Acts - 1916

   
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Act No. 2673
December 29, 1916
An Act Appropriating Funds for Current Expenses of the Department of Mindanao and Sulu for the Fiscal Year Ending December thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2672
December 29, 1916
An Act Appropriating Funds for Sundry Expenses of the Philippine Government for the Fiscal Year Ending December thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2670
December 14, 1916
An Act Providing for the Transfer of the Unexpended Balances of the Funds Appropriated for the Expenses of the Philippine Assembly By Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred and Forty, to the House of Representatives, for Its Expenses Until December thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2669
December 14, 1916
An Act Amending Section One of Act Numbered Twenty-Six Hundred and Sixty-Five and Making An Additional Appropriation for the Expenses of the Philippine Senate.
Act No. 2668
December 14, 1916
An Act Fixing the Salaries of Certain Officers and Employees of the Government of the Philippine Islands.
Act No. 2667
November 18, 1916
An Act Adopting An Uniform Enacting Clause for the Acts and An Uniform Resolving Clause for the Joint S Passed By the Philippine Legislature.
Act No. 2666
November 18, 1916
An Act to Reorganize the Executive Departments of the Government of the Philippine Islands.
Act No. 2665
October 19, 1916
An Act Appropriating Funds for Sundry Expenses of the Philippine Senate.
Act No. 2663
June 19, 1916
An Act Appropriating the Sum of thirty-Nine thousand Pesos for Public Hospitals in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2662
March 27, 1916
An Act Making Applicable to that Part of the Philippine Islands Inhabited By Moros or Other Non-Christian People Certain Acts of the Philippine Legislature.
Act No. 2661
March 25, 1916
An Act Making Applicable to the City of Baguio, Mountain Province, that Part of Act Numbered Twenty-Six Hundred and Fifty-Seven, Known as the "Administrative Code," Contained in Chapter Fifty [One], Sections Twenty-Five Hundred and Twenty to Twenty-Five Hundred and Fifty-Four, Inclusive, Known as "the Charter of the City of Baguio."
Act No. 2660
March 24, 1916
An Act Establishing and Regulating Trading Systems in the Department of Mindanao and Sulu.
Act No. 2659
March 16, 1916
An Act Making Appropriation for Completion of Barracks and Quarters for the Philippine Constabulary At Cabugao, Apayao, Mountain Province.
Act No. 2658
March 03, 1916
An Act Making Applicable to that Part of the Philippine Islands Inhabited By Moros or Other Non-Christian People Certain Acts of the Philippine Legislature.
Act No. 2657
March 03, 1916
An Act Constituting An Administrative Code.
Act No. 2656
February 24, 1916
An Act Making the Penalties for Delinquency in the Payment of the Personal Cedilla Tax Less Onerous to the Taxpayer, and Providing for the Manner in Which a Current Cedula May Be Paid At the Same Time as Cedillas for Former Years.
Act No. 2655
February 24, 1916
An Act Fixing Rates of Interest Upon Loans and Declaring the Effect of Receiving or Taking Usurious Rates, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2654
February 24, 1916
An Act Granting to Alfredo Pardo De Tavera a Franchise to Install, Operate, and Maintain An Electric Light, Heat, and Power System in the Municipalities of San Fernando and Bacolor, Province of Pampangpa, Philippine Islands.
Act No. 2653
February 24, 1916
An Act to Amend Subsection (D) of Section Seven and Section Twelve of Act Numbered Twenty-Two Hundred and thirty-Eight, Entitled "An Act to Provide for the Revision and Correction of Land Tax Assessments, the Valuation of Newly Declared Real Property for the Purposes of Taxation, and Other Purposes," as Amended.
