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[No. 1567.]

AN ACT Amending Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and ninety-six by extending the time allowed for the operations of the several boards engaged in the assessment of land values and also authorizing municipal boards of assessors to remain in session during the entire month of December, nineteen hundred and six, and providing for the performance of additional duties by the supervisor of land assessments, should the same be required.

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

SECTION 1. Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "An Act extending the several periods fixed by law for the performance of the duties of assessors and provincial boards of tax appeals and the central equalizing board for the assessments of land values for the purposes of taxation, imposing penalties upon owners of real estate who fail to declare their property, and extending the time within which land taxes may be paid without penalty," is hereby

amended as follows:

(a) By extending the time prescribed in paragraph three of section one for the board of tax appeals to receive and hear complaints from December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six, to March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven: Provided, That the provincial board of tax appeals on and after January first, nineteen hundred and seven, shall consist solely of the provincial board of each province, anything in Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifty-five, as amended, to the contrary notwithstanding, but the terms of this proviso shall not extend to the Provinces of Samar, Cavite, and Isabela until elections for provincial governors in said provinces are held and the governors elected shall have duly qualified and taken possession of their offices.

(b) By carrying forward for three months in each case the dates fixed in paragraphs four, five, six, seven, and eight of said section and the dates fixed in sections three and six, so as to further extend the time allowed for the operations of the several boards engaged in the assessment of land values.

SEC. 2. The municipal boards of assessors provided for by section sixty-three of Act Numbered Eighty-two, known as The Municipal Code, are hereby authorized to remain in session during the entire month of December, nineteen hundred and six, if in their opinion necessary for the interests of the public service, anything in the said section to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 3. The Supervisor of Land Assessments, in addition to the duties prescribed by Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifty-five, as amended, shall perform such other duties as may be assigned him by the Governor-General.

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 procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, December 10, 1906.

[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.
Enacted, December 10, 1906.

[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.
Enacted, December 12, 1906.

[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:

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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.
Enacted, December 12, 1906.

[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.

Enacted, December 13, 1906.

[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 there for 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 Romblom 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."

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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.
Enacted, December 13, 1906.

[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, contínue in force the rate of duty

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