Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. The Provincial Board of Batanes is hereby authorized to separate the office of provincial secretary from that of provincial treasurer. The provisions of section two thousand and ninety-eight of the Administrative Code, as amended by Acts Numbered Thirty-four hundred and seventy-six, and Thirty-six hundred and eighty-two, are hereby made extensive and applicable to the Province of Batanes.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, November 13, 1931.