[ Act No. 1610, March 14, 1907 ]
AN ACT TO PRESCRIBE PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO CARRY PROPER OFFICERS ON PHILIPPINE VESSELS.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1. The Insular Collector of Customs with the prior approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice, shall prescribe the number and class of marine officers to lie carried on vessels of the Philippine Islands, and in case any vessel shall navigate without its full complement of duly licensed officers as by the said Insular Collector prescribed, the offending vessel may be fined not more than one hundred pesos for each offense, but shall not be so fined for such offense oftener than once in thirty days.
Section 2. Fines under the foregoing section shall be collected as prescribed in sections three hundred and thirteen, three hundred and thirteen (a), and three hundred and thirteen (b) of Act Numbered Three hundred and fifty-five, as amended by Act Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-four and Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and five, and it shall be a good defense to prove that the vessel did so navigate only on account of causes beyond the control of the master, agents, and owners.
Such fine when incurred shall be in addition to any penalty which may be incurred through the employment of aliens as officers, as already prescribed by law.ℒαwρhi৷
Section 3. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the panic 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 its passage.
Enacted, March 14, 1907.
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