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[ Act No. 439, August 04, 1902 ]

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF LAWYERS APPOINTED BY THE SUPREME COURT TO EXAMINE CANDIDATES FOR ADMISSION TO THE BAR.

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

SECTION 1. Each attorney hereafter appointed by the Supreme Court, under the provisions of section two of the Rules of the Supreme Court for the Examination of Candidates for Admission to the Practice of Law, to act as a member of any examination committee appointed as therein provided, shall be paid the sum of twenty dollars, United States currency, for his services on such committee in the examination of all candidates who may properly come before it for examination.

SEC. 2. This compensation shall be made by the disbursing officer of the Bureau of Justice out of the appropriation for "Contingent expenses, Bureau of Justice," against which it is hereby made a proper charge, on presentation of a certificate of the clerk of the Supreme Court that such person was a member of such committee, acted as such, and that the committee has finished its labors.

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 on its passage.

Enacted, August 4, 1902.
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