Section 1
SECTION 1. Commissioned officers of the Philippine Health Service assigned as district health officers to any province constituting a health district in accordance with the provisions of section nine hundred and seventy-eight of the Administrative Code, shall receive compensation in accordance with the following scale: (a) For first-class provinces, four thousand five hundred pesos per annum. (b) For second-class province.?, including the Mountain Province, Zamboanga, Palawan, Davao Lanao, Cotabato, and Sulu, four thousand pesos per annum. (c) For third-class provinces, including Agusan, Bukidnon, and Nueva Vizcaya, three thousand six hundred pesos per annum. (d) For fourth-class provinces, three thousand pesos per annum. (e) For fifth- and sixth-class provinces, including Batanes, two thousand four hundred pesos per annum: Provided, That no district health officer shall receive a salary exceeding the salary assigned by law to his rank more than twelve hundred pesos per annum.