AN ACT AMENDING RULE FORTY-EIGHT OF ACT NUMBERED NINETY, AS AMENDED BY ACT NUMBERED FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN.

• Number: Act No. 802
• Sections: 4

Preamble

By authority of the United States, and with the concurrence and approval of the Secretary of War first had, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

Section 1

SECTION 1. Rule forty-eight of Act Numbered Ninety, as amended by Act Numbered Five hundred and thirteen, is hereby amended by substituting the words "Assistant Treasurer of the Islands" for the words "Cashier of the Treasurer of the Islands" in the second line of the amendment added by Act Numbered Five hundred and thirteen, and by substituting the words "four thousand" for the words "three thousand" in the seventh line of said amendment, so that the amendment to said rule provided by Act Numbered Five hundred and thirteen shall read as follows:

"There is hereby created and shall be maintained the office of Assistant Treasurer of the Islands, to he filled by appointment of the Secretary of War, whose duties shall be, under the supervision of the Treasurer, to receive and disburse cash in the office of the Treasurer and have charge of the cash room, and perform such other salary increased, duties as the Treasurer may assign to him. He shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars. He shall have charge of the Bureau of the Treasury as Acting Treasurer in case of the death, resignation, sickness, or other absence of the Treasurer. He shall give bond, the amount and sufficiency of which shall be fixed and approved in the same manner as the Treasurer's bond."

Section 2

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speed v enactment of this bill, the, passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act proscribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

Section 3

SEC. 3. This Act: shall be retroactive so as to take effect July first, nineteen hundred and three.

Enacted, July 23, 1903.