Act - 1908

Acts - 1908

     
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Acts No. 1879
October 10, 1908
An Act Amending Act Numbered Seven Hundred and Eighty-Seven, Entitled "An Act Providing for the Organization and Government of the Moro Province," as Amended, and Providing that the Property Accountability and the Power to Purchase Merchandise and Supplies for Use of the Provincial and District Governments, Courts of First Instance, and So Forth, Heretofore By Law Devolving Upon the Engineer of the Moro Province Shall Be Assumed and Exercised By the Treasurer of the Moro Province, and for Other Purposes.
Acts No. 1878
August 22, 1908
An Act Making Appropriations Aggregating thirty thousand One Hundred Pesos for Certain Public Works and Permanent Improvements in the Mountain Province and the Town Site of Baguio, Province of Benguet.
Acts No. 1877
August 21, 1908
An Act Making Appropriations for Sundry Expenses of the, Provincial Governments of Agusan, Benguet, Lepanto-Bontoe, Nueva VIzcaya, and the Mountain Province, for the Fiscal Year Ending June thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Nine.
Acts No. 1876
August 18, 1908
An Act Providing for the Establishment of a Province to Be Known as the Mountain Province, for the Establishment of a Prison At Bontoc for Non-Christian Criminals, Changing the Boundaries of the Province of Nueva VIzcaya, Amending Act Numbered Eight Hundred and Sixty-Seven, as Amended, By Changing the Boundaries of the Mountain Judicial District and the Times and Places of Holding Courts of First Instance in the Said District, Providing for Participation By the Mountain Province in the Distribution of Internal-Revenue Collections, and Repealing All Acts or Parts of Acts Inconsistent With this Act.
Acts No. 1875
June 19, 1908
An Act Amending Act Numbered Four Hundred and Ninety-Six, Entitled "the Land Registration Act," and Other Acts Relating thereto, to Give Greater Facilities for Obtaining Titles and the Registration of Property in the Philippine Islands, Appropriating the Sum of Two Hundred and Five thousand Pesos for the Judiciary and One Hundred and Fifty thousand Pesos for the Bureau of Lands to Meet the Additional Expenses Involved, and for Other Purposes.
Acts No. 1874
June 19, 1908
An Act to Extend and Regulate the Responsibility of Employers for Personal Injuries and Deaths Suffered By their Employees While At Work.
Acts No. 1873
June 19, 1908
An Act Making Appropriations for Sundry Expenses of the Amending Insular Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June thirtieth, Nine- Teen Hundred and Nine, and Other Designated Periods.
Acts No. 1872
June 19, 1908
An Act Amending Act Numbered Fourteen Hundred and Seven, Entitled "the Reorganization Act," By Providing for the Free Cutting and Use of Certain First-Group Timbers in Buildings of strong Materials.
Acts No. 1871
June 19, 1908
An Act Making Available for Expenditure During the Fiscal Year Nineteen Hundred and Nine and thereafter, the Balance Remaining From Funds Appropriated By Act Numbered Sixteen Hundred and thirty-Two, for Examinations for Scholarships in the Philippine Medical School.
Acts No. 1870
June 18, 1908
An Act for the Purpose of Founding a University for the Philippine Islands, Giving It Corporate Existence, Providing for a Board of Regents, Defining the Board'S Responsibilities and Duties, Providing Higher and Professional Instruction, and for Other Purposes.
Acts No. 1869
June 18, 1908
An Act to Amend the Charter of the City of Manila, Abolishing the Advisory Board and Increasing the Municipal Board By Adding thereto Two Elective Members.
Acts No. 1868
June 18, 1908
An Act Creating the Bureau of Labor, Under the Department of Commerce and Police.
Acts No. 1867
June 18, 1908
An Act Providing for Certain Reforms in the Organization of the Philippines Constabulary.
Acts No. 1866
June 18, 1908
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Seventy-Five thousand Pesos for Salaries of Teachers in Barrio Schools When Established Under Certain Conditions.
Acts No. 1865
June 18, 1908
An Act Creating a Government Agricultural Bank of the Philippine Islands and Appropriating for Funds thereof the Sum of One Million Pesos.
