[ Act No. 2787, January 31, 1919 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SIX HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO, AUTHORIZING THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES TO CONTRACT FOR TECHNICAL SERVICES, UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS.

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 provision of section one of Act Numbered Twenty-six hundred and seventy-two, fixing the salaries of the officers, professors, instructors, and other employees of the University of the Philippines is hereby declared to be of permanent character; Provided, That whenever the needs of the University may require it, the services of professors, instructors, lecturers, and other technical employees from the United States or foreign countries may be contracted for temporarily, with the approval of the presiding officers of both Houses of the Legislature, concurred in by the Governor-General, at salaries in excess of those fixed in said Act; but no professor, instructor, lecturer, or technical employee at present in the service at a salary in excess of that fixed by section one of Act Numbered Twenty-six hundred and seventy-two shall receive a compensation, whether under contract or otherwise, greater than that which he may receive at present. 

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

Approved, January 31, 1919.

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