Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. Section one hundred and twenty-seven of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-three hundred and sixty-two is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"Provided, That when the instrument acknowledged before a notary consists of two or more pages, including the page on which the acknowledgment is written, each page of the copy which is to be recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds or if such copy is not to be recorded, each page of the copy to be kept by the Notary Public, shall be signed on the left margin by the person or persons executing the instrument and their witnesses and sealed with the notarial seal, and this fact as well as the number of pages contained shall be stated in the acknowledgment: Provided, further, That when the instrument acknowledged relates to the sale, assignment, cession, conveyance, or mortgage of two or more parcels of land, the number thereof shall be set forth in said acknowledgment."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, November 28, 1928.