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

SECTION 1. The municipality of Aritao, in the Province of Nueva Vizcaya, is hereby incorporated as a barrio of the municipality of Dupax, in the same province, and the limits of the municipality of Dupax are hereby extended so as to include all the territory heretofore constituting the municipality of Aritao.

SEC. 2. The existing organization of the municipality of Aritao is hereby abolished and all offices existing by virtue of the present organization of such municipality are hereby abolished and declared to be vacant.

SEC. 3. 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on October first, nineteen hundred and three.

Enacted, August 24, 1903.