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

SECTION 1. The Exposition Board for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition is hereby authorized to employ for overtime service such number of employees of the Insular Government and of the city of Manila as may be necessary to complete its work in the city of Manila by December first, nineteen hundred and three; and is hereby further authorized to pay for such overtime service such sums per hour as may be deemed reasonable and proper by the said Board, said payments to be made from its available appropriations, the provisions of Act Numbered One hundred and forty-eight to the contrary notwithstanding.

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, November 2, 1903.