The Municipal code and the Provincial government act, being Act no. 82, entitled "A general act for the organization of municipal governments in the Philippine islands", and Act no. 83, entitled "A general act for the organization of provincial governments in the Philippine islands" as amended by the acts of the Philippine commission down to and including May 31, 1905, revised and codified by the Committee on revision and codification appointed by the governor-general. Published by authority of the Philippine commission.

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of the fact to the Auditor and to the disbursing officer
through whom the payment of salary or wages to such person
is by law required to be made. If the Auditor shall find Auditor's authat a disbursing officer has paid or permitted to be paid thority.
salary or wages to any person illegally holding a classified
position, the whole amount paid shall be disallowed and the
disbursing officer shall not receive credit for the same. If
the Auditor shall find that the head or acting head of a
Bureau or Office is responsible, as above provided, for the
payment of salary or wages to such person and that such
payment is not due to the failure of the disbursing officer
to obtain proper evidence as herein required, the disbursing
officer shall be directed to withhold from the salary of such
head or acting head of the Bureau or Office an amount equal
to that disallowed by the Auditor. A disbursing officer, the Decisions by
head of any Department, Bureau, or Office, or the Auditor Civil Service
may apply for and the Civil Service Board shall render a
decision upon any question as to whether a position is in
the classified or the unclassified civil service, or whether the
appointment of any person to a classified position has been
made in accordance with the Civil Service Act and Rules,
which decision, when rendered, shall be sufficient authority
for the Auditor in passing upon the aceount. —Act 1072,
March 3, 1904.
Note 14.-SEc. 2. Any official in charge of a public work Oaths, adminisunder the authority of the Insular Government or any pro-tratlon of.
vincial government is hereby empowered to administer all
oaths required by law, without compensation, but he shall not
be required to administer oaths except in matters of official
business for which no fees are chargeable by law.-Act 1165,
May 26, 1904.
Note 15.-SECTION 1. Teachers in the Bureau of Education Teachers and
and other persons appointed to office under the Insular or othersfromUnited
a provincial government, who reach Manila from the United
States, shall have their traveling expenses paid out of the -expenses to
Insular Treasury from Manila to the point in the Islands point of duty.
where their duties are to be performed. In cases where such
teachers and other persons appointed have been duly authorized to bring their families at public expense from the United Families.
States to Manila, the expenses allowed under this Act shall
include the traveling expenses not only of such teachers and
other persons but of their respective families.
SEC. 2. In case of persons stationed or residing in the Phil- Local appointippine Islands who are appointed to office under the Insular ments.
or a provincial government, the duties of which are to be
discharged in some other part of the Islands, the reasonable
traveling expenses of such persons from their former station
or residence in the Islands to the place in which their future
duties are to be performed, shall be paid out of the Insular
Treasury.-Act 239, September 25, 1901.
Note 16.-SECTION 1. * * * Insular salary and expense Salary after arfund: rival at Manila.
Provided, That no salary shall be paid to any officer or
employee for a period subsequent to his arrival in Manila
from this appropriation when the Bureau to which he may
be assigned has a vacancy from the appropriation for which
he may be properly paid, or the provincial office to which he
may be assigned, was vacant.-Acts 795, 807, 1049, 1225.