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

SECTION 1. Section two hundred and six of Act Numbered Three bundled and fifty-five, known as the Customs Administrative Act, is hereby amended by inserting, after the word "merchandise" in the third line of said section, the words "shall have been paid and such goods, wares, and merchandise," so that the section shall read as follows:

"SEC. 206. Whenever any goods, wares, and merchandise shall have entered and passed free of duty, and whenever duties upon any imported goods, wares, and merchandise shall have been paid and such goods, wares, and merchandise shall have been delivered to the owner, importer, agent, or consignee, such entry and passage free of duty and such settlement of duties will, after the expiration of one year from the time of entry, in the absence of fraud and in the absence of protest by the owner, importer, agent, or consignee, be final and conclusive upon all parties."

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this hill, 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, May 27, 1903.