Act No. 2652
February 24, 1916
An Act Amending Act Numbered Twenty-One Hundred and Fifty-Two, Entitled "An Act to Provide a System for the Appropriation of Public Waters, and for the Determining of Existing Rights thereto; for the. Public Registration of All Water Rights; for the Creation and Use of Water Power; for Investigations for and the Construction, Maintenance, and Operation of Irrigation Systems By the Government of the Philippine Islands; for the Repayment of Money Expended therefor; for the Construction, Maintenance, and Operation of Irrigation Systems By Private Persons; for the Inspection and Regulation of All Works Pertaining to the Use of Water; and Providing Penalties for Its VIolation; and for Other Purpose," and Prescribing the Conditions Under Which a Loan May Be Obtained From Reimbursable Funds of the Government, and or Other Purposes.
Act No. 2651
February 24, 1916
An Act Appropriating Funds for the Immunization of Cattle and Carabaos By VIrtue of the Provisions of Act Numbered Twenty Five Hundred and Forty-Eight.
Act No. 2650
February 24, 1916
An Act Authorizing the Investment of the Immunized Cattle Insurance Fund Established By Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred and Forty-Eight.
Act No. 2649
February 24, 1916
An Act Appropriating Ten thousand Pesos for the Reforestation of Uncultivated Public Lands.
Act No. 2648
February 24, 1916
An Act Amending Subsections (G) and (H) of Section One Hundred and Eighty-Four and Section One Hundred and Ninety-Two of Act Numbered Twenty-Four Hundred and Twenty-Seven, Entitled "An Act Revising the Insurance Laws and Regulating Insurance Business in the Philippine Islands."
Act No. 2647
February 24, 1916
An Act Granting to Mariano Abella E Isaac a Franchise to Install, Operate, and Maintain An Electric Light, Heat, and Power System in Ihe Municipality of Naga, Province of Ambos Camarines, Philippine Islands.
Act No. 2646
February 24, 1916
An Act Empowering the Governor-General to Extend the Time for the Payment of the Land Tax Without Penalty in Any Province or Municipality Which Have Been Devastated By the Recent Typhoons.
Act No. 2645
February 24, 1916
An Act Amending Section Six Hundred and Eighteen of Act Numbered One Hundred and Ninety, Entitled "An Act Providing a Code of Procedure in Civil Actions and Special Proceedings in the Philippine Islands," Prescribing; Additional Requirements in the Execution of Wills.
Act No. 2644
February 24, 1916
An Act Granting to Eusebio Diaz Cacitas a Franchise to Install, Operate, and Maintain An Electric Ligt, Heat and Power System in the Municipality of Tabaco, in the Province of Albay, Philippine Islands.
Act No. 2643
February 24, 1916
An Act Granting Ramon Fernandez, a Citizen of the Philippine Islands and Resident of the City of Manila, and His Successors and Assigns, a Franchise to Establish, Construct, Equip, Maintain, and Operate a Railroad in the Province of Occidental Negros, Philippine Islands.
Act No. 2642
February 24, 1916
An Act Amending Act Numbered Eleven Hundred and Twenty, as Amended, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2641
February 24, 1916
An Act Authorizing Provincial and Municipal Governments to Make Appropriations From their General Funds to Defray the Expenses of Local Fairs, or to Send Exhibits to Any Other Provincial Fair in the Philippine Islands.
Act No. 2640
February 24, 1916
An Act to Amend Sections Two Hundred and Fifty-Six and Five Hundred and Sixty-Nine of Act Numbered One Hundred and Ninety, Known as the "Code of Procedure in Civil Actions and Special Proceedings in the Philippine Islands."
Act No. 2639
February 24, 1916
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Twenty-One Hundred and Fifty-Nine, Entitled "An Act to Regulate Motor Vehicle Traffic in the Philippine Islands, to Provide for the Registration of Motor Vehicles and the Licensing of Operators, and to Require All Vehicles on Highways to Carry Lights, and for Other Purposes" as Amended, By Regulating the Use of Headlights on Motor Vehicles, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2638
February 24, 1916
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Sixty-One thousand Pesos for Distribution Among the Municipalities in Which the Land, Tax for the Fiscal Year Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen May Be Remitted on Account of Damage Caused By Typhoons.
