Section 19
SEC. 19. (a) The Bureau of Audits shall have one chief and one assistant chief, who shall be known respectively as the Auditor for the Philippine Islands and the Deputy Auditor for the Philippine Islands, but who may also be designated by the short title of "Insular Auditor" and "Deputy Insular Auditor," respectively. The Insular Auditor and the Deputy Insular Auditor shall be appointed by the Secretary of War, with the concurrence of the Governor-General and the approval of the Philippine Commission. The Insular Auditor shall perform the duties and render the services required of the Auditor for the Philippine Islands by Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and two, known as "The Accounting Act." The Deputy Insular Auditor shall perform the duties of the Insular Auditor during the absence or disability of the latter, and such other duties as may be required of him by the Insular Auditor. The salary of the Insular Auditor shall be twelve thousand pesos, and that of the Deputy Insular Auditor seven thousand five hundred pesos per annum: Provided, however, That the incumbents of the office of Auditor for the Philippine Islands and Deputy Auditor for the Philippine Islands at the time of the passage of this Act shall respectively receive, during their incumbency of the offices of Insular Auditor and Deputy Insular Auditor, the salaries now prescribed by law for the Auditor for the Philippine Islands and the Deputy Auditor for the Philippine Islands. (b) The Bureau of Audits shall perform the duties and render: the services required of the. office of the Auditor for the Philippine Islands by Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and two, known as "The Accounting Act."