Section 7
SEC. 7. The jurisdiction conferred by this Act and the General Provincial Act upon the provincial officers, hereunder to be appointed, over the territory herein described as the Province of Surigao shall not extend to the government of members of non-Christian tribes living therein, who shall, notwithstanding this Act, be subject to the jurisdiction of the departmental government of the Island of Mindanao hereafter to be established. The police powers of the provincial government and of the municipalities established in the province under the Municipal Code as to non-Christian tribes shall be exercised only to prevent or prosecute breaches of peace, or crimes by members of non-Christian tribes against Filipinos, citizens of the United States or foreigners, but shall not be exercised to maintain the peace or prevent crimes between members of the non-Christian tribes.