Act No. 2637
February 24, 1916
An Act Appropriating the Sum of Ten thousand Pesos for a Philippine Exhibit At the Taipeh, Formosa, Exhibition.
Act No. 2636
February 24, 1916
An Act Amending Section One of Act Numbered Six Hundred and Forty-Eight, Entitled "An Act Authorizing the Civil Governor to Reserve for Civil Public Purposes, and From Sale or Settlement, Any Part of the Public Domain Not Appropriated By Law for Special Public Purposes, Until Otherwise Directed By Law. and Extending the Provisions of Act Numbered Six Hundred and Twenty-Seven So that Public Lands Desired to Be Reserved By the Insular Government for Public Uses, or Private Lands Desired to Be Purchased By the Insular Government for Such Uses, May Be Brought Under the Operation of the Land Registration Act." By Authorizing the Governor-General to Revoke a Previous Executive Order Reserving Public Land or Amend the Same By Changing the Purpose of the Reservation By Means of Another Executive Order.
Act No. 2635
February 24, 1916
An Act Authorizing the Governor-General to Reserve for Public Purposes Land Belonging to the Private Domain of the Government.
Act No. 2634
February 23, 1916
An Act Authorizing the Reimbursement to Municipalities of Customs Duties Paid on Material Used in the Construction of Municipal Waterworks and Sewer Systems.
Act No. 2633
February 23, 1916
An Act Appropriating the Sum of One Million Pesos for Certain Work in Relation to the Protection of Early Infancy in the Philippine Islands, Including the Establishment of "Gotas De Leche."
Act No. 2632
February 23, 1916
An Act Appropriating Out of Any Funds in the Insular Treasury Not Otherwise Appropriated the Sum of Seven thousand Five Hundred Pesos for Assistance of Private Schools Estavlished in the Mountain Province.
Act No. 2631
February 04, 1916
An Act Authorizing the Provincial Board of Capiz to Expend a Certain Sum of the Establishment of a Hospital in the Subprovince of Romblon.
Act No. 2630
February 04, 1916
All Act Authorizing the "Marine Trading Company, Incorporated" to Bring Suit Against the Government of the Philippine Islands to Recover Damages, If Any, Alleged to Have Arisen From the Collision of Its Launch With a Scow Towed By a Launch Belonging to the Government of the Philippine Islands.
Act No. 2629
February 04, 1916
An Act Conferring Certain Powers Upon the Director of Education for the Purpose of stimulating and Encopuraging the Manufacture of Handicraft Products in the Philippine Islands, and Providing for the Establishment of Provincial Industrial Departments to Cooperate With the Bureau of Education, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2628
February 04, 1916
An Act Creating a Philippine Red Cross, Designating Its Powers and Duties, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2627
February 04, 1916
An Act Providing for the Suspension of Any Order of Ejection Against Delinquent Taxpayers in the Province of Albay Resulting From Delinquency in the Payment of Land Tax Due.
Act No. 2626
February 04, 1916
An Act Amending Section Twenty-Four of Act Numbered Sixteen Hundred and Ninety-Eight So as to Provide An Allowance of Vacation Leave to Messengers, Deputy Provincial and Municipal Treasurers, Deputy Provincial and Township Treasurers, and Telegraph Operators, Under Certain Conditions.
Act No. 2625
February 04, 1916
An Act Making Appropriation for the Creation of a Sinking Fund for the Purpose of Retiring At Maturity or Sooner If Desirable the Bonds Authorized to Be Issued By Act Numbered Twenty-Six Hundred and Fifteen.
Act No. 2624
February 04, 1916
An Act Appropriating Such Sum or Sums as Meay Be Necessary, in Money of the United states, for the Payment of Interest as It May Become Due Upon the Bounds Authorized to Be Issued By Act Numbered Twenty-Six Hundred and Fifteen.
Act No. 2623
February 04, 1916
An Act Appropriating Ten thousand Pesos for the Establishment and Maintenance of a Conservatory of Music.
