By authority of the United States, and with the concurrence and approval of the Secretary of War first had, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. Rule forty-eight of Act Numbered Ninety is hereby amended by adding fit the close thereof the following:

"There is hereby created and shall be maintained the office of Cashier of the Treasurer of the Islands, to be filled by appointment of the Secretary of War, whose duties shall be, under the supervision of the Treasurer, to receive and disburse cash in the office ol the Treasurer and have charge of the cash room and perform such other duties as the Treasurer may assign to him. He shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars. He shall have charge of the Bureau of the Treasury as Acting Treasurer in case of the death, resignation, sickness, or other absence of the Treasurer. He shall give bond, the amount and sufficiency of which shall be fixed and approved in the same manner as the Treasurer's bond."

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.