Section 1
SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Seven hundred and seventy-four, amending paragraph (j) of section forty-three of Act Numbered Eighty-two, entitled "A general Act for the organization of municipal governments in the Philippine Islands," is hereby amended by adding thereto the following paragraph: "Notwithstanding the fact that, by its terms, this Act shall not go into general effect throughout the provinces until the first day of December, nineteen hundred and three, provincial boards are hereby authorized to apply the provisions hereof immediately to any particular road or roads in the province, whenever in their judgment such protection is required and the public interests will not otherwise be prejudiced."