By authority of the untied slates, be it enacted by the Philippine commission, that:

SECTION 1. Act Numbered Two hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "Act Act prescribing a method of executing leases of real estate to or by the Insular Government," is hereby amended in the following particulars:

(a) By changing the title so that it shall read as follows: "An Act prescribing a method of executing deeds and leases of real estate to or by the Insular Government."

(b) By amending section one thereof so that it shall read as follows:

"SECTION 1. All deeds and leases of houses and other real estate or other contracts for the use and occupancy of property made to or by the Insular Government or any Department or Bureau thereof shall be executed for and in behalf of the Insular Government by the Governor-General."

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, June 26, 1906.