Section 4
SEC. 4. The provincial secretary, the provincial treasurer, and the provincial supervisor shall be selected under the provisions and restrictions of the Civil Service Act. The provincial secretary shall be able to speak and write the Spanish language. and, after January first, nineteen hundred and six, the English language also. Before the treasurer shall qualify he shall give a bond to the Insular Government for the benefit of whom it may concern, with sufficient surety, in the amount hereinafter prescribed in sections twenty-three to twenty-seven, inclusive, in the case of each province to which this Act shall apply; the surety, or sureties, shall be approved by the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands. The bond shall be conditioned to secure the faithful performance of the duties of the office as now or hereafter prescribed by law. and for the accounting for all funds coming into his hands as treasurer, or into those of his authorized deputies, during his incumbency, and in case of death or removal, until the statement of his accounts by the Auditor for the Philippine Islands. His bond shall, after its approval, be filed with the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands, who shall record the same in a book to be kept, for the purpose and shall safely keep the same. If suit be brought on this bond it shall be no defense to those signing the bond that file above requirements for approval have not been complied with, if in fact, by virtue of such bond, the provincial treasurer has entered upon the discharge of his official duties.