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. The  first paragraph  of  section twenty-two hundred  and  fifty-nine of  Act  Numbered  Twenty-seven hundred  and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, is hereby amended to read as  follows:

"SEC.  2259. Appointment of members of police force.— The  chief of police and other members of  the force  shall be appointed  by the president, with the consent  of the municipal council.  In case of disagreement between the president and the municipal council  regarding the appointment of  the  chief of police, if such disagreement extends over more than three months after the submission of the nomination by the president, the provincial board shall take action and decide such disagreement, and its decision shall be final."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March  6, 1924.