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

SECTION 1. Section eight of Act Numbered Four hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An Act to provide for taking a census of the Philippine Islands," as amended by Act Numbered Four hundred and eighty-six, is hereby further amended by adding at the close of said section the following:

"Any person in the insular, provincial, or municipal service of the Government of the Philippine Islands, if otherwise qualified, shall be eligible for appointment as enumerator, special agent, clerk, or messenger, as provided in this Act, and shall be entitled to receive, in addition to his regular salary as Insular, provincial, or municipal officer, the amount herein provided as compensation for enumerator, special agent, clerk, or messenger. In case an Army officer who has been detailed as provincial governor of any province shall be appointed as supervisor of the census, he shall not receive the compensation provided for in this section, but shall receive a per diem of five dollars from Insular funds, in addition to the per diem received from the province, in lieu of all expenses incurred by him as supervisor, subject to the provisos contained in this section in reference to compensation to supervisors of the census."

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.