Section 4
SEC. 4. The office of Chief of Insular Constabulary is hereby created, the incumbent of which shall be appointed by the Civil Governor, by and with the consent of the Commission. He shall be a peace officer, shall be the head of the Insular Constabulary, and shall have general charge and control thereof, and shall see that brigandage, insurrection, unlawful assemblies, and breaches of the peace and other violations of law are prevented or suppressed and the perpetrators of such offenses arrested, and peace, law, and order maintained. He shall be paid an annual salary of four thousand dollars. It shall be his duty to see that the Insular Constabulary hereby created is properly selected and organized, and that it is suitably armed, uniformed, equipped, governed, disciplined, and in all respects made and kept effective for the performance of its duties. He is hereby given authority, and it is made his duty, to appoint at least one provincial inspector, and as many more not exceeding four, as in his judgment the public interest requires, for each province in the Philippine Islands, who shall be citizens of the United States or of the Philippine Islands, or have the rights of natives under the Treaty of Paris. The Insular Chief is also given authority to suspend, and, after due hearing, to remove, any provincial r inspector or other member of the Insular Constabulary for inefficiency, misconduct, or disloyalty to the United States. He is further given authority to fill all vacancies by making temporary or permanent appointments, occurring by reason of the suspension, removal, resignation, death, or disability to act of any provincial inspector, sergeant, corporal, or private of the Insular Constabulary. The Insular Chief is also empowered and directed to make reasonable and proper rules for examination for the appointment of any provincial inspector and for selection and promotion of the sergeants, corporals, and privates of the Insular Constabulary.