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

SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-two, entitled "An Act amending Act Numbered One hundred and seventy-five, and establishing a supply store for the benefit of civil servants of the insular and provincial governments stationed outside the city of Manila," is hereby repealed, and the following substituted therefor:

"SECTION 1. The Chief of Philippines Constabulary is hereby authorized and directed to establish a civil supply store in the city of Manila and the necessary branches thereof in the provinces of the Philippine Islands for the purpose of furnishing food supplies and other necessaries of life to the officers and members of the Philippines Constabulary at reasonable prices. All other officers and employees of the various departments of the insular and provincial governments and all teachers in the public schools stationed outside of the city of Manila, may purchase supplies at any branch of said supply store."

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, June 1, 1903.