Republic Act No. 945

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

Section 1

Section one thousand six hundred and fifty-nine of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"Section 1659. Chief Officials of Office, of the Solicitor General.

"(a) Four Solicitors, six thousand six hundred pesos per annum each;

"(b) Four Solicitors, six thousand pesos per annum each;

"(c) Five Solicitors, five thousand four hundred pesos per annum each;

“(d) Five Solicitors, five thousand one hundred pesos per annum each;

“(e) Six Solicitors, four thousand eight hundred pesos per annum each;

"The qualifications for appointment to the position of Solicitor General, the First Assistant

Solicitor General and the four Assistant Solicitors General shall be the same as those prescribed for Judges of Courts of First Instance and those of Solicitors shall be the same as those prescribed for provincial fiscals."

Section 2

To carry out the purposes of this Act and in addition to such sum as may have been provided for under current appropriation, there is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated the amount of twenty-two thousand nine hundred pesos for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifty-four.

Section 3

This Act shall take effect on July first, nineteen hundred and fifty-three.

Approved, June 20, 1953.