[ Act No. 26, October 17, 1900 ]

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE EMPLOYMENT BY THE PHILIPPINE CIVIL SERVICE BOARD OF CERTAIN EMPLOYEES AND EMPOWERING THE BOARD TO FIX THEIR SALARIES WITHIN AN AGGREGATE LIMIT.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. The Philippine Civil Service Board is hereby authorized to employ, subject to the limitations of the Civil Service Act and of an Act entitled "An Act providing for the appointment and removal of subordinate officers and employees in certain Departments and Bureaus of the Government of the Philippine Islands," passed October seventeenth, nineteen hundred, two examiners, one Spanish interpreter, two stenographers and typewriters, two clerks, and two messengers, and to fix their salaries: Provided, the aggregate amount of such salaries shall not exceed in one year eight thousand seven hundred dollars in the money of the United States.SEC. 2. Upon the appointment of such employees said the fixing of their salaries the Philippine Civil Service Board shall certify its action through the Military Governor to the Commission.SEC. 3. The Philippine Civil Service Board is authorized to incur such necessary expense for the printing of circulars, pamphlets examination papers, and other documents as the Board shall deem proper, subject to the approval of the Military Governor.SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.Enacted, October 17, 1900.

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