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

SECTION 1. Section ninety-three of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-six, as amended by Act Numbered Two thousand and thirty-five, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 93. Disposition of notarial register.—Immediately upon his notarial register being filled, and also within fifteen days after the expiration of his commission, unless reappointed, the notary public shall forward his notarial register to the clerk of the Court of First Instance of the province wherein he exercises his office, who shall examine the same and report thereon to the judge of the Court of First Instance. If the judge finds that no irregularity has been committed in the keeping of the register, he shall forward the same to the chief of the division of archives, patents, copyrights, and trade-marks of the Executive Bureau. In case the judge finds that irregularities have been committed in the keeping of the register, he shall refer the matter to the fiscal of the province—and in the city of Manila, to the prosecuting attorney—for action, and the sending of the register to the chief of the division of archives, patents, copyrights, and trade-marks of the Executive Bureau shall be deferred until the termination of the case against the notary public."

SEC. 2. This Act shall cake effect on its passage.

Enacted, February 11, 1913