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

SECTION 1. Act Numbered Eighty-two, entitled "The Municipal Code" as amended, is hereby further amended by inserting, after subsection (b) of section eight, a subsection (bb), as follows:

"(bb) Any person who has been convicted by a Court of First Instance since August thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, of any offense punishable by death or imprisonment for the period of six months or more, unless and until acquitted upon appeal to a higher court, or restored to all civil rights by amnesty or pardon."

SEC. 2. This amendment shall be so far retroactive as to apply to persons hereto fore convicted by a Court of First Instance of any offense punishable by death or imprisonment for a period of six months or more and who have not been acquitted by a higher court or restored to all civil rights by amnesty or pardon.

SEC. 3. 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, February 18, 1904.