Act No. 2622
February 04, 1916
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Twenty-three Hundred and thirty-Nine, Known as the Internal Revenue Law of Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen, as Amended By Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred and Forty-One.
Act. No. 2621
February 04, 1916
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Twenty-Four Hundred and Seventy-Four, Granting to the Sociedad Anonima Known as "Malolos Electric Light, Power, and Ice Plant Company," a Franchise to Install, Operate, and Maintain An Electric Light, Heat, and Power System in the Municipality of Malolos, Province of Bulacan Philippine Islands; By Extending the Time for Depositing the Second Installment in the Insular Treasury, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2619
February 04, 1916
An Act Granting a Franchise to Charles W. Carson to Construct, Maintain, and Operate Telephone and Telegraph Systems, and to Carry on Other Electrical Transmission Business in and Between the Provinces of Occidental Negros and Oriental Negros and the Municipalities thereof.
Act No. 2618
February 04, 1916
An Act to Convert the Townships of the Province of Ilocos Sur and the Subprovince of Abra Into Municipalities, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2617
February 04, 1916
An Act to Amend Sections Sixty-Seven and Seventy-One of Act Numbered One Hundred and thirty-Six, as Amended, and Section 1 Five of Act Numbered Fourteen Hundred and Fifty, as Amended, By Providing for the Salaries and Duties of the Justices of the Peace of the Capitals of Mindoro. Palawan, and Batanes, Limiting the Jurisdiction of the Ex-Officio Justices of Said Provinces, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2616
February 04, 1916
An Act on Salvage and Rendering of Assistance to Vessels and Cargoes.
Act No. 2615
February 04, 1916
An Act Providing for the Issue of Bonds of the Government of the Philippine Islands in Such Amount as May Be Authorized By the Congress of the United states Before the Next Session of the Philippine Legislature for the Purpose of Acquiring Funds for Public Expenditures.
Act No. 2614
February 04, 1916
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred and Sevenm Entitled "An Act Providing for a Board of Marine Examiners, for the Examination and Licensing of Watch Officers and Engineers on Philippine Vessels in the Coastwise Trade for and for the High Seas License Fees, Compensation, and Penalties, in Certain Cases, Repealing Certain Acts Relating thereto."
Act No. 2613
February 04, 1916
An Act to Improve the Methods of Production and the Quality of Tobacco in the Philippines and to Develop the Export Trade therein.
Act No. 2612
February 04, 1916
An Act Creating the Philippine National Bank.
Act No. 2611
February 04, 1916
An Act Making Additional Appropriations for Sundry Expenses of the Insular Government for the Fiscal Year Ended December thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen, and Other Periods Herein Specified.
Act No. 2610
February 04, 1916
An Act Making Additional Appropriations for General Expenses of the Judiciary for the Fiscal Year Ended December thirty-First, Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen.
Act No. 2609
February 04, 1916
An Act to Penalize the theft and Destruction of Coconuts and to Establish the Penalties to Be Imposed in Each Case.
Act No. 2608
February 04, 1916
An Act to Amend Section Nine of Act Numbered Eleven Hundred and Forty-Eight, Known as "the Forest Act," By Authorizing the Director of Forestry to Issue Permits for the Use of Forest Lands as Sites for Sawmills, the Construction of Hotels, Sanatoria, Residences, Camps, Fishponds, Pastures, or Other Lawful Uses.
Act No. 2607
February 04, 1916
An Act Authorizing and Directing the Secretary of Finance and Justice and the Insular Treasurer, With the Approval of the Governor-General, to Provide Funds for the stimulation and Aid of Agriculture.
Act No. 2606
February 04, 1916
An Act to Amend Paragraph Seven of Section three of Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Eighty-Two, Known as the Election Law, as Amended By Paragraph Two of Section three of Act Numbered Two thousand and Forty-Five and By Section One of Act Numbered Twenty-Four Hundre and Ninety-Eight.
Act No. 2605
February 04, 1916
An Act Providing for the Creation in the Philippine Islands of An Academy for Officers for the Philippine Constabulary.
