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

SECTION 1. That portion of section two of Act Numbered Four hundred mid ninety-six, the Land Registration Act, which reads as follows: "and shall provide all necessary books and such printed blanks and stationery for use in registration proceedings as may be ordered by the court hereby created," is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof the following words shall be inserted:

"All necessary books, printed blanks, stationery, and office equipment necessary for conducting the business of the court and the clerk shall be paid for from the Treasury of the Philippine Archipelago."

SEC. 2. All sums of money that have been paid or directed to be paid by the city of Manila for any of the items named in the preceding section, for the benefit of the Court of Land Registration, shall be repaid to the city of Manila from the Treasury of the Philippine Archipelago.

SEC. 3. 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, March 4, 1903.