officer or employee, not being a judge of a court, who has come to the Islands upon appointment from the United States, and who has rendered continuous, faithful, and satisfactory service fo r three years or more after arrival in the Philippine Islands, shall, upon his retirement from the service, be allowed half salary for thirty days in addition to full salary for the period which may be granted him as leave of absence. HEDaTA If appointed prior to January twelfth, nineteen hundred and four, such person shall also be furnished transportation from Manila to San Francisco or transportation of equal cost to the Government by any other route; but the transportation must be used with in six months after retirement from the service. [1698-29  (d) .] S ECTION  338 . Scale of Salaries Received by Government Employees . — As regards salaries, employees in the Philippine service shall be arranged in grades according to the following scale; and in this schedule compensation at a stated rate refers not only to  compensation paid at such rate for the whole or any part of the year but also to a salary fixed at so much per annum: ARTICLE  III Scale of Salaries Grade 1 . Persons receiving compensation at the rate of six thousand pesos or more per annum. Grade 2 . Persons receiving compensation at the rate of five thousand five hundred pesos or more, but less than six thousand pesos per annum. Grade 3 . Persons receiving compensation at the rate of five thousand pesos or more, but less than five thousand five hundred pesos per annum. Grade 4 . Persons receiving compensation at the rate of four thousand five hundred pesos or more, but less than five thousand pesos per annum. Grade 5 . Persons receiving compensation at the rate of four thousand pesos or more, but less than four thousand five hundred pesos per annum. Grade 6 . Persons receiving compensation at the rate of three thousand six hundred pesos or more, but less than four thousand pesos per annum. Grade 7 . Persons receiving compensation at the rate of three thousand Copyright 2012 CD Technologies Asia, Inc. and Accesslaw, Inc. Philippine Law Encyclopedia 2011 112