Chapter 291. Providing for the quadrennial election of members of the Philippine legislature and Resident Commissioners to the United States, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 291.— An Act Providing for the quadrennial election of members of the Philippine legislature and Resident Commissioners to the United States, and for other purposes. June 14, 1910.[[H. R. 25641](/us/bill/61/hr/25641).][[Public, No. 211](/us/pl/61/211).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the present members of Philippine Islands. Assembly to serve four years. Vol. 32, p. 694, amended. *Post*, p. 910. the Philippine assembly shall hold office until the fourth day of March, anno Domini nineteen hundred and twelve, and their successors shall be chosen by the people in the year nineteen hundred and eleven, and in every fourth year thereafter, and shall hold office for four years beginning on the fourth day of March next following their election.
At its next regular session after the passage of this Act the Philippine legislature shall fix the date for the commencement of its annual sessions. Sec. 2. That hereafter the terms of Resident Commissioners to the Resident Commissioners. To serve four years. Vol. 32, p. 694, amended. *Post*, p. 910. United States shall be four years instead of two. The two to be chosen by the Philippine legislature at its next regular session, in pursuance of law, shall hold office for four years, and thereafter such elections shall be held quadrennially.
Each of said Resident Commissioners Allowances, etc. shall, in addition to the salary and expenses now allowed by law, be allowed the same sum for stationery and for the pay of necessary clerk hire as is now allowed to the Members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and the franking privilege Franking privilege. now enjoyed by Members of the House of Representatives. Sec. 3. That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are Conflicting laws repealed. hereby repealed, so far, and so far only, as they conflict with the provisions of this Act.
Approved, June 14, 1910.