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

SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Seven hundred and seventy-four, amending paragraph (j) of section forty-three of Act Numbered Eighty-two, entitled "A general Act for the organization of municipal governments in the Philippine Islands," is hereby amended by adding thereto the following paragraph:

"Notwithstanding the fact that, by its terms, this Act shall not go into general effect throughout the provinces until the first day of December, nineteen hundred and three, provincial boards are hereby authorized to apply the provisions hereof immediately to any particular road or roads in the province, whenever in their judgment such protection is required and the public interests will not otherwise be prejudiced."

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, August 26, 1903.