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[ Act No. 462, September 15, 1902 ]

AN ACT CHANGING THE TITLE OF "DEPARTMENT OF POSTS" TO "BUREAU OF POSTS" AND THE TITLE OF "DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF POSTS" TO "DIRECTOR OF POSTS."

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

SECTION 1. The title of "Department of Posts" is hereby changed to that of "Bureau of Posts," and the title of "Director-General of Posts" is hereby changed to that of "Director of Posts."

SEC. 2. The powers and duties of the Director of Posts shall in all respects be the same as those formerly exercised by the Director-General of Posts, and the Bureau of Posts shall perform the same functions in all respects as those heretofore performed by the Department of Posts; and nothing herein contained shall affect existing orders or laws relating to the Department of Posts or Director-General of Posts, which shall be applicable in every particular to the Bureau of Posts and the Director of Posts.

SEC. 3. 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, September 15, 1902.
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