[ Act No. 2775, March 11, 1918 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

Section 1. Section fourteen hundred and ninety-three of the Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 1493. Specific tax on matches.-On matches there shall be collected:

"(a) On each gross of boxes containing not more than eighty sticks to the box, forty centavos.ℒαwρhi৷

"(b) On each gross of boxes containing over eighty sticks to the box, a proportionate additional tax."

Section 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Effective, March 11, 1918.


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