Act No. 2604
February 04, 1916
An Act for the Protection of Marine Mollusca.
Act No. 2603
February 04, 1916
An Act Authorizing the Governor-General to Designate Depositories of the Philippine Government in the United states as Branches of the Philippine Treasury.
Act No. 2602
February 04, 1916
An Act to Amend Sections One, Five, and Six of Act Numbered Twenty-Four Hundred and Sixty-Two, Entitled "An Act Providing New Regulations for the Examination of Dentists and the Practice of Dentistry in the Philippine Islands, and for Other Purposes."
Act No. 2601
February 04, 1916
An Act to Tax Inheritances, Legacies and Other Acquisitions
Act No. 2600
February 04, 1916
An Act Prescribing the Qualifications of the Electors of Municipal Officers in the Provinces of Batanes, Mindoro, and Palawan, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2599
February 04, 1916
An Act to Authorize the Provincial Boards of the Provinces of Palawan, Mindoro, and Batanes to Extend the Time for the Payment, Without Penalty, of the Taxes in their Respective Provinces.
Act No. 2598
February 04, 1916
An Act Estasblishing a Coconut Products Board to Encourage the Improvement of Coconut Products, and Fro Other Purposes.
Act No. 2597
February 04, 1916
An Act Amending Section Twenty-three of Act Numbered Twenty-One Hundred and Sixty-Nine, Entitled "An Act to Provide for the Reorganization, Government, and Inspection of the Municipal Police of the Municipalities, or Provinces and Subprovinces Organized Under Act Numbered Eighty-three" So as to Authorize the Equipment of the Municipal Police With Revolvers.
Act No. 2596
February 04, 1916
the Infant Industry Act.
Act No. 2595
February 04, 1916
An Act Fixing Two Years as the Term for the Prescription of the Crime of Libel and of a Civil Action Arising therefrom.
Act No. 2594
February 04, 1916
An Act Amending Act Numbered Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-Eight, as Amended, Entitled, "An Act to Provide for Insurance of the Insular, Provincial, and Municipal Governments Against Loss From Damage or Destruction of Government Vessels and Craft. Government Machinery, and Permanent Public Buildings and Government Property therein, By Earthquake, Fire, Lightning, Flood, Typhoon, Tornado, Hurricane, or Cyclone," So as to Authorize the Temporary Investment of the Insurance Fund in Loans to the Manila Railroad Company.
Act No. 2593
February 04, 1916
All Act Amending Act Numbered Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-Nine, as Amended, By Authorizing the Investment Temporarily of the Public Works Bonds Sinking Fund in Loans to the Manila Railroad Company.
Act No. 2592
February 04, 1916
An Act Amending Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred and Fifty By Authorizing the Investment Temporarily of the Friar Lands Bonds Sinking Fund in Loans to the Manila Railroad Company.
Act No. 2591
February 04, 1916
An Act Amending Act Numbered Two thousand and Eighty-three, as Amended By Acts Numbered Twenty-three Hundred and Forty-Four and Twenty-Four Hundred and Sixty-Five, By Authorizing the Investment Temporarily of Part of the Gold standard Fund in stock of the Manila Railroad Company.
Act No. 2590
February 04, 1916
An Act for the Protection of Game and Fish.
Act No. 2589
February 04, 1916
An Act Providing for a Gratuity By Reason of Retirement to Officers and Employees of the Philippine Government Who Have Rendered Satisfactory Service During Six Continous Years or More, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2588
February 04, 1916
An Act Amending' Section Eighty-Eight of Act Numbered One Hundred and Ninety, Entitled "An Act Providing a Code of Procedure in Civil Actions and Special Proceedings in the Philippine Islands, as Amended By Act Numbered Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Eight, By Changing the Conditions Under, Which a Defendant May Be Allowed to Appeal From a Judgment of a Justice of the Peace Ordering the Restitution of Possession of Any Land or Building.
