[ Act No. 1575, December 14, 1906 ]
AN ACT SO AMENDING ACT NUMBERED ELEVEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT, ENTITLED "THE FOREST ACT," AS TO PROVIDE BUT ONE SCALE OF TAXES ON TIMBER FOR ALL PROVINCES.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. Section eleven of Act Numbered Seven hundred and forty-eight, entitled "The Forest Act," is hereby amended by striking out of said section the first three paragraphs thereof beginning with the words "For the purposes of this Act" and ending with the words "Samar, Surigao, and Tayabas."
Section 2. Section twelve of said Act is hereby amended in the following particulars:
(a) Paragraph three of section twelve of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "On all timber included in the first group, two pesos and fifty centavos."
(b) Paragraph four of section twelve of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "On all timber included in the second group, one peso and fifty centavos."
(c) Paragraph five of section twelve of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "On all timber included in the third group, one peso."'
(d) Paragraph six of section twelve of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "On all timber included in the fourth group and on all nonennmerated timber, fifty centavos: Provided, That the taxes imposed in this section on ebony and camagon shall be charged on said timbers when presented for measurement and appraisal with the sapwood still attached; and the number of cubic meters in each piece of timber so measured shall include the sapwood attached to the same, and when ebony or camagon timber from which the sapwood has been stripped is presented for measurement and appraisal there shall be assessed and collected the following sums:"
(e) Paragraph seven of section twelve of said Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "On each cubic meter of ebony, six pesos. On each cubic meter of camagon, four pesos and fifty centavos.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.1aшphi1
Section 4. This Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and seven.
Enacted, December 14, 1906.
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