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

SECTION 1. Act Numbered Eighty-two, entitled "The Municipal Code" is hereby amended by inserting after the word "following," in the fifth line of paragraph (a), of section nine thereof, the following words: "Provided, That the Civil Governor may in his discretion postpone municipal elections in any province when, on account of the prevalence of ladronism, or for other causes, he may deem such a course conducive to the public interest," so that the first sentence of this paragraph shall read as follows: "General municipal elections (except the first, for which special provision is hereinafter made, in Chapter VIII) shall he held on the first Tuesday in December of each year, and the officers elected thereat shall enter upon their duties on the first Monday of January following: Provided, That the Civil Governor may in his discretion postpone municipal elections in any province when, on account of the prevalence of ladronism, or for other causes, he may deem such a course conducive to the public interest."

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, November 10, 1902.