Section 1. In all cases in which the head of a department, because of absence or disability, is unable to discharge the duties and exercise the powers of his office, such duties may be discharged and such powers exercised by the Civil Governor, instead of by the head of the department.
Section 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. 1aшphi1
Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, December 3, 1902.