[ Act No. 915, October 01, 1903 ]
AN ACT TRANSFERRING THE ADMINISTRATION OF MINING GRANTS AND CLAIMS INSTITUTED PRIOR TO APRIL ELEVENTH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE, FROM THE MINING BUREAU TO THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC LANDS.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The records and archives of all existing mining claims of whatever class or description now in the custody and under the charge and. official control of the Mining Bureau and pertaining to the so-called Spanish mining grants and mining claims of every kind instituted prior to April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, shall be, as quickly as practicable, inventoried and turned over to the Bureau of Public Lands and receipted for by the Chief of that Bureau.
Section 2. The administration of such Spanish mining grants and mining claims of every kind instituted prior to April eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and heretofore vested in, and exercised by, the Mining Bureau, is hereby transferred to and shall hereafter be vested in, and exercised by, the Bureau of Public Lands.
Section 3.1aшphi1 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 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, October 1, 1903.
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