Section 4
SEC. 4. The public funds and other property of the Government of Mindanao and Sulu shall be transferred to the Department of the Interior, which is hereby authorized to make the necessary transfers to the proper branches of the public service. The Secretary of the Interior is further authorized, subject to the approval of the presiding officers of both Houses of the Legislature, to make arrangements as to the details and other items of the appropriations for the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes and the Department of Mindanao and Sulu for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twenty, specifying the positions to be continued or created in the Department of the Interior or in the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes, fixing their respective titles and compensations, including the positions of Director and Assistant Director of the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes who, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, may be paid such per diems as said Secretary may authorize, any provision of existing law to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, That the total expenditure shall not exceed the sums now appropriated and available for said Bureau and for the Government of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu: And provided, further, That the Insular officers, with the approval of the proper Department Secretary, may be detailed to perform the duties in connection with the provincial and municipal administration, in addition to their other duties, and may in this case, be allowed such additional compensation as the Secretary of the Interior shall direct.