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[ Act No. 3246, December 01, 1925 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHT OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE, INCREASING THE TAX ON PLAYING CARDS

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-eight of Act Numbered Twenty-eight hundred and thirty-five is hereby amended to read as follows:

"Section 1198.ℒαwρhi৷ Tax on playing cards.- (1) On each pack of cards containing not more than fifty-eight cards, there shall be collected a tax of one peso. (2) On each pack containing more than fifty-eight cards, there shall be collected the tax established in the last preceding paragraph and a proportionate additional tax on the number in excess of fifty-eight."

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

Approved, December 1, 1925.

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