Section 7
SEC. 7. The same Act is amended by inserting between Sections ten and eleven thereof a new section to be Known as Section ten-A, to read as follows: "SEC. 10-A. Assistant Secretary.—There shall be an assistant secretary to the Mayor who shall assist u secretary to the Mayor in the discharge of his official duties and perform such other duties as the Major may require of him. "The position of the assistant secretary shall be regarded as within the unclassified civil service but may be filled in the manner in which classified positions are filled, and if so filled, the appointee shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges of classified employees, except that he shall hold office only during the term of the appointing Mayor and until a successor in the office of assistant secretary is appointed and qualified, unless sooner separated. "In the absence of the secretary, or in cases of illness or inability of the secretary to discharge his duties, the assistant secretary shall assume the powers and duties of the former. He shall receive a salary of not less than six thousand six hundred pesos per annum."