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

SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered One hundred and sixty-nine, entitled "An Act annexing the Island of Catanduanes to the Province of Albay," is hereby amended by adding at the end of section one thereof the following words: "and shall hereafter be known as the subprovince of Catanduanes of the Province of Albay."

SEC. 2. Section two of said Act Numbered One hundred and sixty-nine is hereby amended  by adding at the end thereof the following words: "except as hereinafter provided."

SEC.3. Sections three and four of said Act Numbered One hundred and sixty-nine shall become sections five and six, and new sections three and four shall lie inserted as follows:

"SEC. 3. There shall be a lieutenant-governor for the subprovince of Catandnanes, to be appointed by the Governor-General, with the advice and consent of the Philippine Commission. He shall' have his oil ice in the municipality of Virac, and shall receive an annual salary not to exceed one thousand four hundred and forty pesos, payable monthly from funds of the subprovince hereinafter provided for: he shall represent the provincial governor in the sub-province and shall carry out the directions of that official as transmitted to him from, time to time: he shall inspect the municipalities of the subprovince at least once every" six months and shall make report to the provincial hoard, through the provincial governor: he shall from time to time make such recommendations to the provincial board, through the provincial governor, as he shall deem necessary for the best interests of the subprovince: he shall employ and discharge, with the approval of the provincial board, all subordinate employees of the government of the subprovince that may be authorized by the board ; he shall be the custodian of the public records and documents of the subprovince; and, in. general, he shall exercise, subject to the supervision of the provincial governor, the powers and duties conferred upon a provincial governor by the Provincial Government Act.

"SEC. 4. Seventy per centum of all taxes, imposts, or fines collected in behalf of the Province of Albay in the subprovince of Calanduanes under the provisions of existing law, or of laws which may hereafter be enacted, shall remain in the provincial sub-treasury at Yirac for the sole use and benefit of the inhabitants of said subprovince; and the remaining thirty per centum of such collections shall be transmitted to the provincial treasury of Albay and shall inure to the general funds of the province. The funds thus provided for the subprovinee of Catanduanes shall be expended by resolution of the provincial hoard of Albay and the deputy of the provincial treasurer in charge of the sub-treasury at Virac shall make payments from funds of the subprovince only by direction of the lieutenant-governor of the subprovince accompanied by a certified copy of the resolution of the provincial board authorizing the expenditure. The salary of the deputy of the provincial treasurer  in charge of the provincial sub-treasury at Yirac shall be paid from the funds of the subprovincc of Catanduanes."

SEC. 4. 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, April 19, 1905.