[ Act No. 1473, April 16, 1906 ]

AN ACT PROVIDING THAT ONE FISCAL SHALL PERFORM THE DUTIES OF FISCAL FOR THE PROVINCES OF PAMPANGA AND TARLAC, ABOLISHING THE OFFICES OF FISCAL OF THE SAID PROVINCES AS HERETOFORE AUTHORIZED BY LAW. FIXING THE SALARY OF THE FISCAL FOR THE TWO PROVINCES, AND MAKING PROVISION FOR TRAVELING EXPENSES FOR SUCH FISCAL.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. The duties of fiscal for, the Provinces of Pampanga and Tarlac hereafter shall be performed by one fiscal whose salary shall be three thousand two hundred pesos per annum, of which two thousand pesos shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Pampanga and one thousand' two hundred pesos from the treasury of the Province of Tarlac. The fiscal for the two provinces shall reside at San Fernando, Province of Pampanga. Such traveling expenses of the fiscal in the Province of Pampanga as are authorized by law shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Pampanga, and like traveling expenses in the Province of Tarlac shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Tarlac. The necessary expenses in traveling from the capital of one of such provinces to that of the other in the performance of his duties as fiscal shall be borne five-eighths by the Province of Pampanga and three-eighths by the Province of Tarlac.    The expenses of such clerical assistance, if any, as shall be authorized for the fiscal shall be paid five-eighths by the Province of Pampanga and three-eighths by the Province of Tarlac.SEC. 2. The offices of fiscal of the Provinces of Pampanga and Tarlac as heretofore authorized by law are hereby abolished and the fiscal authorized by section one of this Act shall have power to perform all the duties appertaining by law to the office of fiscal in each of said Provinces of Pampanga and Tarlac.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 April twentieth, nineteen hundred and six.Enacted, April 10, 1906.

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