[ Act No. 1169, May 31, 1904 ]
AN ACT SO AMENDING ACT NUMBERED SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINE AS TO PROHIBIT THE TRAFFIC IN INTOXICATING LIQUORS WITHIN A CERTAIN DISTANCE OF LAND USED BY THE UNITED STATES FOR MILITARY PURPOSES AT CALBAYOG, IN THE PROVINCE OF SAMAR, AND ALSO TO PERMIT THE SALE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS WITHIN A CIRCUMSCRIBED AREA IN THE TOWN OF LUCENA, PROVINCE OF TAYABAS.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section one of Act Numbered Seven hundred and nine, entitled "An Act prohibiting the traffic in intoxicating liquors within certain distances of land used by the United States of military purposes and at certain camps therein named," is hereby amended by inserting after the words "for military purposes at Santa Mesa in the city of Manila," and before the words "Provided, however," the following words: "or within a distance" of three-quarters of a mile of land used by the United States for military purposes near the town of Calbayog, in the Province of Samar.1aшphi1"
Section 2. Section one of said Act Numbered Seven hundred and nine is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: "and land within a circle with a radius of seven hundred yards with the center at the middle of the road immediately in front of the parish church at Lucena, in the Province of Tayabas."
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.
Section 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, May 31, 1904.
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