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

SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered One thousand and fifty-six is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2. A person residing in the United States who is appointed i court! judge of the Court of Land Registration or of the municipal court  of the city of Manila shall, if appointed in the United States, be paid the traveling expenses of himself and family from his place of residence to Manila, if he shall come by the route directed by the Chief Executive of the Islands. He shall be allowed one-half salary from the date of leaving home to come to Manila, and full salary from the date of his arrival in the Islands: Provided, That he proceeds directly to the Islands; otherwise, he shall be allowed half salary for such time only as is ordinarily required to perform the journey from his place of residence to Manila. If one has been employed as judge of the Court of Land Registration or municipal court of the city of Manila for three years, he shall, if he so requests, upon retirement from the service, be furnished with transportation for himself and family from Manila to his place of residence."

SEC. 2. The; provisions of the foregoing section shall apply to judges who have been or are now incumbent or who may hereafter be appointed.

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 take effect on its passage.

Enacted, October 5, 1907.