[ Act No. 1324, April 14, 1905 ]

AN ACT AMENDING SECTION FORTY-THREE OF ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-THREE SO AS TO REGULATE THE CHARGES TO BE MADE BY THE SHERIFF OF THE CITY OF MANILA FOR THE SERVICE OF CIVIL PROCESS ISSUING FROM AND RETURNABLE TO A COURT OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF MANILA.

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

Section 1. Section forty-three of Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of Manila is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: "Provided, however, That whenever civil process shall be issued from, and returnable to, a court outside of the city of Manila, service whereof must be made in the city of Manila," the traveling fees to be charged for such service shall be two pesos, and no more, to be paid to the city assessor and collector as before provided. The officer transmitting the same to the sheriff of the city of Manila shall charge and receive no traveling fees for such service in the city of Manila or for the return of the process to the court when it issued."

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 14, 1905.


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