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

SECTION 1. Section twenty-four of Act Numbered Five hundred and twenty, entitled "An Act permitting the issuing of special licenses to engage in the coastwise trade of the Philippine Islands until July first, nineteen hundred and four, to vessels not entitled to general coastwise-trade licenses Tinder the Customs Administrative Act, and authorizing the fixing of maximum rates for transportation of merchandise and passengers in the coastwise trade," is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 24. Any vessel possessing a certificate of protection issued under section one hundred and seventeen of the Philippine Customs Administrative Act shall be entitled to the privileges and shall be subject to all the penalties directly or indirectly imposed in sections nineteen, twenty, and twenty-one of this Act, and all vessels engaged in the Philippine coastwise trade on or after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and three, shall fly the Proviso; ensign, Philippine coasting emblem at I ho mainmast: Provided, however, That all vessels operating under the Government contracts authorized by Acts Numbered Thirteen hundred and ten and Seventeen hundred and fifteen shall by at the mainmast, instead of the Philippine coasting emblem, an ensign of a design to bo approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Police."

SEC. 2. 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. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, October 3, 1907.