Section 15
SEC. 15. (a) The Bureau of Posts shall have one chief, one assistant chief, and two superintendents of division, who shall be known, respectively as the Director of Posts, Assistant Director of Posts, Superintendent Postal Division, Bureau of Posts, and Superintendent Telegraph Division, Bureau of Posts, each of whom shall be appointed by the Governor-General, by and with the consent of the Philippine Commission. The salary of the Director of Posts shall be twelve thousand pesos per annum, that of the Assistant Director of Posts, seven thousand five hundred pesos per annum, that of the Superintendent Postal Division, Bureau of Posts, six thousand five hundred pesos per annum, and that of the Superintendent Telegraph Division, Bureau of Posts, six thousand pesos per annum: Provided, however, That if the present superintendent of the telegraph division of the Constabulary be appointed to the office .last named he shall receive the compensation provided by the terms of Ms special contract with the Insular Government. (b) The Bureau of Posts shall have exclusive jurisdiction and control of all mail and postal business within the maritime jurisdiction of the Philippine Islands, and of all telegraph and telephone lines and service transferred to it by section twelve of this Act, and of all other telegraph or telephone lines and service that may hereafter come under the jurisdiction or control of the Government of the Philippine Islands. (c) It shall be the duty of the Director of Posts, subject to the executive control of the Secretary of Commerce and Police: To establish and to discontinue post-offices and telegraph and telephone offices; To instruct all persons in the postal, telegraph, and telephone service with reference to their duties; To decide on the forms of all official papers except as to accounts; To control, according to law and subject to settlement of the Insular Auditor, all expenses incident to the service of the Bureau of Posts; To prescribe regulations not inconsistent with law for the government of his Bureau, the conduct of its officers, clerks, and employees, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, papers, and property pertaining to it; To superintend generally the business of the Bureau of Posts, and to execute all laws relative to the postal service within, the maritime jurisdiction of the Philippine Islands, and relative to all telegraph and telephone service under the jurisdiction or control of the Government of the Philippine Islands; To keep the seal adopted for his Bureau, which shall be affixed to all appointments of postmasters and others, and used to authenticate all transcripts and copies which may be required from his Bureau; and To perform such other duties as are now, or may hereafter be, required by law or executive order. (d) It shall be the duty of the Assistant Director of Posts to -exercise general supervision of such business of the Bureau of Posts, in the name of himself or the Director of Posts, as the latter may direct, and to perform such other duties as the Director of Posts shall require, and he shall also in case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Director of Posts, unless otherwise directed by the Secretary of Commerce and Police, perform the duties of the Director of Posts until a successor is appointed, or such absence or sickness shall cease. (e) The duties of the Superintendent Postal Division, Bureau of Posts, shall be such as the Director of Posts may require, and he st .shall also in case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of both the Director of Posts and the Assistant Director of Posts, unless otherwise directed by the Secretary of Commerce and Police, perform the duties of the Director of Posts until a successor is appointed, or such absence or sickness shall cease. (f) The Superintendent Telegraph Division, Bureau of Posts, shall perform such duties as the Director of Posts may require. (g) Act Numbered One hundred and seventy-nine is hereby repealed, and hereafter all postal, telegraph, or telephone service of every nature and kind rendered by the Bureau of Posts to Departments, Bureaus, officials, clerks, or employees of the Insular, provincial, or municipal governments in their official capacity, shall be paid for at the regular rates established for similar services to private persons, out of funds duly appropriated for the purpose. The provisions of this paragraph shall be effective on and after January first, nineteen hundred and six.