Section 1
SECTION 1. Act Numbered Four hundred and forty-five, entitled "An Act providing for the establishment of civil governments in the settlements of the non-Christian tribes of the Province of Abra," is hereby amended so that the requirement of sections fifty-two and fifty-three of Act Numbered Three hundred and eighty-seven. providing for the establishment of local civil governments in the townships and settlements of Nueva Vizcaya, which by said Act Numbered Four hundred and forty-five were made applicable to the settlements of the non-Christian tribes of the Province of Abra, shall be suspended, in so far as they require property owners and taxpayers to make a declaration of the value of their property before the president of the township in which they live or in which their property lies before the thirty-first day of January, nineteen hundred and three, and it shall be a sufficient compliance for the year nineteen hundred and three with such sections of the law if the declarations therein required are made before the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and three; and the provisions of law imposing penalties for failure to make the proper declarations before the thirty-first of January, nineteen hundred and three, are modified so that, for the year nineteen hundred and three, no penalties shall attach to failure to make such declarations if they are made before the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and three.