[ Act No. 225, September 16, 1901 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION NINETY-NINE OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE.

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

Section 1. Section ninety-nine of the Municipal Code is hereby a mended by adding thereto the following:

"In case the Military Governor shall not designate a person to act as provincial treasurer, in accordance with the foregoing, then the functions required to be performed by the provincial treasurer in respect to the municipality, its officers, and the assessment and collection of taxes therein in this Code shall be performed by the collector of internal revenue of the district in which the municipality as organized under the Code shall be situate."

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.1aшphi1

Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, September 6, 1901.


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