Section 6
SEC. 6. (a) The provincial governor shall be the chief executive officer of the province. He shall report to the Governor-General. He shall sec that the laws arc faithfully executed by all the officers in the province; he shall receive the judge of First Instance when he enters the province to hold the terms of court therein, and shall provide for his protection and entertainment, charging the reasonable expenses thereof to the provincial treasury, which shall not; exceed six pesos, Philippine currency, per day: Provided, That t where the governor fails for any cause to make proper provision for the protection and entertainment of the judge, a per diem of six pesos, Philippine currency, shall be allowed from the provincial treasury to the judge in lieu of expenses during the period he is required to be in the province for the purpose of holding court. (b) He shall attend the Court of First Instance when in session, by himself or a deputy, as the chief executive officer of the court and province, and shall execute such process as he shall be required to execute by law. (c) Subject to other provisions of law, he shall have control of the local police of the various townships or settlements of the province; and may, when the public interests require, temporarily withdraw from the township or settlement in which such police are organized a part thereof for use in other townships or settlements of the province. (d) hi the event that any provincial Constabulary inspector in, charge shall find that the officers or men of the township police force are inefficient, dishonest, disloyal to the United States, or guilty of any violation of law or duty, he shall at once report the same to the governor of the province, who shall have power, and it shall lie his duty, to suspend the accused official, and after due hearing, if he finds the official accused to be guilty of the offense or neglect of duty charged, he shall dismiss him, and the vacancy thus occasioned shall be filled as provided by the provisions of the Township Government Act. (e) He shall exercise the same powers with regard to the use of the Insular police stationed in the province as are now or may hereafter be provided by law for governors of provinces organized under Act Numbered Eighty-three, entitled "The Provincial Government Act." (f) Whenever lawless violence or seditious conspiracy and disturbance of the public peace shall occur of so formidable a character as to he beyond the power of the local and Insular police of the province to suppress, it shall be the duty of the governor to call upon the Governor-General or the military officer commanding the district in which the province lies to send troops to suppress the disturbance. (g) He shall preside at all meetings of the provincial board hereinafter constituted. (h) He shall at least once in every six months visit every township or settlement in the province; while in the township or settlement he shall hear all complaints made against the conduct of any of its executive officers, and take suitable action thereon. He shall have the power to suspend any township official charged with misconduct in office or disloyalty to the United States, and after proper notice and hearing to remove him and to direct the provincial fiscal to bring a criminal or civil suit in the public interest against the person complained of if the charge made involves either civil or criminal liability, or to dismiss the complaint and reinstate the person complained of. (i) Between the first and fifteenth of July of each year he shall make a report to the Governor-General of the Philippine Islands for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth of June. This report shall embrace all matters pertinent to the administration and progress of the provincial government, and contain full information as to the commercial, economic, financial, industrial, and political conditions of the province, in order that the Governor-General and the Philippine Commission may he properly informed of the actual existing conditions during the period covered by the report. Should unexpected events or matters of special importance to the general welfare of the province occur subsequent to the dale, of the regular annual report, a supplementary statement may also be filed, not later than September fifteenth, in order that complete data may be at band for the use of the Governor-General in submitting his annual report to the Philippine Commission. (j) The governor shall, through a jailer and guards to be appointed by him, have custody of all prisoners held awaiting trial or duly sentenced to the provincial jail. (k) He shall make known to the people of his province, by proclamations or communications delivered to the presidents of the several townships or settlements, all general laws or governmental orders which concern them. (l) Upon the organization of any new township or settlement within the province he shall fix the date for the first election in such township or settlement. (m) He shall be authorized to carry, as a badge of his office, a walking stick of white Indian cane, with gold bead and a gold cord.