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

SECTION 1. Section fifteen of Act Numbered Seven hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act providing for the organization and government of the Moro Province," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:

"Provided, however, That the legislative council shall have the power to unite the offices of district secretary and district treasurer, and to provide for the filling of such offices, whether united or separate, by detail of Army officers without civil-service examination, in the interest of economy in the public service. Army officers thus detailed shall receive the same allowance and expenses from the provincial treasury as are allowed to detailed Army officers under section eleven of Act Numbered Seven hundred and eighty-seven."

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, September 17, 1903.