Issuing authority and enactment basis
- Act No. 222 was enacted by the United States Philippine Commission.
- Act No. 222 states it is enacted by authority of the President of the United States.
- Section 1 recites that the President of the United States, through the Secretary of War, directed the establishment of the four departments and appointed persons as their Secretaries or heads.
Organizational structure of executive departments
- Section 1 establishes the Department of the Interior as covering, under its executive control, the Bureau of Health, the Quarantine Service of the Marine Hospital Corps, the Bureau of Forestry, the Bureau of Mining, a Bureau of Agriculture, the Bureau of Fisheries, the Weather Bureau, the Bureau of Pagan and Mohammedan Tribes, the Bureau of Public Lands, the Bureau of Government Laboratories, and the Bureau of Patents and Copyrights.
- Section 2 establishes the Department of Commerce and Police as covering, under its executive control, the Bureau of Island and Inter-Island Transportation, the Bureau of Post-Offices, the Bureau of Telegraphs, the Bureau of Coast and Geodetic Survey, a Bureau of Engineering and Construction of Public Works other than Public Buildings, the Bureau of insular Constabulary, the Bureau of Prisons, the Bureau of Light-Houses, the Bureau of Commercial and Street Railroad Corporations and all Corporations except Banking.
- Section 3 establishes the Department of Finance and Justice as covering, under its executive control, the Bureau of the Insular Treasury, the Bureau of the Insular Auditor, the Bureau of Customs and Immigration, the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the Insular Cold Storage and Ice Plant, a Bureau of Banks, Banking, Coinage, and Currency, and the Bureau of Justice.
- Section 4 establishes the Department of Public Instruction as covering, under its executive control, the Bureau of Public Instruction, a Bureau of Public Charities, Public Libraries and Museums, the Bureau of Statistics, a Bureau of Public Records, a Bureau of Public Printing, and the Bureau of Architecture and Construction of Public Buildings.
Department control and supervision rules
- Section 5 requires the Secretaries of the departments in Sections 1 to 4 to exercise the executive control conferred upon them under the general supervision of the Civil Governor.
- Section 5 provides that the executive control vested by law in the Central Government over provincial and municipal governments and the civil service shall be exercised directly by the Civil Governor through the Executive Secretary.
- Section 5 ties the allocation of supervision and central control: departmental executive control is under the Civil Governor’s general supervision, while central control over local governments and civil service is exercised directly by the Civil Governor through the Executive Secretary.
Department officers, correspondence, and clerical work
- Section 6 provides that the officers and subordinates of each department consist of the secretary and such assistant clerks and other employees as may be provided by law.
- Section 6 authorizes that the official correspondence of the head of each department may be recorded by direction of the head of the Department in the office of the Executive Secretary.
- Section 6 directs that clerical work needed in each department and conveniently done in the office of the Executive Secretary shall be done by direction of the head of the department.
Preservation of Auditor independence
- Section 7 provides that executive control by the Department of Finance and Justice over the office of Insular Auditor and the office of Insular Treasurer does not affect the powers conferred by Act Numbered Ninety.
- Section 7 requires that the Auditor maintain independence of judgment when auditing and adjudicating the validity of accounts presented to him in accordance with law.
Special legislative procedure and urgency
- Section 8 states that because the public good requires speedy enactment, passage of Act No. 222 is expedited under section two of “An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws,” passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Transitory and savings effect
- Section 7 preserves the legal effect of Act Numbered Ninety as to the Insular Auditor’s powers and the Auditor’s independence of judgment, notwithstanding departmental executive control arrangements in this Act.