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

SECTION 1. Subsection (j) of section forty of Act Numbered Eighty-two, entitled "A general Act for the organization of municipal governments in the Philippine Islands," as amended by Acts Numbered Three hundred and sixty-four and Six hundred and thirty-five, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"(j) To regulate and permit or prohibit cockfighting and the keeping or training of fighting cocks, and to close cockpits: Provided, That, cockfighting in such cockpits shall take place only on legal holiday and during a period not to exceed three days on the occasion of the celebration of the patron saint's day of the municipality: Provided, further, That in the ease of municipalities which were separate upon the date of enactment of the Municipal Code, but which have been subsequently fused, the municipality resulting from such fusion having no patron saint, cockfighting in the cockpits of each such originally distinct municipality may take place for a period not to exceed three days on the celebration of the patron saint's day of such  formerly distinct municipality: And provided further, That no game of chance be permitted on the premises."

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 prescribing 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, August 19, 1904.