ACTS OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION.
AN ACT Amending section five of Act Numbered Seventy-four, establishing a Department of Public Instruction, as amended, by authorizing the Director of Education, with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, to change, increase, or decrease the existing school divisions of the Philippine Islands.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. Section five of Act Numbered Seventy-four, establishing a Department of Public Instruction, as amended by Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and thirty-seven, is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the following proviso:
"Provided, That the Director of Education, with the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, may change, increase, or decrease the school divisions herein established whenever in his judgment the public interests so require."
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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred.
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its
Enacted, October 5, 1906.
AN ACT Authorizing the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company to bring suit against the Government of the Philippine Islands in the Court of First Instance of the city of Manila to determine the liability of the respective parties for damages caused to the Luneta Extension by the typhoon of May eighteenth and nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. Authority is hereby granted the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company, a company or corporation authorized to do business in the Philippine Islands, to institute a suit in the Court of First Instance of the city of Manila against the Government of the Philippine Islands, to determine the liability of the respective parties for damages done to the bulkhead and rock revetment of the Luneta Extension by the typhoon of May eighteenth and nineteenth, nineteen