Section 4
SEC. 4. After March first, nineteen hundred and three, the provincial secretary-treasurer and the provincial supervisor shall be selected under the provisions and restrictions of the Civil Service Act. The provincial secretary-treasurer shall be able to speak and write the Spanish language, and. after January first, nineteen hundred and six, the English language also. The provincial supervisor shall be a competent civil engineer and surveyor. Before the secretary-treasurer shall qualify he shall give a bond to the Insular Government for the benefit of whom it may concern, with sufficient surety, in the sum of five thousand dollars; the surety, or sureties, shall be approved by the Treasurer for the Philippine Archipelago. The bond shall be conditioned to secure the faithful performance of the duties of the office as now or hereafter prescribed by law, and for the accounting for all funds coming into his hands as secretary-treasurer, or into those of his authorized deputies, during his incumbency, and in case of death or removal, until the statement of his accounts by the Treasurer for the Philippine Archipelago. His bond shall, after its approval, be filed with the Treasurer for the Philippine Archipelago, who shall record the same in a book to be supervision, kept for the purpose and shall safely keep the same. The Treasurer for the Philippine. Archipelago shall exercise the same supervision over his office that he exercises over the offices of provincial treasurers in the provinces organized under the Provincial Government Act.