[ Act No. 1953, May 20, 1909 ]
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE FREE TRANSPORTATION, UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS, OF CERTAIN ARTICLES TO THE LEPERS KEPT AT THE CULION LEPER COLONY.
By authority of the United Slates, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:
Section 1. The family of any leper at present confined in the Culion leper colony is hereby authorized to deliver to the district health officer of each province, once in three months, any-packages or pan vis containing food, clothing, tobacco, letters, pictures and generally all soils of documents or papers, and nothing else, to be pent free of all expense to the leper member of said family for his personal use whenever the total gross weight of each such shipment shall not exceed one hundred pounds.
Section 2. The district health officer of each province shall receive the articles mentioned in the next preceding section; shall fix, by means of notices in English, Spanish, and the local dialect, posted at the door of every municipal building in the province, the date or dates for the receipt of such articles at the provincial capital, and the said dates coincide as far as possible with the sailing inter-island mail steamers; shall issue receipts for the delivered to him and shall send same without delay to by the most practicable transportation route.
Section 3.1aшphi1 For the purposes of this Act the parents, sisters, sons, and daughters shall be considered the family of a leaper, and it shall be the duty of the district health officer to ascertain and assure himself such relationship in every instance before carrying out the provisions of this Act.
Section 4. all expenditures arising under this Act shall be paid out of the contingent funds appropriated for the Bureau of Health in the general appropriation Act.
Section 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, May 20, 1909.
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