Section 6
SEC. 6. All physicians now occupying salaried positions as health qr medical officers in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, except medical officers of the Philippine Constabulary, shall be commissioned in the Philippine Health Service and shall have rank within their respective grades with other officers of the Philippine Health Service, in accordance with their length of service. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to legislate out of the service, or to reduce the salary and privileges enjoyed by any person occupying a position under the health or medical service in said department while serving in said department. Whenever any officer shall hereafter be transferred from the division of Mindanao and Sulu to duty with the Philippine Health Service in any other division, such transfer shall be made at the base pay of his grade, plus such benefits from seniority and length of service as are provided in chapter twentyrfive of the Administrative Code. Medical officers commissioned as herein provided shall be entitled to civil service privileges from the date Act Numbered Twenty-four hundred and sixty-eight, reorganizing the Philippine Health Service, became effective.