QuestionsQuestions (Act No. 1407)
The short title is “The Reorganization Act.”
Examples include: Executive Bureau, Bureau of Civil Service, Bureau of Health, Bureau of Lands, Bureau of Science, Bureau of Agriculture, Bureau of Forestry, Bureau of Constabulary, Bureau of Public Works, Bureau of Navigation, Bureau of Posts, Bureau of Justice, Bureau of Audits, Bureau of Customs, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Bureau of Treasury, Bureau of Education, Bureau of Supply, Bureau of Prisons, and Bureau of Printing (others are also listed).
The Executive Bureau has: Executive Secretary, Assistant Executive Secretary, and Second Assistant Executive Secretary. They are appointed by the Governor-General, with the consent of the Philippine Commission.
Executive Secretary: 15,000 pesos per annum. Assistant Executive Secretary: 9,000 pesos per annum.
They were abolished as bureaus and constituted a division of the Executive Bureau called the Division of Archives, Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks, under general supervision and control of the Executive Secretary.
The Official Gazette is published by the Executive Bureau. The Director of Printing performs the printing, sale, and distribution of the Gazette.
The Executive Bureau has general supervision over provincial treasurers’ offices. The duty of auditing their accounts and prescribing bookkeeping systems is performed by the Bureau of Audits.
Approval is subject to the Executive Secretary’s approval instead of the Insular Treasurer’s approval.
The sanitary rule or regulation is submitted to the Governor-General, whose decision is final.
It was abolished, and its duties and services devolved upon the Director of Health, except as otherwise provided in the Act.
Transferred to the Bureau of Agriculture; a Division of Animal Industry was created. The Director of Agriculture must perform the veterinary division’s work, while the Director of Health may request examinations of meat, milk, and other animal products/animals to safeguard public health.
It was abolished as a separate bureau and constituted as the Division of Mines under the Bureau of Science.
Payment of actual cost of producing or serving shall be made by the department/bureau/office/government receiving the supplies from funds duly appropriated for that purpose.
For five years from passage, residents may cut/take or hire cut timber (other than timber of the first group) and firewood, resins, other forest products, and stone/earth for personal use such as housebuilding, fencing, boat building, or family use without license and free of charge. Timber thus cut cannot be sold or exported from the province where cut.
It has exclusive jurisdiction and control over all mail and postal business within the maritime jurisdiction of the Philippine Islands, all telegraph and telephone lines and service transferred to it (and any later transferred services). The Director of Posts must, among others, establish/discontinue post-offices and telegraph/telephone offices; instruct persons in service; decide forms of official papers (except accounts); regulate and control expenses of the bureau subject to auditing; execute postal/telegraph/telephone laws; and handle official records and authentication functions.
When the employee dies leaving real property or real and personal property in the Philippines with entire value not exceeding 1,500 pesos, and no regular administration has been had under the Code of Civil Procedure.
They are appointed by the Secretary of War, with the concurrence of the Governor-General and approval of the Philippine Commission. The Auditor is also designated by the short title “Insular Auditor.”