QuestionsQuestions (Act No. 222)
Act No. 222 created the Department of the Interior, the Department of Commerce and Police, the Department of Finance and Justice, and the Department of Public Instruction.
It includes the Bureau of Health, Quarantine Service (Marine Hospital Corps), Bureau of Forestry, Bureau of Mining, Bureau of Agriculture, Bureau of Fisheries, Weather Bureau, Bureau of Pagan and Mohammedan Tribes, Bureau of Public Lands, Bureau of Government Laboratories, and Bureau of Patents and Copyrights.
It includes the Bureau of Island and Inter-Island Transportation, Bureau of Post-Offices, Bureau of Telegraphs, Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey, Bureau of Engineering and Construction of Public Works (other than public buildings), Bureau of Insular Constabulary, Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Light-Houses, and Bureau of Commercial and Street Railroad Corporations (and all corporations except banking).
It includes the Bureau of the Insular Treasury, Bureau of the Insular Auditor, Bureau of Customs and Immigration, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant, Bureau of Banks/Banking/Coinage/Currency, and Bureau of Justice.
It includes the Bureau of Public Instruction, Bureau of Public Charities, Public Libraries and Museums, Bureau of Statistics, Bureau of Public Records, Bureau of Public Printing, and Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings.
The secretaries exercise their control under the general supervision of the Civil Governor.
Through the Executive Secretary.
While departments have executive control over matters assigned to them, the Civil Governor exercises executive control directly (via the Executive Secretary) over provincial and municipal governments and the civil service under the central government’s legal authority.
Each department consists of the secretary and such assistant clerks and other employees as may be provided by law.
It may be recorded by direction of the head of the department in the office of the Executive Secretary.
Clerical work that is needed in each department and conveniently done in the Executive Secretary’s office may be done there by direction of the head of each department.
No. Section 7 states that nothing in Act No. 222 affects the powers conferred by Act No. 90, nor the independence of judgment of the Auditor in auditing and adjudicating the validity of accounts.
The Auditor’s independence of judgment in auditing and adjudicating the validity of accounts presented to him in accordance with law.
Section 8 states that passage was expedited in accordance with Section 2 of “An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws,” passed September 26, 1900.
It takes effect on its passage.
It serves as the legislative premise/authority in the preamble, stating that the President of the United States, through the Secretary of War, directed the establishment and appointed persons as secretaries or heads of the departments.
It refers to the executive control conferred by law over the bureaus/agencies enumerated under each department’s section, exercised under the general supervision of the Civil Governor.