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

SECTION 1. Hereafter a vacancy occurring in the position of secretary of the Advisory Board of the city of Manila shall be filled by appointment of the president of the Advisory Board, by and with the consent of the Advisory Board, and in accordance with civil-service rules and regulations. A member of the Advisory Board shall not be eligible to appointment as secretary of the Board.

SEC. 2. The action of the Advisory Board in appointing a secretary not a member of the Board is confirmed.

SEC. 3. All parts of section sixty-five of Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-three or of other Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, May 3, 1904.