[ Act No. 1590, February 12, 1907 ]

AN ACT REPEALING ACT NUMBERED FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-THREE, ENTITLED "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," AND PROVIDING THAT ONE FISCAL SHALL PERFORM THE DUTIES OF FISCAL FOR THE PROVINCES OF TARLAC AND NUEVA ECIJA, ABOLISHING THE OFFICE OF FISCAL OF THE LATTER PROVINCE AND THAT OF FISCAL FOR THE PROVINCES OF PAMPANGA AND TARLAC AS HERETOFORE AUTHORIZED BY LAW, AND RE-CREATING THE OFFICE OF FISCAL FOR THE PROVINCE OF PAMPANGA.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and seventy-three, entitled "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." is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. The duties of fiscal for the Provinces of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija hereafter shall be performed by one fiscal whose salary shall be three thousand pesos per annum, of which one thousand five hundred pesos shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Tarlac and one thousand live bundled pesos from the treasury of the Province of Nueva Ecija.  The fiscal of these two provinces shall reside at Tarlac, Province of Tarlac, and shall perform all the duties imposed by law upon provincial fiscals.  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 equally by the Provinces of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija. The expenses of such clerical assistance, if any, as shall be authorized for the fiscal shall be paid equally by the Provinces of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija.SEC. 3. The office of the fiscal of the Province of Nueva Ecija and that of fiscal for the Provinces of Pampanga and Tarlac as heretofore authorized by law are hereby abolished, and the office of fiscal for the Province of Pampanga is hereby re-created, and from and after the date on which this Act shall take effect the salary of the fiscal of the Province of Pampanga shall be two thousand seven hundred  pesos per annum, and said fiscal shall perform all the duties imposed by law upon provincial fiscals.SEC. 4. 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven.Enacted, February 12, 1907.

Source: Supreme Court E-Library