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[ Act No. 279, October 25, 1901 ]

AN ACT PRESCRIBING THE METHOD OF EXECUTING LEASES OF REAL ESTATE TO OR BY THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT.

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

Section 1. All leases of houses or other real estate or other contracts for the use and occupancy of property made to or by the Insular Government or any Department or Bureau thereof shall be executed for and in behalf of the Insular Government by the Civil 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.1aшphi1

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

Enacted, October 25, 1901.

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