Acts No. 1864
June 18, 1908
An Act Amending Chapter One of Act Numbered Nine Hundred and Twenty-Six By Providing that Payment .Of Homestead Entry Fees May Be Made in Installments, and By Limiting the Residence Required By Said Chapter to the Last Two Years Immediately Preceding the Date of Final Proof.
Acts No. 1863
June 16, 1908
An Act Providing that the Provinces of Palawan and Mindoro Shall Have their Pro Rata Share of the Special Fund of Ten Per Centum of Internal-Revenue Collections, Created By Act Numbered Sixteen Hundred and Ninety-Five, and Payable to the Road and Bridge Fund of Certain Provinces.
Acts No. 1862
June 16, 1908
An Act Amending Section Fourteen of Act Numbered Sixteen Hundred and Twenty-Seven.
Acts No. 1861
June 16, 1908
An Act Amending Sections Seventy-Four and One Hundred and Seven of Act Numbered Eleven Hundred and Eighty-Nine, as Amended.
Acts No. 1860
June 15, 1908
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Seventy-Five thousand Pesos From the Insular Treasury for the Entertainment of the Officers and Men of the American Fleet on the Occasion of Its Proposed VIsit to the Philippine Islands, and Authorizing the City of Manila to Appropriate the Sum of Twenty-Five thousand Pesos for the Same Purpose.
Acts No. 1859
June 13, 1908
An Act to Promote the Efficiency of the Executive Offices of the Government By Empowering the Governor-General to Transfer Bureaus From the Jurisdiction of One Executive Department to Another.
Acts No. 1858
June 13, 1908
An Act Amending Section Forty of Act Numbered Eighty-Two, Known as the Municipal Code.
Acts No. 1857
June 13, 1908
An Act Authorizing the Creation of Special Classes of Superior Instruction for Municipal Teachers and Appropriating the Sum of Fifty thousand Pesos for Such Purpose.
Acts No. 1856
June 13, 1908
An Act Authorizing the Construction of a Pantheon of Illustrious Filipinos, and Providing for the Appointment of a Committee to Take Charge of the Matter.
Acts No. 1855
June 13, 1908
An Act Appropriating the Sum of One Hundred and Fifty thousand Pesos for the Purchase and Preparation of Land for Cattle Quarantine stations in the Cities of Manila, Cebu, and Iloilo, and Making Provision for the Reimbursement of the Insular Treasury for the Said Amount With the Proceeds of the Sale of the Singalong Experimental station, Malate. Manila.
Acts No. 1854
June 13, 1908
An Act to Authorize the Appropriation, of Seven Hundred and Fifty thousand Pesos Annually for the Promotion, Establishment, and Maintenance of Irrigation Systems in the Philippine Islands.
Acts No. 1853
June 13, 1908
An Act Providing that the Provinces of Benguet, Lepanto-Bontoc, Nueva VIzcaya, and Agusan Shall Have their Pro Rata Share of the Special Fund of Ten Per Centum of Internal-Revenue Collections Created By Act Numbered Sixteen Hundred and Ninety-Five and Payable to the Road and Bridge Fund of Certain Provinces.
Acts No. 1852
June 11, 1908
An Act Revalidating Certain Declarations of Real Property for Assessment Purposes Heretofore Made in Accordance With the Provisions of Act Numbered Fourteen Hundred and Fifty-Five, as Amended.
Acts No. 1851
June 09, 1908
An Act to Provide for the Protection of Rights of Property in Telegraphic Messages, and to Prevent the Forging or Improper Disclosure of Telegrams.
Acts No. 1850
June 04, 1908
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Sixty-Five thousand Pesos and Making Available the Unexpended Balances of Funds Heretofore Appropriated for the Philippine Assembly, to Provide or the Expense of a Special Session of the Philippine Assembly.
Acts No. 1849
June 03, 1908
An Act Providing for the Establishment of a Public Library to Be Known as "the Philippine Public Library," Making Suitable Appropriations therefor, and for Other Purposes.
Acts No. 1848
June 03, 1908
An Act Making Certain Authorizations .Without Appropriation for Sundry Expenses of the Insular Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Eight, and for Other stated Purposes.
