Section 12
SEC. 12. (a) The Bureau of Constabulary shall have one chief and such assistant chiefs as may be allowed by the appropriation Acts. The chief and assistant chiefs shall "be appointed by the Governor-General, by and with the consent of the Philippine Commission. The Chief of Constabulary shall be known as the Director of Constabulary, and the assistant chiefs as Assistant Directors of Constabulary. One of the Assistant Directors shall be the Chief Supply Officer of Constabulary. The Director of Constabulary and the Assistant Directors of Constabulary shall respectively perform the duties now imposed by laws in force upon the chief and assistant chiefs of Constabulary, and such other duties as may be required of them by this Act. Whenever an officer of the United States Army is detailed for service as Chief of Constabulary, he shall be known as the Director of Constabulary and shall be entitled to the rank, pay, and allowances of a brigadier-general in the United States Army, and whenever officers of the United States Army are detailed for service as assistant chiefs of Constabulary they shall be known as Assistant Directors of Constabulary, and each shall be entitled to the rank, pay, and allowances of a colonel in the United States Army: Provided, however, That when an officer of the United States Army is detailed for service as Director of Constabulary, he shall be entitled to receive as pay from the Insular Government only the difference between the pay and allowances of a brigadier-general and the pay and allowances of his grade in the United States Army at the time of his detail: And provided further, That officers of the United States Army detailed for service as Assistant Directors shall each be entitled to receive as pay from the Insular Government only the difference between the pay and allowances of a colonel and the pay and-allowances of his grade in the United States Army at the time of his detail. (b) The Constabulary commissary depot and wholesale and retail supply store in the city of !Manila are hereby transferred to the Bureau of Supply. (c) The telegraph division of the Bureau of Philippines Constabulary is hereby transferred to the Bureau of Posts, effective January first, nineteen hundred and six. Officers and civilian employees of the telegraph division, and men enlisted in the Constabulary for the purposes of the telegraph division, shall be transferred to the Bureau of Posts as officers or employees of the latter Bureau, with no change of status with respect to Acts Numbered Five, Twenty-five, and One thousand and forty, except as to officers or inspectors. (d) Unless otherwise provided by this Act, the Bureau of Constabulary shall perform the duties and render the services now prescribed by law for the Bureau of Philippines Constabulary.