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[ Act No. 562, December 18, 1902 ]

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY-FIVE, APPROPRIATING TWO MILLION DOLLARS, LOCAL CURRENCY, FOR EXPENSES IN CONNECTION WITH THE PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTION OF RICE.

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

Section 1. Section two of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An Act appropriating the sum of two million dollars, local currency, for expenses in connection with the purchase and distribution of rice to inhabitants of the Philippine Islands in provinces suffering from scarcity of Food and for other purposes," is hereby amended by striking out the last clause, beginning with the word "but" in the fifth line and ending with the word "duties" in the last line of said section.

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, December 18, 1902.

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