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

SECTION 1. Provincial boards are hereby authorized to appropriate provincial funds for the payment, in whole or in part, for buildings or personal property destroyed by order of municipal, provincial, or insular health boards: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting the right of such health boards to require the owners of buildings to keep the same in sanitary condition, or to abate the same as nuisance if not so kept, without compensation; the purpose of this section being to authorized the payment provided for above in such cases as may seem to the provincial boards equitable and just.

SEC. 2. Provincial boards are hereby further authorized to loan money to any municipality within their respective provinces for the purpose of combatting contagious diseases when such municipality has not in its treasury funds sufficient to combat contagious diseases prevalent or likely to become prevalent in such municipality, and to meet its other necessary and lawful expenses.

SEC. 3. 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, April 18, 1902.