Section 2
SEC. 2. Section twenty-four hundred and ninety of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, as amended by Act Numbered Twenty-nine hundred and seventy-seven, is hereby further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2490. Constitution and compensation of Board of Tax Appeals.—The Board of Tax Appeals shall be composed of seven members who shall be appointed by the Governor-General on the first day of July of each year in which the first regular session of each Legislature shall begin, four of whom shall be owners of real estate in the city, and two shall be selected from a list of ten persons to be submitted to the Governor-General by the 'Asociacion de Propietarios de Manila,' which list shall be submitted to him by the said association not later than the fifteenth day of June of each year in which the first regular session of each Legislature shall begin. Should the said list not be submitted by the aforesaid association within the time fixed herein, the Governor-General shall select such two members in his own discretion: Provided, That the first appointment made under this Act shall not be made later than the first working day of the month of January of the year nineteen hundred and thirty. "The members of the Board of Tax Appeals, except the chairman, shall receive a compensation of twenty pesos for each day on which they attend the sessions and serve as members of the Board. "The chairman of the Board of Tax Appeals shall be designated in the appointment of the Governor-General and shall receive forty pesos for each day on which he attends the sessions. The secretary of the Board shall be appointed by the chairman thereof with the concurrence of a majority of its members and shall keep the records of the proceedings of the Board. The secretary shall receive such salary as the Board may fix."