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

SECTION 1. Paragraph (f) of section eleven of Act Numbered Eighty-two, entitled "A general Act for the organization of municipal governments in the Philippine Islands," is hereby repealed and the following substituted in place thereof:

"(f) Any elector who can not read and write shall be assisted in the preparation of his ballot by two persons whom he shall designate, who shall accompany him to a table. One of the said persons, in the presence of the other, shall thereupon fill out a ballot in accordance with the dictation of the elector, who shall then deposit it in the usual manner."

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, March 21, 1903.