Section 4
SEC. 4. The lieutenant-governors shall have power to appoint such permanent assistants, clerks, and employees in their offices as may be approved by the provincial board. The number and salary of such employees shall be reported by them to the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago, who shall have the power to abolish such subordinate offices or reduce salaries; and no increase shall be made in the number of such employees or the amount of such salaries after having been reduced by the Treasurer of the Philippine Archipelago before his approval of the proposed increase shall have been obtained: Provided, That after March first, nineteen hundred and three, such employees shall be selected in accordance with the rules and restrictions of the Civil Service Act and the Acts amendatory thereof. The salaries of the officers and employees provided for in this Act shall be paid from the provincial treasury.