Relations between the City of Iloilo and the province of Iloilo.
Section 7
SEC. 7. Relations between the City of Iloilo and the province of Iloilo.—The City of Iloilo shall continue as part of the Second Assembly District of the Province of Iloilo, being represented in the National Assembly by the Assemblyman for said District, who shall be elected by the voters of the City of Iloilo and other municipalities of the Province of Iloilo which compose the Second Assembly District. The voters of said City of Iloilo shall take part in the election of the provincial officers of Iloilo but the latter shall have no jurisdiction over the City of Iloilo and the officers of the same, except as provided in section nineteen hereof. However, in consideration of the privileges and exemptions, enjoyed by the provincial government within the city and of the responsibilities imposed on the same through the establishment in the City of Iloilo of the capital of the province, the provincial board of Iloilo shall be obliged to create a permanent continuing annual appropriation of not less than fifty thousand pesos nor more than one honored thousand pesos, to be credited to the general funds of the city. The Auditor General shall see to the enforcement of this provision of law and shall transfer to the City of Iloilo at the beginning of each year, from any funds in the provincial treasury of Iloilo not otherwise appropriated a sum not less than fifty thousand pesos, unless the provincial government shall have previously voted a greater sum.