compensation as secretary shall be fixed by the Board at not exceeding one thousand eight hundred pesos a year, but he may hold any other office  or employment in the government of the city, and receive additional compensation therefor. [183-5.] SECTION  2414 . Appropriations by Board — Contributions from Insular Government . — The Board shall make all appropriations for the expenses of the government of the city. Whenever the Board fails to pass an appropriation ordinance for any year before the end  of the previous year, the appropriation ordinance for such previous year shall be deemed reënacted, and shall go into effect on the first day of January of the new year as the appropriation ordinance for that year, and such appropriation ordinance shall b e deemed reënacted from year to year, and shall be renewed and go into effect on the first day of January of each year, as the appropriation ordinance for that year, until a new appropriation ordinance is duly enacted. In consideration of the privileges an d exemptions enjoyed by the Insular Government within the city, and the burden imposed upon the city by reason of the location therein of the capital of the Islands, there is hereby created a permanent continuing appropriation during the time said city remains the capital of the Islands, from any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, equal to thirty per centum of the expenses of the government of the city exclusive of those amounts which appear as expenses by reason of interdepartmental  charges and charges against the Insular Government for land transportation and other analogous services and supplies; but the total contribution from Insular funds to the government of the city under this appropriation shall not in any one year exceed the  amount of the proceeds of the real-estate tax collected by the said city during the next preceding year, nor shall such total contribution in any one year exceed the sum of one million pesos. The Insular Auditor shall ascertain from time to time the amount he rein appropriated, and transfer to the city of Manila, out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount so ascertained. [183-15; 1765-1.] SECTION  2415 . Method of Transacting Business by Board — Veto, Authentication and Publication of Ordinances . — The Board shall hold two ordinary sessions for the transaction of business during each week on days which it shall fix by resolution, and such ext raordinary sessions, not exceeding thirty during any one year, as may be called by the mayor. It shall sit with open doors unless otherwise ordered by an affirmative vote of seven members. It shall keep a record of its proceedings and determine its rules of  procedure not herein set forth. Six Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 714