By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:

SECTION 1. Section thirteen of Act Numbered Seventeen hundred and three is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 13 Provincial boards may, with the approval of the Governor-General, direct the confinement of municipal prisoners in provincial jails when by reason of the lack, inadequacy, or insecurity of municipal jails such action becomes necessary, or when in their judgment such confinement would best subserve the public interest the cost of maintenance of such prisoners while confined in the provincial jails shall be a charge against the municipality to which the prisoners pertain at a per capita rate per day, not exceeding twenty centavos to lie fixed by the provincial board.

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, May 20, 1909.