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

SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and fifty-five, increasing the number of municipalities in the Province of Tarlac, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"SECTION 1. The nine municipalities of the Province of Tarlac, La Paz. as established by Act Numbered Nine hundred and thirty, shall, in accordance with  the provisions of this Act, be increased to ten, by separating the former municipality of La Paz and the barrio of Lauangcupang from the present municipality of Tarlac, and constituting with their territories and those of the barrios of Kaut and Bantug, in the present municipality of Conception, a new municipality which shall be known as La Paz, with the seat of municipal government at La Paz."

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 proscribing 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, January 10, 1907.