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

SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An Act providing for the widening of the streets and the adjustment of ownership of land located within certain specified limits in the municipality of Cebu, Province of Cebu" is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SECTION 1. The Governor-General, with the consent of the Philippine Commission, is hereby authorized to appoint a committee of five persons to continue the work of the committee appointed by resolution of the Commission of March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and five, to provide plans for the widening of such streets as may be desirable and proper and to lay out new reels within the so-called 'burnt area' in the municipality of Cebu, Province of Cebu. to adjust all questions of ownership of all land within the said burnt area, and to make such equitable allotment and adjustment of the land within the said burnt area as may be necessary and practicable, caused by the widening of existing  reels and in the laying out of new streets. All future vacancies on the committee hereby established shall be filled by appointment by the Governor-General. The committee heretofore appointed under the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-three is hereby discharged from further duty and shall turn over all hooks, papers, records and accounts to the committee appointed in accordance with this Act. The Governor-General is hereby authorized to confirm and approve the acts of the Director of Public Works, Sergio Osmeña, provincial governor of Cebu, T. Warren Allen, district engineer, and the president of the municipality of Cebu, acting instead of the committee authorized by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and  ninety-three."

SEC. 2. Act. Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-three is hereby further amended by adding at the end of section six thereof the following:

"The said committee is hereby authorized to employ such clerical assistants as may be necessary at a salary of not to exceed one hundred and fifty pesos per month each. The services of the said clerical assistants shall he certified to by the chairman of the committee. The expenses of this committee, to the extent of one thousand eight hundred pesos, shall be borne by the Insular Government. The Civil Service Acts and rules shall not necessarily be applicable to such clerical assistants as are herein authorized: Provided, That appointees under this Act who are members of the Civil Service, or certified by the Bureau of Civil Service for appointment, shall lose no right or privilege by reason of such appointment."

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this hill, 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, March 18, 1907.