[ Act No. 1131, April 28, 1904 ]
AN ACT MAKING THE GOVERNOR OF THE PROVINCE OF MINDORO A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE WITH JURISDICTION THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE OF THAT PROVINCE.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The governor of the Province of Mindoro is hereby made ex officio justice of the peace with authority to perform all the duties of a justice of the peace throughout the whole of the Province of Mindoro. His jurisdiction as justice of the peace shall be concurrent in every municipality and in every part of said province with that of the proper justice of the peace of the municipality. The fees that would accrue to a justice of the peace shall, in all cases where the provincial governor acts as justice of the peace, be covered into the treasury of the province for the general purposes of the province.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-sixth, nineteen hundred.
Section 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, April 28, 1904.
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