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

SECTION 1. Section four of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and forty-five is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 4. The position of provincial secretary is hereby abolished and the employees of his office are hereby transferred to the office Designations by of the provincial governor.   The provincial governor shall, by an executive order, designate  an employee or employees of his office to  perform  the duties  heretofore  performed  by the provincial  secretary,  including  those  of recorder of  the provincial board.  In case the provincial governor shall certify that no employee in his office is competent to perform said duties, and the Bureau of Civil Service shall certify that its eligible list contains the name of no person who will accept the appointment for the salary allowed, the provincial governor may, with the approval of the Governor-General, appoint some person who is not in the classified civil service, or he may perform such duties personally should he so elect: Provided, That a provincial secretary holding office on October twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, shall be eligible to appointment to any position in the classified civil service at a salary not exceeding the salary now received by him.

"All fees which heretofore have been authorized by law for provincial secretaries as personal compensation for furnishing certified copies of public records and documents shall hereafter accrue to the provincial treasury, and shall be deposited therein by the recorder or person acting as such officer on the first business day of each month, accompanied by an itemized statement in duplicate showing the source from which the said funds were received, date of receipt, and the name of the payor."

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage ol' 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. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, October 11, 1907.