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

SECTION 1. The last paragraph of section five of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two is hereby amended to read as follows.:

"No Delegate to the Philippine Assembly shall, during  the time for which  he  was elected,  be appointed to any civil office  to civil of under the authority of the Government of the Philippine Islands,  which shall have been created by said Government or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased by the said Government during such time, except when said office shall be temporary or shall be held outside of the Philippine Islands.

"Except as provided in the foregoing paragraph, no person holding any office under the Government of the Philippine Islands shall be a member of the Assembly dining his continuance in notice: True purpose of provided, however, That the true purpose of this paragraph is no to deprive any Delegate, whatever bis position in the Assembly may be, from holding a temporary or permanent office, which was held by him at the time of the enactment of the Election Law or of which he may take possession later, providing that the said office shall be without compensation."

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

Enacted, May 21, 1908.