Section 1
Section 1. The next general election for provincial and municipal officials, including all municipal councilors, shall be held on the first Tuesday of June, nineteen hundred and twelve, and subsequent general elections on the same date each four years thereafter. The term of office of provincial and municipal officials elected at Term of office such general election or subsequent general elections shall be four years, and shall commence on the sixteenth day of October next following their election. The present incumbents of provincial and municipal offices shall continue in office until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified: Provided, however, That if the Congress of the United Slates at the close of the present session shall not have postponed the next general election for Delegates to the Philippine Assembly next year, the next general election for Delegates to the Philippine Assembly and for provincial and municipal officials as above provided shall be held on the fifth day of September of the present year. In such event the following provisions of section twenty-nine of Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-two, to wit: "No person holding an elective public office, to which such person has been elected, shall present his candidacy, nor shall he be eligible while holding such office, at any municipal, provincial, or Assembly election, except for reelection to the office held by him," shall not be applicable to such election.