Section 22
SEC. 22. The Collector of Customs for the Philippine Archipelago is hereby authorized to retain such of the clerks, guards, watchmen, boatmen, sailors and marines as are at present employed under the orders of the coast district inspectors, local presidents, or other persons acting as customs inspectors, already appointed, and to appoint such additional clerks, guards, watchmen, boatmen, sailors, and marines as may be necessary to properly assist the coast district inspectors, deputy coast district inspectors, local presidents, or other persons acting as such customs inspectors, provided in the preceding section of this Act and in the Philippine Customs Administrative Act, and to fix the salaries or wages of such retained or additional clerks, guards, watchmen, boatmen, sailors, and marines, said salaries or wages in no case to exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars per month for clerks and twenty dollars per month for the other classes of such employees.