Section 4
SEC. 4. The position of provincial secretary is hereby abolished and the employees of his office are hereby transferred to the office of the provincial governor: Provided, however, That the provincial secretary may on recommendation of the provincial board, with the approval of the Governor-General, be continued in office until the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and six. The provincial governor shall, by an executive order, designate an employee or employees of his office to perform the duties heretofore performed by the provincial secretary, including those of recorder of the provincial board. In case the provincial governor shall certify that no employee in his office is competent to perform said duties, and the Bureau of Civil Service shall certify that its eligible list contains the name of no person who will accept the appointment for the salary allowed, the provincial governor may, with the approval of the Governor-General; appoint some person who is not in the classified civil service, or he may perform such duties personally should he so elect: And provided further, That a provincial secretary holding of]ice on the date of the passage of this Act shall be eligible to appointment to any position in the classified civil service at a salary not exceeding the .salary now received by him.