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

SECTION 1. Act Numbered Nine hundred and twenty-six is hereby amended by inserting after section three thereof a new section, numbered three-a, to read as follows:

"SEC.  3-a. All  the proofs, affidavits, and oaths of any kind required to be furnished, made, or taken by applicants entered subject to the homestead provisions of the Public Land Act, may be furnished, made, or taken before the justice of the peace of the municipality in which the land is situate, or before the judge, clerk, or deputy clerk of the Court of First Instance of the province in which the land is situate, or before any judge, clerk, or deputy clerk of the Court of Land Registration sitting in the province in which the land is situate, or before any notary public of the province in which the land is situate. The fees for the taking of such final evidence before any of the officials hereinbefore mentioned shall be as follows;

"For each affidavit, fifty centavos.
"For each deposition of the applicant or the witnesses, fifty centavos."

SEC. 2. As soon as this Act shall have been approved by the ^ President of the United States and shall have received the express or implied sanction of Congress, as provided for in section thirteen of the Act of Congress approved on July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled "An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes," these facts shall be published by proclamation of the Governor-General of the Islands, and this Act shall take effect on the date of such proclamation.

Enacted. February 3, 1911.