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

SECTION 1. The provincial boards of all provinces organized under the Provincial Government Act are hereby authorized to fix the number and dates of the conventions to be held in each year by the presidents of the municipalities in the provincial capital pursuant to the various special Acts organizing such provinces: Provided, That in no case shall the number of such conventions in any province be less than one nor more than four in each year: And provided further, That before fixing the number and dates of such conventions the provincial boards shall receive and consider the recommendations of the municipal presidents of their respective provinces to be made at their first convention after the passage of this Act, The number and dates of such conventions may be changed changed from time to time in the manner in this section provided for fixing such number and dates.

SEC. 2. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

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, July 2, 1902.