Act No. 2587
February 04, 1916
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Twenty-One Hundred and Fifty-Nine, as Amended, Entitled "An Act to Regulate Motor Vehicle Traffic in the Philippine Islands, to Provide for the Registration of Motor Vehicles and the Licensing of Operators, and to Require All Vehicles on Highways to Carry Lights, and for Other Purposes," By Fixing An Annual Registration, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2586
February 04, 1916
An Act to Amend Section One of Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred and One, in the Sense that the Present Vocales of the Provincial Hoard, Formerly third Members, Shall Be Called "Vocales of the Provincial Board," and that the Members Appointed By the Governor-General Shall Be Elective.
Act No. 2585
February 04, 1916
An Act Directing that the Provincial Boards Shall Establish and Maintain Agricultural Nurseries and Authorizing the Municipal Councils to Establish Such Nurseries Wherever the Public Interest May Require It.
Act No. 2584
February 04, 1916
An Act Regulating Sponge Fisheries in the Philippine Islands.
Act No. 2583
February 04, 1916
An Act Making An Appropriation for Public Works and Permanent Improvements.
Act No. 2582
February 04, 1916
An Act to Amend Section Twenty-Five and Add a Paragraph At the End of Section Twenty-Six of Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Eighty-Two.
Act No. 2581
February 04, 1916
An Act to Regulate the Sale of Certain Corporation Shares, stocks, Bonds and Other Securities.
Act No. 2580
February 04, 1916
An Act Providing for the Publication and Recording in the Bureau of Posts of the Names and Post-Office Addresses of Editors, Publishers, Managers, Owners and stockholders of Newspaper Publications, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2579
February 04, 1916
An Act Providing for the Collection of Tonnage Dues on Vessels Coming From or Going to Foreign Ports.
Act No. 2578
February 04, 1916
An Act Creating a School of the University of the Philippines to Be Known as "the Forest School."
Act No. 2577
February 04, 1916
An Act to Amend Certain Sections of Act Numbered Twenty-Four Hundred and Seventy-Nine, Entitled "the Sugar Central Act."
Act No. 2576
February 04, 1916
An Act to Amend the First, Tenth, and Eleventh Paragraphs of Section Five of Act Numbered Twenty-three Hundred and Forty-Seven, Entitled "An Act to Provide for the Reorganization of the Courts of First Instance and of the Court of Land Registration," as Amended.
Act No. 2575
February 04, 1916
An Act Amending Section Twenty-Six (C) of Act Numbered thirteen Hundred and Ninety-Six By Creating the Office of Provincial Fiscal for the Province of Palawan, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2574
February 04, 1916
An Act Authorizing the Governor-General to Execute a Certain Memorandum of Agreement With the Manila Railroad Company and the Manila Railway Company (1906), Limited, Making Appropriations for the Purpose of Carrying Out Said Memorandum of Agreement, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2573
February 04, 1916
An Act Providing for the Mutual Insurance of Work Animals.
Act No. 2572
February 04, 1916
An Act to Authorize, in the Interest of the Efficiency and Uniformity of the Public Service, the Consolidation of the Philippine Library, the Division of Archives, Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks of the Executive Bureau, and the Law and Library Division of the Philippine Assembly, to Form An Organization to Be Known as "Philippine Library and Museum," Under the Administrative Control of the Secretary of Public Instruction.
Act No. 2571
February 04, 1916
An Act Establishing the Right of Any Person Detained, Imprisoned, or Deprived of His Liberty to Confer With His Duly Accredited Attorney At Any Hour of the Day or Night, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2570
February 04, 1916
An Act Amending Sections Five and Nine of Act Numbered Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-Four, Entitled "An Act to Provide for the Leasing of Reclaimed Land for Commercial Purposes, for the Leasing of the Foreshore and Lands Under Water, and to Regulate the Construction of Bridges Over Navigable Waterways." By Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Police, With the Approval of the Governor-General, to Grant Permission to Use Any Portion of the Foreshore or Land Under Water in the Philippine Islands for Any Lawful Private Purpose, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2569
February 03, 1916
An Act to Provide that the Office of Provincial Governor of the Province of Mindoro Shall Be Elective, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2568
February 03, 1916
An Act Amending Section One of Act Numbered Twenty-Two Hundred and Twenty-Eight, Entitled "An Act Authorizing the Use, Under Certain Conditions, of the Road and Bridge Fund of the Provinces Organized Under Act Numbered Eighty-three, for Subsidizing or for the Acquisition, Operation, and Maintenance of Water Transportation," By Authorizing the Use of Said Fund for the Establishment and Operation of Telephone Systems.
