Be  it enacted by the Senate and House  of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1.  Section four of Act Numbered Twenty-four hundred and eighty-six is  hereby amended  to read  as follows:

"SEC.  4. The Governor-General, with the advice and consent of the Philippine Senate, shall appoint a commissioner for  service in  the Territory of Hawaii, whose duty it shall be to receive  and  hear the complaints  made  by Filipino laborers, to arrange the differences between the latter and their  employers,  to see  to the compliance of the contracts made with said laborers, and to  look after their interests in general, making every six months a report  of the condition thereof  to the Governor-General.  Said commissioner shall  receive  an annual compensation  of eight thousand pesos."

SEC. 2. The money necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March 6,  1924.