Section 15
SEC. 15. The provisions of this Act shall not apply to the organized Provinces of Batangas, Cebu, and Bohol, nor to any province where civil government has not been established, so long as insurrection against the authority of the United States exists therein, unless the Commanding General of the Army of the United States, Division of the Philippines, shall authorize and direct prosecutions in the civil courts in such territories for offenses under this Act, in which event it shall apply.