Section 1
SECTION 1. Section thirteen of Act Numbered Seventeen hundred and three, as amended by Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and twenty-three, is hereby further amended to read as follows: "SEC. 13. Provincial boards may, with the approval of the Governor-General, direct the confinement of municipal board' prisoners in provincial jails, when by reason of the lack, inadequacy, or insecurity of municipal jails such action becomes necessary, or when in their judgment such confinement would best subserve the public interest. The cost of maintenance of such prisoners while confined in the provincial jails shall be a charge against the municipality to which the prisoners pertain at a per capita rate per day, not exceeding twenty centavos, to be fixed by the provincial board. "Provincial boards may, also, with the approval of the Governor-General, direct the confinement of persons detained pending preliminary investigation before a judge of the Court of First Instance or pending trial before the Court of First Instance, in the jail of the municipality where such investigation or trial is to be held, if no provincial jail be located therein: Provided, That such prisoners shall be maintained during their confinement in the municipal jail at the expense of the province."