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

SECTION 1. Act Numbered Two hundred and fifteen is hereby amended so that section two shall read as follows:

"SEC. 2. Every officer or agent accountable for civil property Quarterly returns. shall make returns of the same to the Auditor for the Archipelago, in such manner as may be prescribed, quarterly as of the thirty-first day nf March, the thirtieth day of June, the thirtieth day of September, niul the thirty-first day of December of each year: Provided, however. That officers accountable for Constabulary sales stores shall make returns of the same monthly and within ten days after the close of the period for which rendered."

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, January 8, 1902.