. The following employees are hereby authorized in the office of the Collector of Customs for the Philippine Archipelago, at Manila: One superintendent of semaphore station, Class D at fifty-two dollars and fifty rents per month; one assistant superintendent of semaphore station, Class G; two messengers, Class K, at sixteen dollars per month.

Section 2

SEC. 2. The sum of one hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty cents, United States currency, is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the salaries of said employees for the month of March, nineteen hundred and three.

Section 3

SEC. 3. The position of harbormaster, class three, is hereby reduced to harbormaster, class five.

Section 4

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.

Section 5

SEC. 5. This Art shall take effect from the first day of March, nineteen hundred and three.

Enacted, March 31, 1903.