[ Act No. 1091, March 22, 1904 ]
AN ACT AMENDING SECTION FOUR OF ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE, ENTITLED "AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNMENT OF AN INSULAR CONSTABULARY AND FOR THE INSPECTION OF THE MUNICIPAL POLICE," AS AMENDED, BY PROVIDING THAT WHEN A MEMBER OF THE PHILIPPINES CONSTABULARY HAS BEEN CONVICTED AND SENTENCED BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION, OTHER THAN A CONSTABULARY SUMMARY COURT, THE CHIEF OF CONSTABULARY MAY ORDER HIS DISHONORABLE DISCHARGE AND THE FORFEITURE OF ALL PAY AND ALLOWANCES DUE OR TO BECOME DUE.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section four of Act Numbered One hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An Act providing for the organization and government of an Insular Constabulary, and for the inspection of the municipal police," as amended, is hereby further amended by substituting a semicolon for the period after the words "United States" in the twenty-fourth line of said section, and inserting after said semicolon the following words: "and when a member of the Philippines Constabulary has been convicted and sentenced by a court of competent jurisdiction, other than a Constabulary summary court, the Chief of Constabulary may order his dishonorable discharge and the forfeiture of all pay and allowances due or to become due;" so that said complete sentence in said section shall read as follows: "The Insular Chief is also given authority to suspend and, after clue hearing, to remove, any provincial inspector or other member of the Insular Constabulary for inefficiency, misconduct, or disloyalty to the United States and when a member of the Philippines Constabulary has been convicted and sentenced by a court of competent jurisdiction, other than a Constabulary summary court, the Chief of Constabulary may order his dishonorable discharge and the forfeiture of all pay and allowances due or to become due.1aшphi1"
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-nineteen hundred.
Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, March 22, 1904.
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