Section 24
SEC. 24. (a) The Province of Lepanto-Bontoc shall consist of the territory included within the limits heretofore fixed for this province by Act Numbered Four hundred and ten, as amended. The capital of the province shall be the township of Cervantes. (b) This province shall be divided into three subprovinces, as follows: The subprovince of Lepanto, which shall consist of the territory included within the boundaries fixed for this subprovince by Act A umbered Four hundred and ten, as amended. The subprovince of Bontoe, which shall consist of the territory included within the boundaries fixed for this subprovince by Act Numbered Four hundred and ten, as amended. The subprovince of Amburayan, which shall consist of the territory included within the boundaries fixed for this subprovince by Act Numbered Four hundred and ten, as amended. (c) The officers of the provincial government shall be a provincial governor, at four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum; a secretary-treasurer, at three thousand two hundred pesos per annum, who shall discharge the duties herein before prescribed for the provincial secretary and those prescribed for the provincial treasurer, and who shall give a bond as provided by section four of this Act in the sum of ten thousand pesos; and a provincial supervisor, at three thousand pesos per annum. The fiscal for the Mountain Judicial District shall discharge the duties herein before prescribed for the provincial fiscal. (d) There shall be a lieutenant-governor for the subprovince of Bontoc, at three thousand pesos per annum, who shall reside and j have his office in the settlement of Bontoc; and a lieutenant-governor for the subprovince of Amburayan, at two thousand four hundred pesos per annum, who shall reside and have his office in the settlement of Alilem. Subject to the supervision of the provincial governor, the lieutenant-governors shall exercise in their respective subprovinces the powers herein before conferred upon the provincial governor. They shall be eligible to appointment as deputies of the provincial secretary-treasurer, but when so appointed shall receive no additional salary. (e) The lieutenant-governors shall have power to appoint, in, accordance with the rules and restrictions of the Civil Service Act and the Acts amendatory thereof, such permanent assistants, clerks, and employees in their offices as may be approved by the provincial board. The number and salaries of such employees shall be reported by them to the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands, who shall have the power to abolish such subordinate offices or reduce salaries; and no increase shall be made in the number of such employees or the amount of such salaries after having been reduced by the Treasurer of the Philippine Islands before his approval of the proposed increase shall have been obtained. The salaries of the officers and employees provided for in subsections (d) and (c) of this section shall be paid from the provincial treasury. (f) The lieutenant-governor of Bontoc and the lieutenant-governor of Amburayan shall be justices of the peace ex officio with jurisdiction throughout their respective subprovinces.