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

SECTION 1. Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-five, entitled "An Act regulating the salaries of officers and employees in the municipal service of Manila," is hereby amended by adding an additional section, which shall read as follows:

"OFFICE OF THE CITY SUPERINTENDENT, UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

"There may be employed in the office of the City Superintendent, under the Department of Public Instruction, the following employees:

"One chief clerk, class seven; one assistant clerk, class nine; one property clerk, class nine; one clerk, class G; one janitor and messenger, class K; at an annual compensation of one hundred and twenty dollars."

SEC. 2. Section two of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"Members of the Board shall receive an annual compensation of four thousand five hundred dollars each; the secretary of the Board shall receive an annual compensation of three thousand dollars; the disbursing officer of the Board shall receive an annual compensation of two thousand five hundred dollars. The Board is also hereby authorized, if it shall certify that such employment is indispensably necessary for the proper prosecution of its business, to employ three clerks of class seven. There may be employed in the office of the secretary one clerk of class six, one interpreter of class six, three clerks of class nine, two clerks of Class A, one translator and typewriter of class nine, three messengers at an annual salary of one hundred and twenty dollars each. In the office of the disbursing officer, one assistant of class seven; one clerk of class eight; one clerk of class nine; one clerk of class ten; one messenger at an annual compensation of one hundred and twenty dollars."

SEC. 3. The fourth paragraph of section five of said Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-five is hereby amended by striking out the words "three assistant engineers of Class F" and substituting therefor one assistant engineer of Class C, one assistant engineer of Class D, one assistant engineer of Class F. The change in salaries of officers at the pumping station affected by this section shall take effect and apply to the month of September, nineteen hundred and one, as well as to the future.

SEC. 4. Section twelve of said Act is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"There may also be employed in the office of the clerk of each of the municipal courts two deputy clerks, to be appointed by the clerks, respectively, one at a salary of one thousand dollars per annum and one at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, and one interpreter for each court, to be appointed by the judge thereof, at a maximum salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Special interpreters versed in Chinese, Japanese, or other languages may be temporarily employed by the judge of either court when necessary for the due administration of justice, at a reasonable compensation, to be fixed by the judge making the appointment."

SEC. 5. 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. 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, September 30, 1901.