Title
Extension of Provincial Government Act to Rizal
Law
Act No. 137
Decision Date
Jun 11, 1901
The Philippine Law extends the Provincial Government Act to the Province of Rizal, establishing the province and outlining the salaries, expenses, and responsibilities of provincial officers, as well as addressing improvements, flooding, and the capital city.

Province of Rizal established

  • Section 2 establishes the province organized under this Act as the Province of Rizal.
  • Section 6 sets the provincial capital at the town of Pasig.

Officers’ compensation and travel allowance

  • Section 3 sets annual compensation for provincial officers of the Province of Rizal in money of the United States at the following rates:
    • Provincial governor: one thousand eight hundred dollars
    • Provincial secretary: one thousand two hundred dollars
    • Provincial treasurer: two thousand two hundred dollars
    • Provincial supervisor: one thousand eight hundred dollars
    • Provincial fiscal: one thousand two hundred dollars
  • Section 3 requires salary to be payable monthly, such that one-twelfth of the annual salary is paid on the last day of each calendar month.
  • Section 3 allows each provincial officer necessary and actual traveling expenses not exceeding two and one-half dollars per day while absent from the capital on official business.
  • Section 3 requires the provincial board to allow the travel allowance based on the officer’s certificate that travel was necessary for public business, and provides that payment is made only after the account, together with the board’s approving resolution, is forwarded to the Insular Treasurer for approval.

Treasurer bond requirements and military fill-ins

  • Section 4 requires the bond of the provincial treasurer to be ten thousand dollars until the first day of March, nineteen hundred and two.
  • Section 4 authorizes the Commission, in view of the collection of the land tax, to require a new bond or an additional bond after March 1, 1902, to cover the probable increase of funds the provincial treasurer will have custody at any one time.
  • Section 4 conditions the bond on the provincial treasurer accounting for:
    • internal-revenue collections coming into the treasurer’s hands as internal-revenue collector; and
    • taxes collected by the treasurer for each municipality, for the province, and for the Central Government.
  • Section 4 provides that the Insular Treasurer prescribes the bond’s form.
  • Section 4 exempts a military officer detailed by the Commission to fill a provincial office from the bond requirement and from salary payment until after July first, nineteen hundred and one.

Municipal presidents convene quarterly

  • Section 5 requires the presidents or alcaldes of the municipalities of the province to meet on the third Monday of January, April, July, and October to consider improvements needed in the province and for provincial governments, and to make recommendations to the provincial board.
  • Section 5 requires the convention to be called by the provincial secretary.
  • Section 5 requires each quarterly session to elect a chairman.
  • Section 5 requires the provincial secretary to act as secretary of the convention and to certify its recommendations to the provincial board.

Morong improvements spending proportionality

  • Section 7 imposes on the provincial board a duty to ensure that, as nearly as possible, amounts spent for improvements from provincial funds in the portion of the province that was the District of Morong bear the same proportion to:
    • the amount spent in the whole province for improvements, as
    • taxes collected from Morong bear to taxes collected in the whole province.

Flooding inquiry and legislative recommendation

  • Section 8 requires the provincial supervisor to examine the causes of flooding affecting towns of the province situated on Laguna de Bay and the rivers flowing into it.
  • Section 8 requires the examination to be for the purpose of determining a method of preventing recurrence of flooding and the consequent injuries.
  • Section 8 requires the provincial supervisor to submit a report and recommendations to the provincial board.
  • Section 8 requires the provincial board to transmit the report and recommendations, with such comment as it deems proper, through the Chief Executive to the Commission for enabling legislation, if necessary.

Effectivity

  • Section 9 provides that this Act takes effect on its passage.
  • The Act was Enacted, June 11, 1901.

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