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

SECTION 1. Section fifteen of Act Numbered Seventy and. eighty-seven is hereby amended to read as follows:

Sec. 15. In each district of the Moro Province there shall be appointed by the provincial governor, with the consent of the legislative council, a district governor and a district secretary. The office of district governor may he filled by proper detail of an army officer, with the consent of the legislative council. There shall also be a district treasurer who shall be appointed and his salary fixed by the provincial treasurer, with the approval of the legislative council, in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Service Law. Whenever the legislative council shall decide that the duties of any district treasurer can be more economically or more efficiently performed by the provincial treasurer or a deputy provincial treasurer it may abolish the office of district treasurer in that district and require the duties thereof to be performed by the provincial treasurer, and may reestablish said office when it shall deem such action expedient. The governors and the secretaries of the districts may be appointed without previous examination, but they shall be able after eighteen months of service to pass a satisfactory examination in the principal local dialect of their respective districts, and a failure to pass such examination shall be sufficient cause for removal from office."

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, April 25, 1907.