[ Act No. 1095, March 29, 1904 ]
AN ACT SO AMENDING ACT NUMBERED EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE AS TO PERMIT THE FREE ENTRY OF ORDNANCE AND ORDNANCE STORES IMPORTED BY THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section two of Act Numbered Eight hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An Act providing for the collection of duties on goods, wares, and merchandise imported into the Islands for use of the Insular, provincial, or municipal governments," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:
“And provided further, That this Act shall not effect the free entry of ordnance and ordnance stores that have been or shall be purchased by the Government."
Section 2. This Act shall be retroactive so far as to apply to all existing contracts for the purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores, and to all ordnance and ordnance stores which have not been paid for by the Philippines Constabulary.
Section 3. 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 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, March 29, 1904.
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