Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. Section thirty-nine of Act Numbered Sixteen hundred and twenty-seven is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 39. Section fifty-one of General Orders, Numbered Fifty-eight, series of nineteen hundred, is hereby amended so ,as to read as follows:

" 'SEC. 51. Complaint.—Except as otherwise provided by law, criminal proceedings in a justice of the peace court must be commenced by complaint under oath setting forth the offense charged, with such particulars as to time, place, person, and property as may be necessary to enable the defendant to understand the character of the offense charged, and to make answer thereto.  Complaints for non-payment of the cedula tax and for infractions of municipal ordinances must be endorsed "approved" by the municipal president, but where infractions of laws or ordinances concerning the public health are concerned, the complaint must be so endorsed by the district health officer, the president of the sanitary division, the president of the municipal health district, the president of the municipal board of health, or the municipal president.' "

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, February 24, 1920.