Section 2
SEC. 2. In order to carry out the purposes of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall, beginning with the year nineteen hundred and twenty-two and for each period of five consecutive years after said date, order a readjustment made of the salaries of the provincial officers on the basis of the rules established in this Act: Provided, That said Secretary of the Interior may, however, apply the schedule of salaries herein established upon the approval of this Act and prior to the year nineteen hundred and twenty-two, to provinces making application therefor, through their respective provincial boards.