District chief of Constabulary; duties and powers.
Section 17
SEC. 17. District chief of Constabulary; duties and powers.—The district chief of Constabulary at Zamboanga in charge of the Constabulary in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu shall discharge his duties under the supervision of the Chief of Constabulary, subject to such special control by the department governor as has been hereinbefore provided. The Constabulary. force shall be supported by funds appropriated from the Insular Treasury in like manner as the Constabulary force in the other parts of the Islands is supported. He shall exercise such authority and perform such duties -municipal police. in connection with the municipal police as may be required by law. In case the revenues of a municipality do not allow of its organizing, maintaining, and equipping its municipal police in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the department governor may authorize the payment of the necessary sum from provincial funds. ARTICLE 7.—Public works.