By authority of the United Stales, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:

SECTION 1. Section one hundred and fifty of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled "The Corporation Law," is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 150. No loan by any insurance corporation on the security of real estate shall be made unless the title to such real estate shall have been first registered in accordance with the Land Registration Act, or shall be a titulo real duly registered or have been previously registered under the provisions of the Mortgage Law; that is, under the system of registration established by the laws in force on the date of the passage of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six, entitled 'The Land Registration Ace' "

SEC. 2. Section one hundred and eighty-two of said Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifty-nine is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 182. Every loan made by the corporation must be properly evidenced by a note or other instrument in writing and must be secured by a first mortgage or deed of trust on unencumbered real estate and also by the pledge to the corporation of shares of stock of the corporation the matured value of which shall at least equal  the amount loaned: Provided, how ever, That loans may be made  on the security of free shares pledged to the corporation for the  payment of the loan in case, tit the time that the loan is made,  the withdrawal value of such free shares under the by-laws shall exceed the amount borrowed and interest thereon for six months:  And provided further, That no loan on the security of real estate  shall be made unless the title to such real estate shall have been  first registered in accordance with the Land Registration Act or  under the system of registration established by the laws in force on  the date of the passage of said Land Registration Act, and unless  such, real estate shall be situate within the city or municipality  in. which the principal place of business of the corporation is  established."

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this  bill, the same shall take effect on its passage, in accordance with:  section one of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and forty-five of  the Philippine Legislature.

Enacted, February 3, 1911.