[ Acts No. 1528, August 22, 1906 ]
AN ACT AMENDING SECTION TWO HUNDRED AND ONE OF ACT NUMBERED THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE, KNOWN AS THE PHILIPPINE CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATIVE ACT, IN SUCH MANNER AS TO PERMIT SALVAGE GEAR TO BE RE-IMPORTED WITHOUT THE PAYMENT OF DUTY.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section two hundred and one of Act Numbered Three hundred and fifty-five is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 201. Dutiable merchandise imported and afterwards exported, although it may have paid duty on the first importation, is liable to duty on every subsequent importation into the Philippine Islands; but this section shall not apply to wearing apparel and personal effects accompanying a passenger who took them outside the Philippine Islands and brought them back in use, nor to salvage gear and salvage apparatus, held in the Philippine Islands and exported therefrom for temporary use abroad, provided that the same are properly identified to the satisfaction of the Collector of Customs."
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, August 22,1906.
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