Appointment of city officials-- Compensation.
Section 4
Sec. 4. Appointment of city officials-- Compensation. - The President of the Philippines shall appoint, with the consent of the Commission on Appointments of the National Assembly, the mayor, the vice-mayor, the city secretary, the members of the City Council, the city health officer, the city engineer, the chief of police, the city treasurer, the city assessor, the city attorney, and the assistant city attorney, and he may remove at pleasure any of them. He may appoint to any of the above-named offices persons already holding official positions. In case of sickness, absence, or inability to serve for any reason of any of the aforementioned officials, the President of the Philippines may make a temporary appointment or designation until the return to duty of such official. During the period of such temporary appointment or designation, the person so appointed or designated shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties pertaining to the office of the mayor shall receive a compensation of not more than seven thousand two hundred pesos per annum. Ihe city secretary shall receive three thousand six hundred pesos per annum. The members of the City Council, including die vice mayor, shall receive a per diem of twenty pesos for each day of attendance at the session of the City Council. The compensation of other officers and employees of the city shall be determined by ordinance approved by the Secretary of the Interior. The President of the Philippines is authorized to organize immediately the government nf the city, and to that end he may pay and advance from any fund of the Treasury of the Philippines not otherwise appropriated such amount as may be necessary, not exceeding die sum of two hundred thousend pesos. Pending such organization, the territory comprised in said city shall continue to be subject to the jurisdiction and control of the respective municipalities to which they belong at the time of the approval of this Act.