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

SECTION 1. The nine municipalities of the Province of Isabela, as established by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and twenty-two, amendatory of Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-one, shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act. be increased to ten, by separating the former municipality of Palanan from the municipality of Ilagan so that the said municipality of Ilagan shall consist of the territory of which it was constituted prior to the passage of: Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-one, and so that the municipality of Palanan shall consist of the territory of which it was constituted prior to its consolidation with the municipality of Ilagan by said Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-one.

SEC. 2. The municipal elections in each of the newly constituted municipalities shall be held in accordance with the rules contained in Act Numbered Seven hundred and thirty, as amended by Act Numbered Nine hundred and twenty-eight. When the new municipal officers shall have been elected and shall have qualified, the present organization of each of the municipalities mentioned in section one of this Act shall be thereby abolished, and all offices held by virtue of their present organization shall be vacant and abolished, so that all the present municipal officials shall cease to hold office as soon as the new officials shall have taken the oath of office. Until the officials elected for such newly constituted municipalities shall have qualified, the present organization of the existing municipalities shall continue.

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 1. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, March 19, 1906.