Section 2
SEC. 2. Section twenty-one hundred and eighty-four of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended by Republic Act Numbered One hundred and three, is further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2184. Maximum limit of salaries.-Except as otherwise specially provided, the annual salaries of municipal officers shall not exceed the amounts hereinbelow fixed: "In municipalities of the First Class-A: For the mayor, thirty-seven hundred and twenty pesos; for the municipal, secretary, twenty-two hundred and eighty pesos and for the municipal treasurer, thirty-four hundred and twenty pesos of which two-thirds shall be payable out of municipal funds, in his capacity as municipal treasurer, and one-third thereof out of provincial funds, in his capacity as deputy of the provincial treasurer. "In municipalities of the First Class-B: For the mayor, thirty-three hundred and sixty pesos; for the municipal secretary, two thousand and forty pesos and for the municipal treasurer, three thousand and sixty pesos, of which two-thirds shall be payable out of municipal funds, in his capacity as municipal treasurer, and one-third thereof out of provincial funds, in his capacity as deputy of the provincial treasurer. "In municipalities of the first class: For the mayor, three thousand pesos; for the municipal secretary, eighteen hundred pesos; and for the municipal treasurer, twenty-seven hundred pesos, of which two-thirds shall be payable out of municipal funds, in his capacity as municipal treasurer, and one-third thereof out of provincial funds, in his capacity as deputy of the provincial treasurer. "In municipalities of the second class: For the mayor, twenty-live hundred and twenty pesos; for the municipal secretary, sixteen hundred and twenty-pesos; and for the municipal treasurer, twenty-one hundred and sixty pesos, of which two-thirds shall be payable out of municipal funds, in his capacity as municipal treasurer, and one-third thereof out of provincial funds, in his capacity as deputy of the provincial treasurer. "In municipalities of the third class: For the mayor, twenty-one hundred and sixty pesos; for the municipal secretary, thirteen hundred and eighty pesos; and for the municipal treasurer, nineteen hundred and twenty pesos, of which two-thirds shall be payable out of municipal funds, in his capacity as municipal treasurer, and one-third thereof out of provincial funds, in his capacity as deputy of the provincial treasurer. "In municipalities of the fourth class: For the mayor, nineteen hundred and twenty pesos; for the municipal secretary, twelve hundred pesos; and for the municipal treasurer,sixteen hundred and eighty pesos, of which two- shall be payable out of municipal funds, in his capacity as municipal treasurer, and one-third thereof out of provincial funds, in his capacity as deputy of the provincial treasurer. "In municipalities of the fifth class: For the mayor sixteen hundred and eighty pesos; for the municipal secretary, eleven hundred and forty pesos; and for the municipal treasurer, fourteen hundred and forty pesos, of which two-thirds shall be payable out of municipal funds in his capacity as municipal treasurer, and one-third thereof out of provincial funds, in his capacity as deputy of the provincial treasurer. "From the decisions of the Provincial Board with regard to salaries and per diems of municipal officers and/or abolition of any municipal position, the municipal officer or council concerned or any member of the provincial board having expressed his disconformity when the resolution objected to was passed, may appeal, and such appeal shall, within ten days after its receipt by the Provincial Board, be forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Finance, as the case may be, whose decision shall be final. "Provided, That the Provincial Board of any province may, in respect to salaries of municipal treasurers in their capacity as deputy of provincial treasurers, authorize as share of the province an amount greater than one-half of the share actually contributed by any municipality, provided the maximum salary rates fixed in this Act are not exceeded."