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

SECTION 1. The time within which payment may be made of taxes on real estate in the city of Manila without suffering the penalty for nonpayment provided in section forty-seven of Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-three and the amendments thereto, is hereby extended to July first, nineteen hundred and two, in the case of such taxes for the year nineteen hundred and one, and to September first, nineteen hundred and two, in the case of such taxes for the year nineteen hundred and two.

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, May 28, 1902.