[ Act No. 1373, July 11, 1905 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND ACT NUMBERED SIX HUNDRED AND NINETEEN, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROMOTE GOOD ORDER AND DISCIPLINE IN THE PHILIPPINES CONSTABULARY.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Act Numbered Six hundred and nineteen, entitled "An Act to promote good order and discipline in the Philippines Constabulary," is hereby amended by striking out section" nine and substituting in lieu thereof the following:
"Section 91aшphi1. It shall be the duty of all Constabulary officers having knowledge of the facts to report to the prosecuting attorney or provincial fiscal the name of any member of the Constabulary force guilty of any of the offenses mentioned in the preceding sections, together with the names of the witnesses against them, and it shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney or provincial fiscal, if upon investigation of the facts an offense appears to have been committed, to prosecute the same before the Court of First Instance as in other criminal cases: and if the prosecuting attorney or provincial fiscal has information from any other source of the commission of any of the offenses mentioned in sections one, two, and three hereof he shall proceed against the offenders as in other criminal cases."
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 fake effect on its passage.
Enacted, July 11, 1905.
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