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

SECTION 1. The offices of provincial treasurer and provincial supervisor provided for in Act Numbered Ninety-two, extending the provisions of the Provincial Government Act to the Province of Bataan, are hereby consolidated, and the office thus formed shah1 be known as the office of the provincial supervisor-treasurer.

SEC. 2. The provincial governor, the provincial supervisor-treasurer, and the division superintendent of schools for the province, who shall receive no additional compensation for such services, shall constitute the provincial board.

SEC. 3. The bond of the provincial supervisor-treasurer shall be seven thousand five hundred dollars. He shall receive an annual salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars, payable monthly. His qualifications and duties shall be the same as the qualifications and duties of provincial supervisor and provincial treasurer as out-lined in the Provincial Government Act, except that the requirement that the provincial supervisor shall be a competent civil engineer and surveyor shall not apply. The supervisor-treasurer may employ a foreman in charge of the repair and construction of roads at a salary not to exceed sixty dollars a month.

SEC. 4. So much of Act Numbered Ninety-two or any amendment thereof as may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. 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. 6. This Act shall take effect on August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three.

Enacted, August 4, 1903.