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[ Act No. 1098, April 04, 1904 ]

AN ACT CONFERRING CONCURRENT JURISDICTION UPON COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE FOR THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICTS OVER CAUSES ARISING WITHIN THE DISTRICT OF LANAO, MORO PROVINCE,

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

Section 1. Concurrent jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Courts of First Instance for the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Judicial Districts over causes arising within the district of Lanao in the Moro Province, anything in Act Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-seven to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, however, That the court first acquiring jurisdiction over any cause shall have exclusive jurisdiction thereof.

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, April 4, 1904.

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