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

SECTION 1. Section three of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An Act declaring all of the territory comprised in the Island of Marinduque a subprovince of Tayabas, and for other purposes." is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Provided, That there shall accrue to the treasury of the subprovince of Marinduque as constituted by this Act, for the sole  use and benefit of the inhabitants thereof, seventy per centum of such proportion of internal revenue which by law accrues to the Province of Tayabas as the number of inhabitants of said subprovince, as shown by the last official census, bears to the total population of the province of which it forms a part, as shown by the same census."

SEC. 2. This Act shall be retroactive in effect and the proportion of internal-revenue collections allowed in section one hereof shall accrue to the subprovince of Marinduque from the date of its establishment as a subprovince.

SEC. 3. The public, good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of I ho same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of ''An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in Hie enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth nineteen hundred.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted,  July 24, 1907.