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

SECTION 1. Section two of Act  Numbered Thirteen  hundred  and ninety-four, as amended by section four of Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 2. In addition to the pay provided by law for the commissioned  officers of the Philippines Constabulary, there shall  be allowed and paid to each of such officers who is not an officer of the United States Army detailed for service with the Constabulary, ten per centum of his current annual pay for each term of five years of faithful and efficient service: Provided, That the total amount of such increase shall not exceed forty per centum of the yearly pay of the grade as provided by law: And provided further, That in computing compensation for length of service or retirement pay to commissioned officers of the Philippines Constabulary who have risen from the ranks, they shall be credited with the time during which they served as enlisted men."

SEC. 2. This Act shall have retroactive effect.

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.