By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:

SECTION 1. The librarian, Philippines Library, is hereby authorized, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Public Instruction, to purchase the original manuscript of the novel "Noli Me Tangere," by Doctor Rizal, and all the books, pamphlets, papers, and other documents that remain of his private library, to form part of the Philippines Library.

SEC. 2. For the purposes of the next preceding section, the sum of thirty-two thousand pesos, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Insular Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the same shall take effect on its passage, in accordance with section one of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and forty-five of the Philippine Legislature.

Enacted, January 26, 1911.