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

SECTION 1. Act Numbered Seventeen, entitled "An Act for the reorganization of the Mining Bureau," is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SECTION 1. The following employees are hereby authorized for the Mining Bureau:

"(a) A chief of the Mining Bureau, who shall receive compensation at the rate of three thousand dollars per year;

"(b) A mining engineer and assayer, who shall receive compensation at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per year;

"(c) A stenographer and typewriter, who shall receive compensation at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per year;

"(d) A translator, who shall receive compensation at the rate of one thousand dollars per year;

"(e) A draftsman, who shall receive compensation at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per year;

"(f) A draftsman, who shall receive compensation at the rate of three hundred dollars per year;

"(g) One clerk, Class C;

"(h) One clerk, Class D;

"(i) One clerk, Class I;

"(j) One janitor, at a compensation of one hundred and twenty dollars per year;

"(k) One laborer, at a compensation of eighty dollars per year."

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, September 20, 1901.