[ Act No. 530, November 24, 1902 ]
AN ACT DEFINING THE JURISDICTION OF THE CIVIL AND OF THE MILITARY AUTHORITIES OVER LANDS RESERVED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR MILITARY PURPOSES.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. No licenses shall be granted for the sale of or dealing in any intoxicating liquors on any public land reserved by the President of the United States for military purposes in the Philippine Islands.
Section 2. The military authorities shall have the right to reject any intruder or trespasser on any public lands reserved by the President for military purposes in the Philippine Islands, and to suppress open broaches of the peace and abate nuisances thereon.
Section 3. No branch of the Civil Government in force on or over any public lands reserved by the President for military purposes, and an civilian residents thereon, shall interfere with military administration or the use of such lands for military purposes.1aшphi1
Section 4. The personal property of persons employed in the military service of the United States in the Philippine Islands and used by them incident to said service shall be exempt from all taxation under the laws in force in said Islands.
Section 5. No mining claims shall be located by any person on any public lands reserved by the President for military purposes in the Philippine Islands.
Section 6. Every person who unlawfully cuts, or aids, or is employed in unlawfully cutting, or wantonly destroys, or procures to be wantonly destroyed, any timber standing upon lands of the United States, which in pursuance of law may be reserved or purchased for military purposes in the Philippine Islands, or removes any other public property, shall, upon conviction, be fined for each offense a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding twelve months, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Section 7. No arrest of any officer, soldier, or civilian employee, in the military service of the United States on any military reservation, camp, or barracks, shall be made except on warrant in due form in writing and served upon the commanding officer thereof.
Section 8. All laws or parts of laws in force in the Philippine Islands not inconsistent with military use of any public lands reserved by the President for military purposes shall be in full force and effect over said lands.
Section 9. 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.
Section 10. This Act shall take effort on its passage.
Enacted, November 24, 1902.
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