Section 14
SEC. 14. Section thirty-seven of Commonwealth Act Numbered Three hundred and twenty-six is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 37. Appointment and removal of officials and employees—Compensation.—The President shall appoint, with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the National Assembly, the judge and auxiliary judge of the Municipal Court, the city engineer, the city treasurer, the city assessor, the city attorney and the assistant city attorney, the chief of police, and the other heads of the city departments as may be created from time to time, and he may remove at pleasure any of the said appointive officers, except the judge and the auxiliary judge of the Municipal Court who may be removed only according to law. "Subject to the provisions of the Civil Service Law, the Mayor shall appoint all other officers and employees of the city whose appointment is not otherwise provided for by law. The suspension or removal of officers and employees appointed by the Mayor shall be subject to the provisions of Executive Order Numbered Thirty-nine of the President of the Philippines and of Commonwealth Act Numbered One hundred and seventy-seven. The Mayor may recommend to the President of the Philippines the suspension or removal of any official or employee of the city appointed by the latter. "The municipal judge, the city auditor, and the city attorney shall each receive three thousand six hundred pesos per annum. The assistant city attorney shall receive not less than one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum. The city engineer and the city treasurer whether acting or not as city assessor shall each receive not less than three thousand six hundred pesos per annum. The chief of police shall receive a compensation of not less than three thousand pesos per annum: Provided, however, That the city council shall determine and fix by ordinance the salaries of officers and employees of the city, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior and of the head of the Department of the National Government to whose administrative supervision such officers and employees of the city are subject: And, provided, further, That in case of failure to' make an appropriation for such salaries, the salaries so fixed in the preceding fiscal year shall be paid without the necessity of further appropriations therefor."