By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. With the concurrence and approval of the Secretary of War first, had rule forty-eight of Act Numbered Ninety, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding the following words: "The Secretary of Finance and Justice is authorized to designate, from time to time, either the chief of the division of currency, the chief of provincial division, the chief clerk, the paying teller, or the receiving teller, of the Bureau of the Insular Treasury, as Acting Assistant Treasurer during the absence of the Assistant Treasurer and when the Assistant Treasurer, by virtue of his office, is performing the duties of Acting Treasurer. In the absence of both the Treasurer and the Assistant Treasurer, the employee so designated shall take charge of the Bureau as Acting Treasurer."
SEC. 2. With like concurrence and approval of the Secretary of War first had, the provisions of rule numbered sixty-three of said Act are hereby repealed and the following substituted in lieu thereof:
"RULE 63. The Civil Governor shall cause to be made, as often as he deems expedient, an examination of the books and accounts of the Auditor and Treasurer and a comparison of the results as shown by the same, and also an examination and count of the moneys in the hands of the Treasurer, and submit the report thereon to the Secretary of War."
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, August 5, 1904.