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

SECTION 1. Section sixty-one of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred  and ninety-seven, entitled  "The Township  Government Act," is amended. hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 61l. Whereas many of the non-Christian inhabitants of the Philippine Islands have not progressed sufficiently in civilization to make tribes, make it practicable to bring them under any form of municipal government", and whereas many of the Christian settlements in the provinces organized under the Special Provincial Government Act are so small that their organization as municipalities or townships is undesirable and so remote that their organization as barrios of municipalities or townships is impracticable, the provincial governors of such provinces are authorized, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, in dealing with such non-Christian tribes and small Christian settlements, or members thereof, to appoint officers, for their settlements, to fix the designations and badges of office of such officers, and to prescribe their powers and duties: Provided, That the powers and duties thus prescribed shall not be in excess of the powers conferred upon township officers by this Act.''

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speed)' 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. July 5, 1907.