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, and the city attorney, and he may remove at pleasure any of then. He may appoint to any of the above named offices persons already holding official positions. Incase 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 desigiated shall possess all the powers and perform ail the dities pertaining to the office. The mayor shall receive a compensation of not more than three thousand six hundred pesos per annum. A discretionary fund of not exceeding one thousand pesos shall be placed at his disposal by the City Council. The city secretary shall receive a compensation of not exceeding one thousand eight hundred pesos per annum, and the justice of the peace, not exceeding three thousand pesos per annum. The members of the City Council, including die vice-mayor, shall receive a per diem of ten 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 ordinaace approved by the Secretary of the Interior. The President of the Philippines is authorized to organize immediately the government of the city, and to that end he may play aid advance from any fund of the Treasury of the Philippines not otherwise appropriated such anount as may be necessary, not exceeding the sum of two hundred thousand pesos.