Section 11
SEC. 11. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in any position not mentioned in Act Numbered Twenty-six hundred and sixty-eight, for which a salary of three thousand pesos per annum or more has been appropriated, such position shall be filled at a salary not to exceed three thousand pesos per annum, unless the Council of State, after due investigation of the needs of the service, shall determine otherwise; but such salary shall in no case be greater than authorized by law.