Acts No. 1847
June 03, 1908
An Act Amending Sections Nine and Eleven of Act Numbered Eleven Hundred and Twenty, Entitled "the Friar Lands Act," Providing for the Manner of Sale of Unoccupied Lands and the Time Within Which Deferred Payments By Purchasers of Friar Lands May Be Made.
Acts No. 1846
June 02, 1908
An Act to Amend Section Eighteen,, Paragraph Two of Subsection of Act Numbered Eighty-Two, Known as the "Municipal Code, as Amended By Act Numbered Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine.
Acts No. 1845
June 01, 1908
An Act to Increase the Power of the Provinces of Palawan and Mindoro in the Matter of Appropriation of Provincial Funds.
Acts No. 1844
June 01, 1908
An Act to Amend Section three Hundred and One of Act Numbered three Hundred and Fifty-Five of the Philippine Commission, Known as "An Act to Constitute the Customs Service of the Philippine Archipelago and to Provide for the Administration thereof," as Amended, in Such Manner as to Prohibit the Importation of Merchandise Into Any Port in the Philippine Islands, Other than An Entry Port, or in Vessels of Less than thirty Tons Burden.
Acts No. 1843
June 01, 1908
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Nineteen, Entitled "An Act to Provide for Inspecting and Sealing Weights and Measures and to Regulate their Use," So as to Authorize the Continued Use of the English System of Weights and Measures in the Purchase and Sale of Manufactured Lumber.
Acts No. 1842
May 30, 1908
An Act to Provide for the Granting of a Franchise to Construct, Maintain, and Operate Telephone and Telegraph Systems, and to Carry on Other Electrical Transmission Business in and Between the Provinces and Municipalities of the Island of Panay.
Acts No. 1841
May 30, 1908
An Act to Provide for the Construction of the Capitol of the Philippine Islands, and to Create a Committee to Prepare Plans therefor.
Acts No. 1840
May 30, 1908
An Act Designating the Insular Treasury as Official Depository for Subscriptions to the Philippines Memorial in Honor of Deceased United states Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines Who Succumbed in the Philippine Islands, and Providing for the Collection and Disbursement of Said Funds.
Acts No. 1839
May 29, 1908
An Act Amending Section three of Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Forty-Five, Entitled "An Act to Amend the Provincial Government Act, Numbered Eighty-three, By Reorganizing the Provincial Boards, and By Abolishing the Position of Provincial Secretary, and for Other Purposes," By Making Certain Provisions Regarding the Compensation Which Shall Be Received By the third Member When Acting- as a Substitute for the Provincial Governor.
Acts No. 1838
May 29, 1908
An Act Granting a Prize of Fifteen thousand Pesos to the Inventor of An Incombustible Roof to Substitute Nipa, and Creating a Technical Board to Pass Upon the Conditions of the Invention.
Acts No. 1837
May 29, 1908
An Act Making Appropriations for Certain Public Works and Permanent Improvements, and for Other Purposes.
Acts No. 1836
May 27, 1908
An Act Providing for the Expenditure' of Four thousand Pesos for Traveling Expenses and Subsistence of Two Delegates From the Philippine Islands to the International Congress on Tuberculosis to Be Held At Washington, District of Columbia, From September Twenty-Ninth to October Twelfth, Nineteen Hundred and Eight.
Acts No. 1835
May 21, 1908
An Act to Grant to the Insular Coal Company, Incorporated, a Franchise to Construct, Maintain, and Operate a Railway Line From the Shore Line At the Port of Danao to the Coal District of Camansi, Province of Cebu.
Acts No. 1834
May 21, 1908
An Act to Amend Sections Seven, Nine, and One Hundred and thirty of Act Numbered Fourteen Hundred and Fifty-Nine, Known as "the Corporation Law."
Acts No. 1833
May 21, 1908
An Act to Amend Act Numbered One Hundred and thirty-One, Amending Entitled "An Act Providing for the Establishment of a Weather Bureau for the Philippine Islands and Appropriating Eight thousand and Sixty-Six Dollars and Fifty Cents, in Money of the "United states, for the Purchase of Meteorological Instruments and Apparatus and the Installation of the Same."
