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

SECTION 1. The following provision is hereby added to the first paragraph of section four of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two:

"Whenever the election of an elective provincial officer shall have resulted in a failure to elect it shall be the duty of the Governor-General to issue as soon as possible a proclamation calling a special election to be held to fill said office.   In the event of the death of  Death of a  provincial  officer-elect prior to his taking office the Governor-General may, in his discretion, issue a proclamation calling a special election to be held to fill the vacancy, or appoint the person who shall till the vacancy until his successor shall have been duly elected and shall have qualified for the subsequent term."

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

Enacted, February 18, 1908.