Provincial officers in general.
Section 22
SEC. 22. Provincial officers in general.—Except as herein after provided, the officers of each provincial government organized under this chapter shall be a provincial governor, a provincial secretary-treasurer, and a third member of the provincial board. With the exception of the third member, residence in the capital of provinces shall be mandatory for members of the provincial board. (a) Qualifications.—No person shall be appointed nor shall he be eligible for any of these offices who is not either a citizen of the United States or a native of the Philippine Islands, or who, not being a subject or citizen of any other power or government, may have under and by virtue of the treaty of Paris acquired the political rights of a native of the Philippine Islands; or who may hereafter become a naturalized citizen of the Philippine Islands; or who, having taken the oath of allegiance to the United States, shall violate the same. The fact of nonresidence in the province shall not be a bar to appointment to a provincial office or employment. (b) Appointment.—The provincial governor shall be appointed by the department governor subject to the approval of the Governor-General; the secretary-treasurer shall be appointed by the department governor subject to the provisions of the Civil Service Act; and the third member shall be elected by a plurality of the votes of all the councilors of municipalities duly organized and such officers in municipal districts, within the province, as may be authorized to vote in accordance with the provisions of section fifty-two hereof. (c) Election.—Within one year after the completion and publication of the census for the territory known as the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, under the provisions of Act Numbered Twenty-three hundred and fifty-two, or as soon thereafter as the department governor shall certify to the Governor-General that existing conditions in all or any of the provinces herein created justify the holding of such election, the Governor-General shall, by executive order, fix the date for a general election for the offices of provincial governor and third member of the provincial board for the province or provinces certified to by the department governor, in accordance with the provisions of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two as amended. (d) Salaries.—Provincial governors shall each receive an annual salary not to exceed six thousand pesos and provincial secretary-treasurers an annual salary not to exceed five thousand pesos, said salaries to be fixed by the department governor in the appointment and approved by the Governor-General with the appointment. The third member of the provincial board shall receive a compensation to be fixed by resolution of the provincial board of not less than five nor more than fifteen pesos for each day of actual attendance at the sessions of the board or for other duties he may be designated by the provincial board to perform: Provided, however, That on no one day shall more than one compensation be allowed to such third member. Provincial health officers shall each receive an annual -health officers, salary not exceeding five thousand pesos, to be fixed by the department governor in the appointment and approved by the Governor-General with the appointment: Provided, however, That provincial health officers shall not be permitted to engage in private practice. The salaries of provincial officers shall be paid out of -how paid-provincial funds: Provided, however, That the salaries herein provided shall be modified to conform with the general schedule of salaries prescribed for regularly organized provinces as soon as general provincial elections are held in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (c) of section twenty-two hereof.