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

SECTION 1. Section seventeen of Act Numbered of Act Numbered One hundred eighty-three, entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Manila," is hereby amended by relettering paragraph (ii) thereof (kk), and by adding thereto after paragraph (hh) thereof, the following paragraphs:

"(ii) To regulate, control, and prevent discrimination in the sale and supply of gas, electricity, and telephone and street-railway service, and fix and regulate rates and charges therefor where the same have not been fixed by Act of Congress or the Philippine Commission; and to provide for the inspection of all gas, electric, telephone, and street-railway wires, conduits, meters, and other apparatus, and the condemnation and correction or removal of the same when dangerous or defective.

"(jj) To declare, prevent, and abate nuisances, and to regulate the ringing of bells and the making of loud or unusual noises."

SEC. 2. 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. 3. This act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, February 3, 1903.