Section 1
SECTION 1. Act Numbered One hundred and fifty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the establishment of government laboratories for the Philippine Islands," is hereby amended as follows: (a) By striking out section one and substituting therefor the following: "SECTION 1. A Biological Laboratory, a Chemical Laboratory, and a laboratory for the production of virus and of prophylactics shall be established and maintained by the Government of the Philippine Islands." (b) By striking out section four and substituting therefor the following: "SEC. 4. The Serum Laboratory shall be established at Manila and shall afford adequate facilities for the production of vaccine virus and of serums and of prophylactics in such quantity as the public interest may demand." (c) By striking out paragraph (a) of section seven and substituting therefor the following: "(a) The Superintendent of Government Laboratories shall be the Director of either the Biological or the Chemical Laboratory, as the Civil Governor shall determine, and the commission approve, and the other of these laboratories shall be under the supervision of a Director, who shall receive compensation at the rate of three thousand five hundred dollars per year. the Serum Laboratory shall be under the supervision of a Director, who shall receive compensation at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per year. The three Directors shall be experts in their respective lines of work, and shall personally carry on original investigations." (d) By adding at the close of paragraph (b) of section seven the following words: "Provided, That the Superintendent of Government Laboratories shall exercise general methods of work and lines of investigation, and the prescribing of the duties of its employees, shall be subject to his approval." (e) By striking out of section eight the words "biological and chemical" whenever they occur, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "biological, chemical, and serum"; and by striking out the words "biological or chemical" whenever they occur, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "biological, chemical, or serum." (f) By striking out section nine and substituting therefor the following: "SEC. 9. The Superintendent of Government Laboratories and the additional Directors provided for in section seven shall be appointed by the Civil Governor, by and with the consent of the Commission." (g) By striking out section ten.