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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. Subsection (c) of section fourteen of Act Numbered Three thousand and forty-five is hereby amended to read as follows :

"(c) If after such examination, or without the same, the Director of Public Works or his deputies believe the applicant to possess the necessary qualifications and knowledge, they shall, upon the receipt of a fee of two pesos, issue to such applicant a license to operate, as a chauffeur, motor vehicles of the kind, style, type, or make and power described in the application, until the last working day of February next following, or until such license is otherwise revoked. Each applicant for a license as chauffeur, except an owner not operating for hire, shall, upon notice that his qualifications have been found satisfactory, and prior to the issuance of said license, furnish the Director of Public Works or his deputies, three copies of a recent and readily recognizable photograph of said applicant, one copy of which shall be securely attached to the license, and two copies of which shall be filed and kept as provided under section eighteen of this Act. If the said Director or his deputies do not believe the applicant to be a person qualified to operate motor vehicles, they shall not issue a license as chauffeur to such applicant, in which event the applicant's fee shall be returned to him."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
 
Approved, February 19, 1923.