[ Act No. 2537, November 06, 1915 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREE, BY PROHIBITING THE PAYMENT OF THE WAGES OF A LABORER BY MEANS OF TOKENS OR OBJECTS OTHER THAN LEGAL TENDER CURRENCY OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
Section 1.(awÞhi( Section one of Act Numbered Twenty-one hundred and ninety-three, entitled "An Act prohibiting, in the territory inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes the forcing, compelling, or obliging of any laborer or other employee to purchase merchandise, commodities, or personal property under certain conditions," is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation engaged in any business or enterprise in the Philippine Islands in any manner to force, compel, or oblige any laborer or other employee employed by him to purchase merchandise, commodities, or personal property of any kind or nature from such person, firm, or corporation, or from any other person, firm, or corporation, or pay or cause to in be paid the wages due a laborer or employee by means of tokens or objects other than legal tender currency of the Philippine Islands, unless payment in objects, other than tokens and their similars, be expressly requested by the laborer or employee."
Section. 2. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, November 6, 1915.
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