[ Act No. 1536, August 31, 1906 ]

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

By authority of the United Stales, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. The duties of fiscal for the Provinces of Misamis and Surigao hereafter shall be performed by one fiscal, whose salary shall be three thousand pesos per annum, of which two thousand pesos shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Misamis and one thousand pesos from the treasury of the Province of Surigao. The fiscal for the two province shall reside at Surigao, Province of Surigao. Such traveling expenses of the fiscal in the Province of Misamis as are authorized by law shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Misamis, and the traveling expenses in the Province of Surigao shall be paid from  treasury of the Province of Surigao. The necessary expenses traveling from the capital of one of such provinces to that of first other in the performance of his duties as fiscal shall be borne two-thirds by the Province of Misamis and one-third by the Provice of Surigao.  The   expense of such clerical assistance  if anv, as shall be an authorized for the fiscal shall be paid two-thirds by the Province of Misamis and one-third by the Province of Surigao.SEC. 2. The ofiSees of fiscal of the Provinces of Misaniis and  Surigao as heretofate authorized by law are hereby abolished and the fiscal authorized bisection one of this Act shall have power to Power  and  duty perform the duties appertaining by law to the office of fiscal inn each of said Provinces of Miisamis and Surigao.                                                             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 October first, nineteen hundred and six.Enacted, August 31, 1906.

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