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[ Act No. 2066, July 29, 1911 ]

AN ACT AMENDING- ACT NUMBERED EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX, ENTITLED "AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PROVINCE TO BE KNOWN AS THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PRISON AT BONTOC FOR NON-CHRISTIAN CRIMINALS, CHANGING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PROVINCE OF NUEVA VIZCAYA, AMENDING ACT NUMBERED EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN, AS AMENDED, BY CHANGING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL DISTRICT AND THE TIMES AND PLACES OF HOLDING COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE IN THE SAID DISTRICT, PROVIDING FOR PARTICIPATION BY THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF INTERNAL-REVENUE COLLECTIONS, AND REPEALING ALL ACTS OR PARTS OF ACTS INCONSISTENT WITH THIS ACT.'' BY CREATING THE OFFICE OF FISCAL OF THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE; CREATING THE OFFICE OF PROVINCIAL FISCAL OF NUEVA VIZCAYA; ABOLISHING THE POSITION OF FISCAL FOR THE MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL DISTRICT; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

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

SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and seventy-six is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 2. (a) There shall be a governor of the Mountain Province. He shall reside and have his office at Bontoc, which shall be the capital of the province. He shall receive compensation at the rate of not to exceed six thousand pesos per annum, with quarters.
"(b) There shall be a lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Benguet, who shall reside and have his office at Baguio, which shall be the capital of the subprovince. He shall receive compensation at the rate of not to exceed three thousand six hundred pesos per annum, with quarters.
"(c) There shall be a lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Amburavan, who shall reside and have his office at Tagudin, which shall be the capital of the subprovince. He shall receive compensation at the rate of not to exceed three thousand two hundred pesos per annum, with quarters.
"(d) There shall be a lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Ifugao, who shall reside and have his office at Banaue, which shall be the capital of the subprovince. He shall receive compensation at the rate of not to exceed four thousand pesos per annum, with quarters.
"(e) There shall be a lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Lepanto, who shall reside and have his office at Cervantes, which shall be the capital of the subprovinee. He shall receive compensation at the rate of not to exceed three thousand pesos per annum, with quarters.
"(f) There shall be a lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Bontoc, who shall reside and have his office at Bontoc, which shall be the capital of the subprovince. He shall receive compensation at the rate of not to exceed four thousand pesos per annum, with quarters.
"(g) There shall be a lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Kalinga, who shall reside and have his office at Lubuagan, which shall be the capital of the subprovince. He shall receive compensation, at the rate of not to exceed four thousand pesos per annum, with quarters.
"(h) There shall be a lieutenant-governor of the subprovince of Apayao, who shall reside and have his office at Tauit, which shall be the capital of the subprovince. He shall receive compensation at the rate of not to exceed four thousand pesos per annum, with quarters.
"(i) There shall be a secretary-treasurer of the province, who shall reside and have his office at the capital of the province. He shall receive compensation at the rate of not to exceed five thousand pesos per annum, with quarters.
"(j)  There  shall be  a supervisor of the province, who shall  supervisor, reside and have his office at the capital of the province.    He shall receive compensation at the rate of not to exceed four thousand pesos per annum, with quarters.
"(k) There shall be a fiscal of the province, who shall reside Fiscal, and have his office at the capital of the province: Provided, however, That the Governor-General may authorize him to reside and have his office at Baguio in the subprovince of Benguet. He shall receive compensation at the rate of not to exceed three thousand five hundred pesos per annum, with quarters.
"(l)  There shall be such subordinate employees of the Mountain Province as the provincial board shall recommend and the Executive Secretary approve."
SEC. 2. There shall be a fiscal of the Province of Nueva Vizcaya,  who shall receive compensation at the rate of not to exceed three thousand pesos per annum.

SEC. 3. The position of fiscal of the Mountain Judicial District is hereby abolished.

Enacted, July 22, 1911.
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