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

SECTION 1. It shall be a condition of the contract of employment of any person in the Insular, provincial, or municipal branch of the Philippine Government, for whose transportation from the United States to these Islands any expense has been incurred on the part of the Insular, provincial, or municipal branch of the Philippine Government by way of salary for the time consumed in coming from the United States to the Philippine islands, or for actual traveling expenses, that such person shall serve at least two years in the position to which appointed, unless transferred from such position in the interest of good administration, or unless dismissed or separated from the service by competent authority.

SEC. 2. A breach of the condition provided in the foregoing section shall entitle the proper officer to withhold payment of all salary due to the person employed and violating the condition and shall debar such person from over entering again the public service of the Philippine Government in any of its branches. No return transportation shall be furnished to such employee. In such case an action shall be on the petition of the Attorney-General for the recovery of the amount expended by the Government for the expenses reimbursed and the salary paid for the period before the arrival of the employee in the Islands.

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 its passage.

Enacted, September 6, 1901.