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

SECTION 1. Section three of Act Numbered Eighteen hundred and seventy-six, entitled "An Act providing for the establishment of a province to be known as the Mountain Province, for the establishment of a prison at Bontoc for non-Christian criminals, changing the boundaries of the Province of Nueva Vizcaya, amending Act Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-seven, as amended, by changing the boundaries of the Mountain Judicial District and the times and places of holding Courts of First instance in the said district, providing for participation by the Mountain Province in the distribution of internal-revenue collections, and repealing all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act,' is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 3. The Mountain Province shall be organized under the Special Provincial Government Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six and the provisions of sections one to twenty-two, inclusive, of said Act, as amended, and the provisions of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled 'The Township Government Act,' as amended, shall apply to said province and to its townships and settlements, respectively.

"Within the territory of their respective subprovinces the lieutenant-governors of the Mountain Province shall have the powers and perform the duties prescribed for and imposed upon lieutenant-governors by subdivisions (e) and (f), paragraph three of section twenty-four of the Special Provincial Government Act.

"The duties with respect to the purchase and custody of provincial property, required by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six to be performed by the provincial supervisor, shall, in the Mountain Province, be performed by the provincial secretary-treasurer, who shall purchase all stationery and office supplies and shall be accountable for the custody, care, preservation and proper use of all public property pertaining to the Mountain Province."

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, April 13, 1909.