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

SECTION 1. Act Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-six, entitled "An Act reducing the thirty-one municipalities of the Province of Tayabas to twenty-seven," is hereby amended as follows:

1. By striking out the words "thirty-one" and "'twenty-seven" in the title and in section one and substituting therefor the words "thirty" and "twenty-six" respectively.
   
   
2. By striking out the word "Candelaria" in the second line of paragraph numbered five of said section one.

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, December 18, 1903.