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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 Four hundred and seventeen, entitled "An Act annexing the districts of Infanta and Principe and the Island of Polillo to the Province of Tayabas," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:

"The limits of the districts of Infanta and Principe shall be defined as follows: To include all the territory south or east of the following boundary: An east and west line passing ten miles north of Point Dinapiqui at the north entrance of Dilasac Bay, from the Pacific coast, and extending to a point twenty miles west of the said coast; thence in a direct line to a point twenty miles west of the town of Kagisuran; and proceeding in another direct line to a point fifty miles west of Cape San Ildefonso at the eastern entrance of Kasiguran Bay; thence in a direct line to a point twenty miles west of the town of Baler; thence continuing in another direct line to a point twenty miles west of the town of Infanta (formerly Binangonan de Lampon); from this point in a direct line to a point ten miles west of the Pacific Ocean, and on the existing boundary between the Provinces of Rizal and La Laguna; and thence proceeding in a line parallel to the Pacific coast, and ten miles to the west thereof, to its intersection with the present boundary between the Provinces of La Laguna and Tayabas; and to include all the territory and islands west or north of a line proceeding from the point where the previously described east and west line north of Point Dinapiqui meets the Pacific coast to a point twenty-five miles east of the most eastern extremity of the Island of Polillo; thence to a point ten miles east of the most eastern extremity of the Island of Jomalig, continuing to a point six miles north of the coast of Luzon, and thence, parallel to said coast uniting with the boundary between the Provinces of Tayabas and Ambos Camarines at its present termination."

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, January 2, 1903.