Acts No. 1832
May 21, 1908
An Act Abolishing the Special Tax of One Per Centum on the Assessed Value of Undeclared Property.
Acts No. 1831
May 21, 1908
An Act Declaring the Funds Appropriated for Current Expenses of the Assembly Available for Certain Expenses of the Assembly that Are Not Specified in the Current Appropriation Bill.
Acts No. 1830
May 21, 1908
An Act Amending Section Five of Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Eighty-Two, Entitled "the Election Law," in Certain Particulars.
Acts No. 1829
May 21, 1908
An Act Providing for Popular Civico-Educational Lectures in the Municipalities and Principally in the Barrios of the Philippine Islands.
Acts No. 1828
May 21, 1908
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Sixteen Hundred and Seventy-Nine, Entitled "An Act Making Appropriations for Sundry Expenses of the Insular Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Eight, and Other Designated Periods," By Making Provisions for the Carrying Into Effect of the Act of Congress Approved May Eleventh, Nineteen Hundred and Eight.
Acts No. 1827
May 21, 1908
An Act Appropriating the Sum of One Hundred thousand Pesos, Philippine Currency, to Be Expended in the Discretion of the Bureau of Agriculture Under the Supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, for the Purpose of Combating and Exterminating Cattle Diseases in the Islands.
Acts No. 1826
May 20, 1908
An Act to Provide for the Granting of a Franchise to Construct, Maintain, and Operate Telephone and Telegraph Systems, and to Carry on Other Electrical Transmission Business in and Between the Provinces of Albay and Ambos Camarines and in and Between the Municipalities thereof.
Acts No. 1825
May 18, 1908
An Act to Further Amend Section Eleven of Act Numbered Six Hundred and Nineteen, in Order to Avoid the Long Delays that Are Frequently Attendant Upon Summary Court Trials in the Constabulary.
Acts No. 1824
May 18, 1908
An Act to Fix the Time for Making Annual Reports By the Directors of Bureaus and Heads of Offices of the Insular Government, Provincial Governors, and the Municipal Board of the City of Manila, and for Other Purposes.
Acts No. 1823
May 15, 1908
An Act Creating the Entry Port of Davao.
Acts No. 1822
May 15, 1908
An Act to Amend the Special Provincial Government Act, By Increasing the Powers of the Provinces of Benguet, Lepanto-Bontoc, Nueva VIzcaya, and Agusan in the Matter of Appropriation of Provincial Funds.
Acts No. 1821
May 13, 1908
An Act to Empower the Provincial Boards of the Provinces that Have Adopted the Double Cedula Tax to Postpone the Period for the Payment Without Penalty of the Cedula Tax for the Year Nineteen Hundred and Eight to June thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Eight, and Empowering the Provincial Boards of All Provinces, With the Exception of Cagayan and Isabela, to Postpone the Payment Without Penalty of the Land Tax for the Year Nineteen Hundred and Eight to September thirtieth of Said Year.
Acts No. 1820
May 11, 1908
An Act Providing for the Expenditure of Seventeen thousand Dollars United states Currency, for Salary and Traveling Expenses of a Delegate From the Philippine Islands and Subordinate Personnel to Attend the International Navigation Conference to Be Held From the Twenty-Eighth of May, Nineteen Hundred and Eight, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and for Other Purposes.
Acts No. 1819
April 30, 1908
An Act Extending to December thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and Eight, the Time Within Which Real Property Which Has Been Forfeited to Municipalities for Nonpayment of Taxes May Be Redeemed.
Acts No. 1818
April 30, 1908
An Act Amending Act Numbered three Hundred and Forty-Five Entitled "An Act Designating the Days Which Shall Be Observed as Public Holidays in the Philippine Islands," as Amended, Among Others By Act Numbered Sixteen Hundred and Seventy-One, So as to Make the First Day of May An Official Holiday and to Empower the Governor-General to Make Any Working Day An Official Holiday, Under Certain Conditions.
