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

SECTION 1. Paragraph (b) of section three of Act Numbered Seventy-four is hereby amended by inserting in the fourth line, after "Archipelago," the words "deputy division superintendents," making the paragraph to read as follows:

"(b) He shall appoint, in accordance with Act Numbered Twenty-five, enacted October seventeenth, nineteen hundred, a City Superintendent of Schools for Manila, and division superintendents of schools for other parts of the Archipelago, deputy division superintendents, and the teachers and clerks authorized by law, and shall prescribe the duties of such teachers and clerks."

SEC. 2. Section seven, of Act Numbered Seventy-four is hereby amended by striking out the word "and" in the second line and inserting in the same line, after "division superintendents," the words "and the deputy division superintendents," making the section to read as follows:

"SEC. 7. The actual expenses of the General Superintendent, the division superintendents, and the deputy division superintendents while traveling or absent from their usual places of residence on official business shall be paid out of the Insular Treasury."

SEC. 3. Section nine of Act Numbered Seventy-four is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section the following paragraph:

"The deputy division superintendent shall be a teacher actually engaged in instruction. He shall act for the division superintendent in the absence of this officer, and he shall exercise all the functions of the division superintendent, subject to the confirmation of the division superintendent: Provided, however, That he shall not have power to appoint school-teachers or to fix their salaries. The number of deputy division superintendents and the territory within which they shall act shall be determined by the Secretary of Public Instruction, but the number shall not exceed in any division the number of provinces in that division."

SEC. 4. 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, September 20, 1901.