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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. Section two thousand two hundred of Act Numbered Two thousand seven hundred eleven, otherwise known as the Administrative Code of the Philippine Islands, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2200. Nominations to be made by president.—Nominations to all places that may be filled by appointment of the president shall be by him submitted to the council at its first meeting after his assumption of office; and if a vacancy occurs in any such place during the term of office of the president he shall submit a nomination therefor at the next regular meeting of the council. If a nomination should be rejected, the president shall submit the name of another nominee for the place at the next regular meeting of the council, and in case the second nomination is also rejected by the said council, the president may appeal to the provincial board within ten days and said provincial board shall have the power and duty to decide the controversy over said appointment within fifteen days after receiving such appeal, and in case the municipal president does not agree with the decision of the provincial board, he may also appeal against the resolution of the same to the Chief of the Executive Bureau who shall decide said appeal within twenty days from the receipt of the same and whose decision shall be final."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, December 1, 1928.