Section 24
SEC. 24. (a) The Bureau of Supply shall have one chief and one assistant chief, who shall be appointed by the Governor-General, by and with the consent of the Philippine Commission, and who shall be known respectively as the Purchasing Agent and. the Assistant Purchasing Agent. The Purchasing Agent shall perform the duties now imposed on the Insular Purchasing Agent by laws In in force, and such other duties as may be required of him by this Act as chief of the Bureau of Supply. The Assistant Purchasing Agent shall perform the duties of the Purchasing Agent during the absence or disability of the latter, and such other duties as may be required of him by the Purchasing Agent. The salary of the Purchasing Agent shall be ten thousand pesos, and that of the Assistant Purchasing Agent six thousand five hundred pesos per annum. (b) The duties and services required by law of the Philippines Constabulary in regard to the civil supply store, its depot, offices, and warehouses, in the city of Manila, shall be performed by the Bureau of Supply on and after January first, nineteen hundred and six: Provided, That all food stuffs and toilet articles required by the Constabulary for sale in the provincial branch civil supply stores shall be secured by the Bureau of Constabulary from the Bureau of Supply upon timely requisition, and the Bureau of Constabulary shall accept delivery, without surcharge, of all such supplies from the Purchasing Agent in the city of Manila, all transportation from the warehouses of the Bureau of Supply to be at cost of the Bureau of Constabulary: And provided further, That the Secretary of Public Instruction shall discontinue the supply store in the city of Manila as soon as in his judgment such action may properly be taken, the provisions of existing laws to the contrary notwithstanding. (c) Unless otherwise provided by this Act, the Bureau of Supply, in addition to the duties and services required by this section, shall perform the duties and render the services now prescribed by law for the Bureau of the Insular Purchasing Agent.