Acts No. 1817
April 03, 1908
An Act to Relieve Sheriffs in Provinces Inhabited By Moros and Other Non-Christian Tribes From the Provisions of Section Twenty-three of Act Numbered One Hundred and thirty-Six, and Providing for the Giving of Bonds By the Sheriffs of Such Provinces.
Acts No. 1816
March 31, 1908
An Act to Amend Act Numbered thirteen Hundred and Ninety-Six, Entitled "the Special Provincial Government Act," So as to . Authorize Courts of Justices of the Peace in the Provinces of Benguet, Lepanto-Bontoc, Nueva VIzcaya, and Agusan to Try VIolations of Township Ordinances and to Provide that the Fees of Justices of the Peace in Such Cases Shall Be Payable From Township Funds.
Acts No. 1815
March 28, 1908
An Act Providing for the Cancellation, Under Certain Conditions, of the Unpaid Balances Remaining on Loans Made to Certain Provincial and Municipal Governments Prior to the Fifteenth of October, Nineteen Hundred and Seven, Out of the General Funds of the Insular Treasury and of the United states Congressional Relief Fund.
Acts No. 1814
March 24, 1908
An Act to Amend Section One Hundred and thirty-Six of Act Numbered three Hundred and Fifty-Five, Known as the Philippine Customs Administrative Act, as Amended By Act Numbered thirteen Hundred and Forty-One, and Authorizing the Insular Collector of Customs, With the Approval of the Secretary of Finance and Justice, to Regulate the Manifesting of Coastwise Cargoes in Certain Particulars.
Acts No. 1813
March 24, 1908
An Act Authorizing the Governor-General to Convey, Under Certain Conditions and Restrictions, Insular Property to Provinces. . and Municipalities of the Philippine Islands, to Be Used for Public-School Purposes.
Acts No. 1812
March 18, 1908
An Act Providing for the Filing With the Division of Archives, Patents, Copyrights, and Trade-Marks of the Executive Bureau of the Contracts of Mortgage Executed By the Manila Railroad Company as Security for the Issuance of Bonds and Other Obligations, Creating and Fixing Upon the Property Covered By Said Instruments a Lien At and From the Time of Filing the Same, and Exempting Said Instruments From the Payment of stamp Taxes, and for Other Purposes.
Acts No. 1811
February 24, 1908
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-three, Entitled "An Act to Encourage Economy and Saving Among the People of the Philippine Islands, and to that End to Provide for the Establishment of Postal Savings Banks and their Administration through the Organization of a Postal Savings Bank Division in the Bureau of Posts, and for Other Purposes,'' By Making Provision for Deposits Made Under Act Numbered Seventeen Hundred and Eighty.
Act No. 1810
February 18, 1908
An Act Adding to the First Paragraph of Section Four of Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Eighty-Two Certain Provisions for Cases of Void Elections of Provincial Officers and of the Death of the Same.
Act No. 1809
February 11, 1908
An Act Appropriating the Sum of One Hundred thousand Pesos From Insular Funds for the Relief of Sufferers From Public Calamities.
Act No. 1808
February 11, 1908
An Act to Empower the Governor-General to Suspend Within the Moro Province Act Numbered Seventeen Hundred and Eighty, Entitled "An Act to Regulate the Importation, Acquisition, Possession, Use, and Transfer of Firearms, and to Prohibit the Possession of Same Except in Compliance With the Provisions of this Act."
Act No. 1807
February 01, 1908
An Act Prohibiting the Holding of Horse Races in the City of Manila on February Second, Nineteen Hundred and Eight, Designating Another Date therefor, and for Other Purposes.
Acts No. 1806
January 30, 1908
An Act to Amend Act Numbered three Hundred and Fifty-Five, Entitled "An Act to Constitute the Customs Service of the Philippine Archipelago and to Provide for the Administration thereof," as Amended, By Providing that Merchandise in Bond May Be Withdrawn for Delivery on Board Vessels of the United states and Foreign Vessels.
Acts No. 1805
January 30, 1908
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Ten thousand Pesos From Insular Funds, and Five thousand Pesos From the Funds of the City of Manila, for the Purpose of Aiding the Carnival Which Is to Be Held in the City of Manila in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Eight.
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