[ Act No. 109, March 28, 1901 ]
AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-SIX, ENTITLED "AN ACT REGULATING THE SYSTEM OF KEEPING ACCOUNTS OF PUBLIC REVENUES AND THE RETURN THEREOF, AND REPEALING CERTAIN ORDERS AND CIRCULARS RELATING TO THOSE SUBJECTS," AND MODIFYING ITS APPLICATION IN THE JOLO ARCHIPELAGO.
By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section two of Act Numbered Thirty-six, entitled "An Act regulating the system of keeping accounts of public revenues and the return thereof, and repealing certain orders and circulars relating to those subjects," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: "Provided, nevertheless, That the collector of the port of Job and all other officers or agents authorized to receive money, arising from the revenues of the Islands, of whatsoever kind, may pay the full amounts received and collected by them respectively, to the Treasurer of the Islands in money of the United States, irrespective of the kinds of money in which the payments were received and collected, and for the purpose of such payments to the Treasurer of the Islands all insular moneys received may be reduced to money of the United States at the ratio of two dollars of insular currency for one dollar of money of the United States until another ratio shall be established for that purpose by order of the Military Governor."
Section 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 and one.1aшphi1
Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, March 28, 1901.
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