Act No. 2567
February 03, 1916
An Act Punish Fraud Against the United states, and the Selling, Purchasing or Otherwise Acquiring Any Arms, Equipment, Ammunition, Clothes, Military stores or Other Public Property From Officers, Soldiers, Sailors or Other Persons Employed in the Military or Naval Service of the United states, or of the Philippine Constabulary.
Act No. 2566
February 03, 1916
An Act Amending Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred and Eight, Entitled "An Act Regulating the Creation and Operation of 'Rural Agricultural Cooperative Associations,' and for Other Purposes."
Act No. 2565
February 03, 1916
An Act Providing that S of the Provincial Boards of Special Provinces Must Obtain the Approval of the Secretary of the Interior Before Taking Effect, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2564
February 03, 1916
An Act to Amend the third Subsection of Section One of Act Numbered Twenty-three Hundred and Eighty-Seven, as Amended By Act Numbered Twenty-Four Hundred and thirty-three, and Section Ninety-three of Act Numbered One Hundred and thirty-Six, as Amended By Acts Numbered Two thousand and thirty-Five and Twenty-Two Hundred and Forty-Four, Relative to Notaries Public and the Final Disposition of Notaries' Registers.
Act No. 2563
February 03, 1916
An Act Separating the Philippine General Hospital From the Philippine Health Service and Placing It Under the Immediate Supervision of the Secretary of the Interior.
Act No. 2562
February 03, 1916
An Act Amending Section Twenty-three of Act Numbered thirteen Hundred and Ninety-Six, Entitled "the Special Provincial Government Act" By Reorganizing the Provincial Board of Nueva VIzcaya, Providing for the Election of a third Member, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2561
February 02, 1916
An Act to Amend Section Eighteen of Act Numbered Twenty-One Hundred and Sixty-Nine, Reorganizing the Municipal Police, By Making Final, Under Certain Conditions, the of the Provincial Governor in Cases of Suspension and Removal of Members of the Police.
Act No. 2560
February 02, 1916
An Act to Amend Section Four of Act Numbered Twenty-three Hundred and Sixty-One, By Extending the Time Allowed to the Grantee Under Said Act (Franchise to Chas. M. Swift for Hydro-Electric Plant).
Act No. 2559
February 02, 1916
An Act Extending the Provisions of the third Paragraph of Section Seven of Act Numbered Two thousand and Forty-One to the Justices of the Peace of Palawan, Mindoro. and Batanes.
Act No. 2558
February 02, 1916
An Act to Amend Section Eighteen of Act Numbered Twenty-Two Hundred and Fifty-Nine, Entitled "An Act Providing Certain Special Proceedings for the Settlement and Adjudication of Land Titles" as Amended By Act Numbered Twenty-three Hundred and thirty-Eight, By Introducing Several Modifications Relative to the Assessment and Exemption From the Payment of the Costs in Cadastral Proceedings.
Act No. 2557
February 01, 1916
An Act Providing for the Allowance to Persons Sentenced in Any Criminal Cause, With the Exception of Certain Classes of Crimes, of One-Half of the Preventive Imprisonment Undergone By them, Repealing Section Ninety-three of the "Provisional Law for the Application of the Provisions of the Penal Code to the Philippine Islands," and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2556
February 01, 1916
An Act to Repeal Section thirty and Further Amend Section One Hundred and Fourteen of Act Numbered Four Hundred and Ninety-Six, Entitled "the Land Registration Act," as Amended By Acts Numbered Sixteen Hundred and Forty-Eight and Sixteen Hundred and Ninety-Nine, and Eleven Hundred and Eight, Sixteen Hundred and Forty-Eight and Twenty-Two Hundred and Twenty-One, Respectively, By Abolishing the Certificates of Entries Issued By the Registers of Deeds in Registration Proceedings and Providing that the Applicant Shall in Certain Cases Pay the Amount of the Registration Expenses When these Exceed the Sum Paid as Fees.
