Section 1
SECTION 1. Provincial treasurers are hereby authorized to cash from provincial funds checks issued by disbursing officers of the Insular Government in payment of salaries due to officers, employees, and servants of the Insular Government and in payment of other obligations due from the Insular Government, upon the proper endorsement of such checks and identification of the payee, and to treat the checks so received as cash on hand in the provincial treasury. And it is hereby made the duty of each provincial treasurer to cash such checks, when presented in accordance with the provisions of this section, at all times when such checks can be cashed without embarrassment to the provincial treasurer. The term "provincial treasurer" as used in this section shall include deputies of the provincial treasurer when traveling through the province making collections. Provincial treasurers are also hereby authorized to dispose of, for cash, checks so received to persons desiring to transmit funds to Manila. All checks so cashed or sold shall be cashed or sold at par.