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

SECTION 1. Until further legislation in that behalf, the salary of the secretary of the Province of Nuevn. Ecija shall be at the rate of one thousand one hundred pesos per year, and that of the fiscal at the rate of one thousand pesos per year.

SEC. 2. The office of register of deeds for the Province of Nueva Ecija is hereby temporarily abolished, and the duties of the register of deeds of that province are hereby transferred to the treasurer of said province, who shall receive, receipt for, and retain the custody of all the books, papers, and documents and other property appertaining to the office of register of deeds, but the provisions of this section shall continue in force only until such time as a register of deeds shall hereafter be appointed by the Governor-General in accordance with law.

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. 4. This Act shall lake effect on February first, nineteen hundred and six.

Enacted, January 16, 1906.