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 three of Act Numbered Twenty-eight hundred and seventy-eight, entitled "An Act abolishing the Government of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu as a special political division; making the necessary provisions for the administrative adjustments resulting therefrom, and for other purposes," is hereby amended by striking out the proviso, so that said section shall read as follows:

"SEC. 3. The several departments, bureaus, and offices of the Insular Government shall hereafter exercise the same jurisdiction, and are hereby charged with the same duties, relating to their respective branches in all the provinces heretofore included in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, in the same manner as in the regularly organized provinces."

SEC. 2. The additional positions in the Bureau of Justice created by said section three of Act Numbered Twenty-eight hundred and seventy-eight are hereby abolished, and in lieu thereof there shall be a provincial fiscal in each province of the former Department of Mindanao and Sulu, who shall be qualified and appointed in the same manner as the fiscals of the regularly organized provinces.

SEC. 3. The provincial fiscals of Davao, Sulu, and Zamboanga shall be paid a salary of four thousand pesos per annum each, and the provincial fiscals of Agusan, Bukidnon, Cotabato, and Lanao shall be paid a salary of three thousand pesos per annum each.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, February 16, 1921.