Section 13
SEC. 13. (a) No provincial official shall leave the province without obtaining permission so to do from the Civil Governor. (b) Should the Civil Governor have reason to believe that any provincial officer is guilty of disloyalty, dishonesty, oppression, or misconduct in office, he may suspend him from the discharge of the duties of his office, and, after due notice tot he suspended officer, shall investigate the cause of suspension and either remove him, with the advice and consent of the Commission, from office, or reinstate him, as the circumstances may require; pending the suspension of the provincial officer the Civil Governor shall have the power temporarily to appoint a person who shall in the interim discharge the duties of the suspended officer, and in case the suspended officer is the secretary-treasurer, to make such provision with respect to the bond of the temporary appointee as may to him seem wise. The temporary appointee shall receive the same compensation as is given by law to the permanent appointee, to be paid from the provincial treasury as other salaries. In case the suspension results in a removal, the removed appointee shall not receive any compensation from and after the date of his suspension. Should he be reinstated, it shall be in the discretion of the Civil Governor to direct that his compensation, during the period of his suspension, shall be withheld, or paid from the provincial treasury. Suspension or removal under this section shall not prevent the institution of criminal proceedings against the person suspended or removed. Every provincial officer shall be subject to prosecution, for a criminal act committed by him, in Courts of First Instance, in the same manner as any other person. (c) In case of the absence of any provincial officer the Civil Governor shall have power to appoint a person to perform the duties of the office during such absence. (d) Vacancies in provincial offices created by removal, resignation, or death shall be filled by appointment by the Civil Governor within thirty days after the vacancy occurs.