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

SECTION 1. The provisions of section eighteen of Act Numbered Eighty-three, as amended by Acts Numbered One hundred and thirty-three and Five hundred and twenty-seven, and of section two of Act Numbered Three hundred and eleven, as hereafter amended in this Act, are hereby made applicable to all provinces now or hereafter organized under the general provisions of the Nueva Vizcayan Acts Numbered Three hundred and thirty-seven and Three hundred and eighty-seven and amendments thereto; and if the provincial treasurer of any province organized under the Nueva Vizcayan Acts Numbered Three hundred and thirty-seven and Three hundred and eighty-seven, and the amendments thereto, has taken official action upon an erroneous construction of law by which such sections herein made applicable to such province were deemed to be so applicable before the passage of this Act, such action is now ratified and confirmed, and the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago is directed to audit the accounts of such provincial treasurer upon the basis of such ratification.

SEC. 2. Section two of Act Numbered Three hundred and eleven is hereby amended by striking out the last sentence of said section and substituting therefor the following: "Such return shall made upon certification of the amount due by the Auditor, by a settlement warrant, and shall be disposed of as provided by section eighteen of the Provincial Government Act as amended."

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with portion 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, April 8, 1903.