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

SECTION 1. Section twenty-five hundred and seventeen of the Revised Administrative Code, as amended, is further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2517. Publication of notice of application for bar licenses or renewal thereof.—No application for a license, or for a renewal thereof, to conduct a first or a second class bar, shall be received until the applicant or applicants shall have, at his or their own expense, published a notice in six consecutive editions of one Spanish or Tagalog, and one English newspaper of general circulation, which notice shall be in such form as the mayor may determine, and shall set forth the fact that, on a certain date, it is proposed by such applicant or applicants to make application for a license to conduct a bar in the building situated on a specified street and at a specified number. Such notice shall be signed by the applicant or applicants and copies of the newspapers containing the notice shall be filed with the application."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 21, 1947.