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

SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Two thousand and seventy-five is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"Section 1. Whenever in the opinion of the Governor-General the public interests require that the title or titles to any land or lands in the Moro Province, the Mountain Province, the Province of Agusan, or the Province of Nueva Vizcaya be settled and adjudicated, upon the order of the Governor-General, the Director of Lands shall make a survey and plan of such land or lands.    The Director of Lands shall give notice to persons claiming an interest in the land or lands, and to the general public, of the day on which such survey will begin, giving as full and accurate a description as possible of the land or lands to be surveyed. Such notice shall be published in two successive issues of the Official Gazette, in both the English and Spanish languages, and a copy of the notice in the English and Spanish languages shall he posted in a conspicuous place on the land to be surveyed, and also in a conspicuous place on the chief municipal building of the municipality, township or settlement in which the land, or any portion thereof, is situated.   A copy of the notice shall also be sent to the president of such municipality, township, or settlement, and to the legislative council of the Moro Province, or the provincial board of Agusan, Nueva Vizcaya, or the Mountain Province, as the case may be."

SEC. 2. Section twenty-six of said Act Numbered Two thousand and seventy-five is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 26. In the interpretation of the provisions of this Act the interpretation of rules of construction laid down by sections one, two, three, and four of the Code of Civil Procedure and section one hundred and twenty-three of the Land Registration Act shall apply. The word 'court' as used in this Act shall mean the Court of Land Registration. The provisions of sections one  and two  of this Act,  concerning the notice to be given to persons claiming an interest in the land, and the publication thereof, shall not be applicable to surveys begun and completed by the Bureau of Lands before the taking effect of this Act."

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, November 21, 1911.