Section 4
SEC. 4. Upon certification of the Insular Auditor that the average annual operating expenses of administration of any regularly organized province, which are payable from its general fund, during the four years immediately preceding that in which this Act has been approved, had not exceeded the average annual revenue collections for the said fund during the said period and that the existing condition of its finances is such that no overdraft is likely to occur in its general fund during the year, the provincial board may, by resolution approved by the Secretary of the Interior, increase the salary of the provincial governor by not more than twelve hundred pesos per annum: Provided, however, That if after the salary of the governor of any province has been increased by virtue of the provisions hereof, such province incurs an overdraft in its general fund or the operating expenses thereof exceed the revenue collections, the Secretary of the Interior shall reduce the salary of that provincial governor to the amount fixed in sections two and three of this Act during the following year, the provisions of this section to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, further, That the increase of salary authorized in this section shall not take effect before October sixteenth, nineteen hundred and thirty-one.