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[ Act No. 1321, April 13, 1905 ]

AN ACT ABOLISHING THE OFFICE OF FISCAL FOR THE PROVINCE OF ORIENTAL NEGROS AND PROVIDING THAT THE DUTIES OF THE FISCAL FOR THAT PROVINCE SHALL BE PERFORMED BY THE FISCAL OF THE PROVINCE OF CEBU.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. The office of fiscal for the Province of Oriental Negros is hereby abolished.

SEC. 2. The duties imposed by law upon the fiscal for the Province of Oriental Negros shall hereafter be performed by the fiscal of the Province of Cebu. In view of the additional duties hereby imposed upon the fiscal of the Province of Cebu the salary for the fiscal of the two provinces shall be two thousand nine hundred dollars, United States currency, per annum, but the fiscal shall appoint and shall pay for, out of his salary, a deputy fiscal to reside at Dumaguete in the Province of Oriental Negros. One thousand eight hundred dollars of the salary of the fiscal shall be paid by the Province of Cebu and one thousand one hundred dollars by the Province of Oriental Negros. The necessary traveling expenses incurred by the fiscal in going for Dumaguete from Cebu and in returning to Cebu in the performance, of his official duties as fiscal of the Province of Oriental Negros shall be paid by the Province of Oriental Negros, and all necessary traveling expenses for the fiscal or his deputy in the Province of Oriental Negros which would by law be paid by that province in case a regular fiscal had been continued in the province as heretofore, shall be paid by the Province of Oriental Negros.

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect May first, nineteen hundred and five.

Enacted, April 13, 1905.
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