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

SECTION 1. Subsection (j) of section forty of Act Numbered Eighty-two, entitled "A general Act for the organization of municipal governments in the Philippine Islands," as amended by Act Numbered Three hundred and sixty-four, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"(j) To license, tax, or prohibit cockfighting and the keeping or training of fighting cocks and to license, tax, or close cockpits: Provided, That cockfighting in such cockpits shall take place only on legal holidays and during a period not to exceed three days on the occasion of the celebration of the patron saint's day of the municipality: And provided further, That no game of chance be permitted on the premises."

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, February 11, 1903.