Amends capital designation in Nueva Ecija

Act No. 398 is enacted by authority of the United States Philippine Commission.
Section 1 expressly amends Section 5 of Act No. 139.
Act No. 398 concerns only the capital designation for the province of Nueva Ecija.

Section 1 requires that the capital of the province shall be at the town of San Isidro “as formerly.”
Section 1 authorizes a change of the capital if a voting condition is met at a specific meeting.

Section 1 sets the meeting for the semiannual meeting of the presidents to be held on the third Monday of May, nineteen hundred and two.
Section 1 requires that a majority of all the presidents of the province must vote to change the capital from San Isidro to “some other town in the province.”
Section 1 provides that the chosen town becomes the capital only after a date to be decided upon by the provincial board.
Section 1 imposes a deadline: the date decided upon by the provincial board shall not be later than January 1, nineteen hundred and three.
Section 1 states that once the date condition is satisfied, the new town “shall then become the capital.”

Section 2 declares that the public good requires the speedy enactment of Act No. 398.
Section 2 directs that passage is expedited under Section 2 of “An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws,” passed September 26, 1900.
Section 3 provides immediate effect upon passage.