Act No. 2555
January 31, 1916
An Act Construing the Provisions of Act Numbered Twenty-three Hundred and Sixty, as Amended By Act Numbered Twenty-Four Hundred and Seventy-Eight to Include Certain Lands and Buildings Belonging to the Hospital and Foundation of San Lazaro.
Act No. 2554
January 31, 1916
An Act Extending to the Provinces of Mindoro, Palawan, and Batanes the Provisions of All Laws Referring to the Levying, Collection, Execution, Disposition, and Extension of the Cedilla Personal Tax, With Certain Exceptions, Repealing Section Nineteen of Act Numbered thirteen Hundred and Ninety-Six So Far as It Refers to Said Provinces, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2553
January 26, 1916
An Act to Amend Section One of Act Numbered One Hundred and Forty-Six, Creating the Office of Purchasing Agent and Denning the Duties thereof, So as to Provide for An Annual Inspection By the Purchasing Agent of Government Supplies Held in stock.
Act No. 2552
January 25, 1916
An Act to Amend Subsection (H) of Section Six of Act Numbered thirteen Hundred and Ninety-Six, By Transferring to the Provincial Board the Power Conferred Upon the Provincial Governors of Palawan, Mindoro, and Batanes to Remove Township Officers.
Act No. 2551
January 25, 1916
An Act Establishing and Regulatfng Trading Systems in the Provinces of Palawan, Mindoro, and Batanes, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2550
January 22, 1916
An Act Making the Friar Lands Estates An Operating Unit; Providing for the Adjustment of the Friar Lands Bonds Sinking Fund; and Appropriating Such Amounts as May Be Necessary to Maintain the Friar Lands Bonds Sinking Fund and to Pay the Interest on the Friar Lands Bonds.
Act No. 2549
January 21, 1916
An Act Prohibiting in the Philippine Islands the Forcing, Compelling, or Obliging of Any Laborer or Other Employee. to Purchase Merchandise, Commodities, or Personal Property Under Certain Conditions, and the Payment of the Wages of a Laborer or Employee By Means of Tokens or Objects Other than Legal Tender Currency of the Philippine Islands.
Act No. 2548
January 17, 1916
An Act to Provide for the Immunization of Cattle and Carabaos to Prevent the Spread of Rinderpest Within the Philippine Islands, Appropriating Funds therefor, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2547
January 14, 1916
An Act Making Appropriations for Current Expenses, Public Works and Permanent Improvements, and for the Advancement in Civilization of the Non-Christian Peoples in the Mountain Province and Nueva VIzcaya for the Fiscal Year Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen, and for Other Purposes.
Act No. 2546
January 10, 1916
An Act Making Appropriation for the Reimbursement of H.C. Head for Improvements to Hotel Pines, Baguio, Under Certain Conditions.
Act No. 2545
January 08, 1916
An Act Extending to and Making Applicable in the Territory Inhabited By Moros and Other Non-Christian People the Provisions of Act Numbered Twenty-Five Hundred and Fforty-One, Entitled "An Act to Amend Act Numbered Twenty-three Hundred and thirty-Nine, Known as the Internal Revenue Law of Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen, By Changing the Rates of Taxes and Additional Taxes, Creating New Taxes, Abolishing Others, and for Other Purposes."
Act No. 2544
January 04, 1916
An Act Restoring to the Public Domain Certain Lands in the Province of Ambos Camarines Reserved therefrom for the Public Purposes By Proclamation Numbered One of the Governor-General, Series of Nineteen Hundred and thirteen.
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