Board of Tax Revision in the city of Manila, and any provincial board of revision, shall complete its work, anything in Act Numbered Five hundred and eighty-one, entitled "An Act to provide for the revision of the assessment upon real estate in the city of Manila," or in Act Numbered Five hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An Act to provide for the partial revision of the assessments upon real estate in the municipalities in the Philippine Islands outside the city of Manila,” to the contrary notwithstanding, and in the event of such extension by the Civil Governor, he shall also direct that the date upon which the payment of taxes under such revised assessment shall become delinquent shall be likewise extended. 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. 734.] AN ACT authorizing the employment of school teachers as collaborators of the Forestry Bureau and providing for additional compensation as such. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The Chief of the Forestry Bureau is authorized, in his discretion, to appoint public school teachers, not to exceed six in number, as collaborators of the Forestry Bureau during the school vacation only. Persons so appointed are hereby authorized to receive a compensation at the rate of seventy-five dollars monthly as collaborators of the Forestry Bureau in addition to the compensation which they receive as teachers, the provisions of Act Numbered One hundred and forty-eight, to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. The additional salaries of teachers appointed under the provisions of this Act for the second half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three are hereby made a proper charge against the appropriation for "Salaries and wages, Forestry Bureau, nineteen hundred and three,' made in Act Numbered Five hundred and ninety-five. 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 twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 735.] AN ACT authorizing the Superintendent of Government Laboratories to sell certain public animals when they are no longer required for use in the Serum Laboratories. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The Superintendent of Government Laboratories is hereby authorized to sell at public or private sale to butchers for food purposes, or to others, animals originally purchased for use in connection with the operation of the Serum Laboratory, when the said animals are no longer adapted to the use of the said Laboratory, but are fit for food purposes. Such sales may be made on the best terms obtainable, the provisions of section fourteen of Act Numbered Two hundred and fifteen relative to the sale of public animals to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. The sums realized from such sales shall be deposited in the Insular Treasury as "miscellaneous receipts," and an account thereof rendered to the Auditor, the same to be accompanied by a list or abstract showing the number of animals sold, the name of each purchaser, and the price received for each animal. 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 twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 736.] AN ACT for the relief of George M. Havice, superintendent of the San Ramon Government Farm. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: Whereas, George M. Havice, superintendent of the San Ramon Government Farm, on or about May twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and two, left in the custody of a corporal of the United States Army in charge of a detachment of soldiers on duty as guard at the said San Ramon Government Farm the sum of five hundred dollars, local currency; and Whereas the said sum of money was stolen from said guards through no fault of the said Havice; and Whereas a board of survey appointed for the purpose of investigating the facts and circumstances connected with the loss of said money finds that said Havice exercised due care and diligence in the preservation of the same: Therefore, SECTION 1. Said George M. Havice is hereby relieved from accountability for said funds, and the Auditor is hereby authorized to place to his credit the sum of five hundred dollars, local currency, on account of the appropriation for said Government farm. 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. 737.] AN ACT to amend Act Numbered Three hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An Act to reorganize the personnel of the Philippine Customs Service.” By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered Three hundred and sixtyseven of the Philippine Commission, entitled "An Act to reorganize the personnel of the Philippine Customs Service," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: "One deputy surveyor of customs of class three." 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. 738.] AN ACT appropriating the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, in money of the United States, for preliminary expenses in the purchase of draft cattle for the relief of agricultural conditions in the Philippine Islands. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The sum of one hundred thousand dollars, in money of the United States, is hereby appropriated out of the three million dollars voted by the Congress of the United States for the relief of agricultural depression in the Philippine Islands and now on deposit in the depository of the Philippine Government in the city of New York to the credit of the Insular Treasury, for the preliminary expenses of the Insular Purchasing Agent and other agents of the Insular Government in visiting the ports and countries where draft cattle may be purchased, in paying agents for the procuring of such cattle, in securing the necessary immunization against rinderpest of the cattle purchased, in paying the purchase price for same, in chartering the necessary transportation for their importation into the Philippine Islands, and for all other expenses incident to their purchase and delivery in the Philippine Islands. SEC. 2. The sum of money by this Act appropriated shall be expended by the Insular Purchasing Agent, and accounted for by him as provided by law. 