Question & AnswerQ&A (Act No. 360)
The primary purpose of Act No. 360 is to reorganize the office of the United States Philippine Commission by authorizing specific positions and fixing their salaries.
One private secretary is authorized for each member of the United States Philippine Commission, except for the President thereof.
The secretary of the Commission is authorized an annual compensation of three thousand five hundred dollars.
The Act authorizes one Tagalog-Spanish interpreter and translator, who shall be compensated at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum.
Section three of Act Numbered One hundred and two, which regulates the salaries of officers and employees in the Philippine civil service, and all Acts or parts of Acts amendatory thereof, are repealed for employees in the office of the United States Philippine Commission.
The Act authorizes one chief clerk, class five; one disbursing officer, class five; three clerks, class six; two clerks, class seven; four clerks, class eight; and one clerk, class one.
Two messengers are compensated at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum each, and four messengers at the rate of one hundred and eighty dollars per annum each.
This Act took effect on its passage, February 20, 1902.
The passage was expedited because the public good required the speedy enactment, in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September 26, 1900.
Act No. 360 was enacted by the United States Philippine Commission by authority of the President of the United States.