Be it  enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the  Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority  of the same:

SECTION  1.  The Secretary of  Justice is hereby authorized to purchase the original of Dr. Jose Rizal's novel "El Filibusterismo," to be deposited in the Philippine Library and Museum, as property of the Insular Government.

SEC. 2.  The sum  of ten  thousand  pesos is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular  Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be disbursed in its entirety or so  much thereof as may be necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary  of Justice, for the purchase  of the original of  "El Filibusterismo."

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its  approval.

Approved, November 27, 1925.