[ Act No. 1132, April 28, 1904 ]
AN ACT SO AMENDING ACT NUMBERED FIVE HUNDRED AND NINETY AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE EXPENSES OF PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS FOR CRIMINAL OFFENSES BY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, WHEN HELD AT THE CAPITAL OF THE PROVINCE, ALTHOUGH THE OFFENSES WERE COMMITTED IN OTHER MUNICIPALITIES, SHALL BE PAID BY THE MUNICIPALITIES IN WHICH THE OFFENSES WERE COMMITTED.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section one of Act Numbered Five hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act so an lending Act Numbered One hundred and ninety-four, relating to preliminary investigations of criminal offenses by justices of the peace, and portions oil General Orders, Numbered Fifty-eight, as to authorize justices of the peace in the capitals of provinces to hold preliminary investigations in regard to offenses alleged to have been committed in any portion oil the province," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: "Provided, however, That the expense of such preliminary investigation shall be paid by the municipality in which, the offense was committed, in the same manner as though the preliminary investigation had been conducted in such municipality.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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