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 its passage. [No. 739.] AN ACT extending the provisions of section eighteen of Act Numbered Eightythree, as amended, and of section two of Act Numbered Three hundred and eleven to provinces organized under the Nueva Vizcayan Acts Numbered Three hundred and thirty-seven and Three hundred and eighty-seven, and amending section two of Act Numbered Three hundred and eleven. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The provisions of section eighteen of Act Numbered Eighty-three, as amended by Acts Numbered One hundred and thirtythree and Five hundred and twenty-seven, and of section two of Act Numbered Three hundred and eleven, as hereafter amended in this Act, are hereby made applicable to all provinces now or hereafter organized under the general provisions of the Nueva Vizcayan Acts Numbered Three hundred and thirty-seven and Three hundred and eighty-seven and amendments thereto; and if the provincial treasurer of any province organized under the Nueva Vizcayan Acts Numbered Three hundred and thirty-seven and Three hundred and eighty-seven, and the amendments thereto, has taken official action upon an erroneous construction of law by which such sections herein made applicable to such province were deemed to be so applicable before the passage of this Act, such action is now ratified and confirmed, and the Auditor for the Philippine Archipelago is directed to audit the accounts of such provincial treasurer upon the basis of such ratification. SEC. 2. Section two of Act Numbered Three hundred and eleven is hereby amended by striking out the last sentence of said section and substituting therefor the following: "Such return shall be made upon certification of the amount due by the Auditor, by a settlement warrant, and shall be disposed of as provided by section eighteen of the Provincial Government Act as amended." 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 twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on its passage. [No. 740.] AN ACT to correct an error in Act Numbered Six hundred and fifty-five, entitled "An Act providing additional methods of enforcing the payment of the cedula Tax; repealing the provisions of existing law that no person shall be required to pay a cedula tax who pays as taxes on real estate or industrial taxes an amount in excess of one peso; and exempting certain real estate of small value from land tax." By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: Whereas, in Act Numbered Six hundred and fifty-five, entitled "An Act providing additional methods of enforcing the payment of the cedula tax; repealing the provisions of existing law that no person shall be required to pay a cedula tax who pays as taxes on real estate or industrial taxes an amount in excess of one peso; and exempting certain real estate of small value from land tax," section two recognizes section thirty-four of "The Provincial Government Act," as set out in section two of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-three, reading as follows: "SEC. 34. For the year nineteen hundred and two, and succeeding years, no person who shall pay to the province and municipality together, as taxes on real estate, or as an industrial tax, an amount in excess of one peso, shall be required to pay the cedula tax. The receipt given for the land tax shall contain the particulars required above for the cedula or registration tax, and shall be used for the same purpose of identification and to avoid disqualification, to testify, to execute an instrument, to vote or to hold office to have been in force and repeals the same; and Whereas said section thirty-four of the Provincial Government Act as set out in section two of Act Numbered One hundred and thirtythree had been amended in paragraph (ƒ) of section one of Act Numbered Three hundred and twenty so as to read as follows: "SEC. 34. For the year nineteen hundred and two and succeeding years no person who shall pay to the province and municipality together as taxes on real estate, or as an industrial tax, an amount in excess of one peso, shall be required to pay the cedula tax. But every person so exempted from the cedula tax shall be entitled to receive, and shall receive from the provincial treasurer, a cedula free of charge, to be used for the same purpose of identification and to avoid disqualification, to testify, to execute an instrument, to vote or to hold office. Cedulas so issued shall be in the same form as those issued in return for the payment of one peso, and there shall be printed across their face the words 'Issued Free""; and Whereas it was the intention of the Commission in Act Numbered Six hundred and fifty-five to repeal all provisions of law by which any person paying taxes on real estate or industrial taxes should thereby be exempted from payment of the cedula tax: Therefore, SECTION 1. Section two of said Act Numbered Six hundred and fifty-five is hereby repealed and there is substituted in lieu thereof the following: "SEC. 2. Paragraph (f) of section one of Act Numbered Three hundred and twenty, reading as follows: 'By amending section thirtyfour of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-three to read as follows: "SEC. 34. For the year nineteen hundred and two and succeeding years no person who shall pay to the province and municipality together as taxes on real estate, or as an industrial tax, an amount in excess of one peso, shall be required to pay the cedula tax. But every person so exempted from the cedula tax shall be entitled to receive, and shall receive from the provincial treasurer, a cedula free of charge, to be used for the same purpose of identification and to avoid disqualification, to testify, to execute an instrument, to vote or to hold office. Cedulas so issued shall be in the same form as those issued in return for the payment of one peso, and there shall be printed across their face the words "Issued Free" "is hereby repealed and stricken from said Act Numbered Three hundred and twenty, and hereafter any person paying taxes on real estate or industrial taxes in an amount in excess of one peso, shall not thereby be exempted from the payment of the cedula tax." |