[No. 1568.] AN ACT To amend section fourteen of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and seven, entitled "The Reorganization Act," repealing section sixteen of said act and merging the Bureau of Port Works with the Bureau of Navigation. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section fourteen of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and seven, entitled "The Reorganization Act," is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subsection lettered (d), as follows: "(d) The Bureau of Port Works is hereby abolished as a bureau and is constituted a division of the Bureau of Navigation, to be known as the Division of Port Works, which shall be in charge of an officer to be known as the Chief of the Division of Port Works, by which the duties and services required of the Bureau of Port Works by law in force at the time of the passage of this Act shall be performed under the general supervision of the Director of Navigation." SEC. 2. Section sixteen of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and seven, entitled "The Reorganization Act," is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. Whenever an officer of the United States Army is detailed for service as Chief of the Division of Port Works he shall be entitled to a per diem of ten pesos, out of funds appropriated for the Bureau of Navigation. SEC. 4. 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 precedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1569.] AN ACT Amending section twenty-seven of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and sixty-one by providing a permanent appropriation for the payment of rewards to persons furnishing original evidence leading to the detection of violations of the provisions of said Act. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section twenty-seven of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and sixty-one is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: "For the purpose of paying such rewards to informers, a permanent appropriation of the sum so required is hereby made out of any moneys collected under the provisions of this Act." SEC. 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 precedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1570.] AN ACT Amending Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-nine, by relieving the Insular Treasurer of the custody of internal-revenue stamps and cedulas, and placing the same in the custody of the Collector of Internal Revenue. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section six of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-nine is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 6. The necessary adhesive stamps for the payment of taxes in this Act provided and the necessary blank cedulas shall be printed upon the requisition of the Collector of Internal Revenue in such denominations and amounts as he shall designate, and shall remain in his custody and he shall be responsible for them until disposed of as in this Act provided. The Collector of Internal Revenue shall distribute them to provincial treasurers or other collectors of internal revenue as the law requires, and shall make monthly reports to the Auditor of the number of blank cedulas and stamps received and issued during the preceding month and the number on hand at the close of the month." SEC. 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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1571.] AN ACT Amending sections seventy-four and one hundred and seven of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-nine, as amended. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-nine, entitled "The Internal Revenue Law of Nineteen hundred and four," as amended, is hereby further amended as follows: (a) By striking out in section seventy-four, as amended by paragraph (c) of section one of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and thirty-eight, and paragraph (a) of section one of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and seventeen, the words "nineteen hundred and seven," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "nineteen hundred and eight." (b) By striking out in section one hundred and seven, as amended by paragraph (f) of section one of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and thirty-eight, and paragraph (b) of section one of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and seventeen, the words "nineteen hundred and seven," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "nineteen hundred and eight." SEC. 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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1572.] AN ACT Providing that one fiscal shall perform the duties of fiscal for the Provinces of Capiz and Romblon, abolishing the offices of fiscal of Capiz and of Romblon and Palawan as heretofore authorized by law, fixing the salary of the fiscal of the two provinces, and making provision for the traveling expenses of such fiscal. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The duties of fiscal for the Provinces of Capiz and Romblon hereafter shall be performed by one fiscal, whose salary shall be twenty-seven hundred pesos per annum, of which two thousand pesos shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Capiz and seven hundred pesos out of the Insular appropriation for "Judiciary," Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and twenty-seven. The fiscal for the two provinces shall reside at Capiz, Province of Capiz. Such traveling expenses of the fiscal in the Province of Capiz as are authorized by law shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Capiz, and like traveling expenses in the Province of Romblon shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Romblon. The necessary expenses in traveling from the capital of one of such provinces to that of the other in the performance of his duties as fiscal shall be borne two-thirds by the Province of Capiz and one-third out of the appropriation "Judiciary," Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and twenty-seven. The expense of such clerical assistance, if any, as shall be authorized for the fiscal shall be paid two-thirds by the Province of Capiz and one-third out of the appropriation "Judiciary," Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and twenty-seven. Beginning with the fiscal year, July first, nineteen hundred and seven, such proportion of salaries and traveling expenses as are herein authorized to be paid out of Insular funds shall be paid from the treasury of the Province of Romblon. SEC. 2. The offices of fiscal of the Provinces of Capiz and of Romblon and Palawan as heretofore authorized by law are hereby abolished and the fiscal authorized by section one of this Act shall have power to perform the duties appertaining by law to the office of fiscal in Capiz and in Romblon Provinces. The Attorney-General is hereby authorized and directed, whenever the necessity therefor arises, to designate any assistant attorney or fiscal to perform in the Province of Palawan the duties of fiscal heretofore performed by the fiscal of Romblon and Palawan. SEC. 3. 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 twentysixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and seven. Enacted, December 13, 1906. [No. 1573.] AN ACT Extending from January first, nineteen hundred and seven, to January first, nineteen hundred and nine, the time within which free patents may be granted to native settlers upon unreserved and unappropriated agricultural public lands. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Any native of the Philippine Islands now an occupant and cultivator of unreserved and unappropriated agricultural public lands, as defined by the Act of Congress of July first, nineteen hundred and two, who has continuously occupied and cultivated such lands either by himself or through his ancestors since August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, or, who, prior to August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, continuously occupied and cultivated such lands for three years immediately prior to said date, and who has been continuously since July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, until the date of the taking effect of this Act an occupier and cultivator of such lands, shall be entitled to have a patent issued to him without compensation for such tract of land, not exceeding sixteen hectares, in the manner provided in Chapter Four of Act Numbered Nine hundred and twenty-six, "The Public Land Act," provided that his application therefor be filed as provided in said chapter prior to January first, nineteen hundred and nine, instead of January first, nineteen hundred and seven, as now provided by section thirty-three of "The Public Land Act," and said section thirty-three is hereby so amended that the words "nineteen hundred and seven" shall be stricken out and in lieu thereof shall be inserted the words "nineteen hundred and nine." SEC. 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. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1574.] AN ACT Continuing in force the existing rate of duty on rice imported into the Philippine Islands. Whereas by the terms of paragraph two hundred and seventy-six of the Act of Congress of March third, nineteen hundred and five, entitled "An Act to revise and amend the tariff laws of the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes," it is provided that the Philippine Commission may, in its discretion, continue in force the rate of duty first therein stated, until in its opinion the conditions in the Philippine Islands may warrant the higher rates therein provided; and Whereas it appears to the Philippine Commission that the existing conditions in the Philippine Islands do not warrant the higher rates of duty therein provided to take effect on and after January first, nineteen hundred and seven: Therefore, By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The existing rates of duty upon rice unhusked, husked, and in flour, imported into the Philippine Islands, are hereby continued in force until May first, nineteen hundred and eight. SEC. 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. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 1575.] AN ACT So amending Act Numbered Eleven hundred and forty-eight, entitled "The Forest Act," as to provide but one scale of taxes on timber for all provinces. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section eleven of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and forty-eight, entitled "The Forest Act," is hereby amended by striking out of said section the first three paragraphs thereof beginning with the words "For the purposes of this Act " and ending with the words "Samar, Surigao, and Tayabas." SEC. 2. Section twelve of said Act is hereby amended in the following particulars: (a) Paragraph three of section twelve of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "On all timber included in the first group, two pesos and fifty centavos." (b) Paragraph four of section twelve of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: “On all timber included in the second group, one peso and fifty centavos." (c) Paragraph five of section twelve of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "On all timber included in the third group, one peso." (d) Paragraph six of section twelve of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "On all timber included in the fourth group and on all nonenumerated timber, fifty centavos: Provided, That the taxes imposed in this section on ebony and camagon shall be charged on said timbers when presented for measurement and appraisal with the sapwood still attached; and the number of cubic meters in each piece of timber so measured shall include the sapwood attached to the same, and when ebony or camagon timber from which the sapwood has been stripped is presented for measurement and appraisal there shall be assessed and collected the following sums:" |
