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Act No. 223 Section 3

Act No. 223 Section 3

Section 3

SEC. 3. Said Provincial Government Act as amended shall be further amended by adding the following additional sections: "SEC. 39. No provincial official shall leave his province without obtaining permission so to do from the Civil Governor. "SEC. 40. The actual and necessary traveling expenses of the deputies, subordinates, and other employees of provincial officers engaged in traveling in the province on official business shall be paid from the provincial treasury when authorized by the provincial board and approved by the Insular-Treasurer. The same limitation as to the amount of expenses per day which applies to the traveling expenses of the provincial officers shall apply to those herein authorized. "SEC. 41. In applying the statutory limitation upon the amount per day which can be actually expended and reimbursed to provincial officers and their subordinates for expenses in traveling on official business for the province, under any one of the special acts organizing the various provinces, the total actual traveling expenses for each quarter shall be added together and divided by the number of days of the quarter during which the officer or his subordinate has been absent on public business in the province from the capital thereof; and if the amount per day thus calculated and averaged for the quarter does not exceed the limitation of maximum per diem expenses authorized in special acts, the whole amount actually expended shall be allowed to the officer or his subordinate. "SEC. 42. The regulations and general orders of the Military Governor prescribing the internal-revenue taxes are hereby amended in so far as to abolish the urbana taxes, from and after the first of January, nineteen hundred and two. in all provinces organized under the General Provincial Act, and in all municipalities organized under the Municipal Code, whether within organized provinces or not. "SEC. 43. In all cases in which by the special provincial acts provision is made for the meetings of the presidents of the municipalities of the province at the capital of the province, the actual expenses of the presidents for the necessary travel from their respective municipalities to the capital for their attendance at the meeting in the capital and for their return to their respective municipalities shall be paid out of the provincial treasury by order of the provincial board; but the expenses shall not exceed the maximum limitation imposed by law upon the traveling expenses of provincial officials."

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