[ Act No. 1184, June 09, 1904 ]
AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE COURT VACATION FOR THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE FOR THE MOUNTAIN JUDICIAL DISTRICT SHALL BE DURING THE MONTHS OF AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, AND CHANGING THE TIMES AT WHICH COURTS OF FIRST INSTANCE SHALL BE HELD IN THAT DISTRICT.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section one of Act Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-seven, relating to the organization of courts and the times and places for holding sessions thereof, is hereby amended by adding at the end of that portion-of section one entitled "Sec. 5. Court vacation and judicial leaves of absence," the following words: "Provided, however, That the court vacation for the Mountain Judicial District shall be during the months of August and September of each year."
Section 2. That portion of section seven of said Act Numbered night hundred and sixty-seven which provides for the times and places for holding Courts of First Instance in the Mountain Judicial District, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"MOUNTAIN DISTINCT.
"At Baguio, in and for the Province of Benguet, commencing on the first Tuesdays of December and April of each year.
"At Bayombong, in and for the .Province of Nueva Vizcaya, commencing on the first Tuesdays of January and May of each year.
"At Cervantes, in and for the .Province of Lepanto-Bontoc, commencing on the first Tuesdays of February and June of each year.1aшphi1"
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 the first day of August, nineteen hundred and four.
Enacted, June 9, 1904.
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