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

SECTION 1. Clerks of Courts of First Instance appointed by virtue of section fifty-eight of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-six, providing for the organization of courts, shall receive salaries at the rates hereinafter specified, payable monthly.

For the Provinces of Iloilo and Cebu, one thousand two hundred dollars each.

For the Provinces of Pangasinan, Batangas, and Occidental Negros, one thousand one hundred dollars each.

For the Provinces of Pampanga, Bulacan, Bohol, and Leyte, one thousand dollars each.

For the Provinces of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Union (including Benguet), Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Rizal, Laguna, Cavite, Tayabas (including Infanta, Principe, and Polillo), Albay (including Catanduanes), Ambos Camarines, Capiz, Antique, Samar, and Misamis, nine hundred dollars each.

For the Provinces of Cagayan, Zambales, Bataan, Mindoro, Sorsogon, Oriental Negros, and Surigao, eight hundred dollars each.

For the Provinces of Isabela, Abra, and Marinduque, seven hundred dollars each.

For the Provinces of Lepanto (including Bontoc), Romblon, and the Island of Paragua, five hundred dollars each.

For the Provinces of Nueva, Vizcaya and Masbate, four hundred dollars each.

For the Sulu group, Tawi-Tawi group, and Calamianes group, three hundred dollars each.

For the Comandancia of Dapitan and the districts of Zamhoanga, Cottabato, Davao, and Basilan, one clerk at a salary of seven hundred dollars, who shall appoint one deputy clerk for each of said districts and Comandancia at a salary of two hundred dollars each.

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this Act, 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, June 26, 1901.