Full Title
AN ACT CONFERRING JURISDICTION UPON JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN THE MORO PROVINCE TO TRY PERSONS CHARGED WITH INFRACTIONS OF MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES.
Congress
Date of Approval
August 12, 1911
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Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance Type
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Official Gazette
Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 9 no. 34 page 1379 (8/19/1911)
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[ Act No. 2072, August 07, 1911 ]
AN ACT CONFERRING JURISDICTION UPON JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN THE MORO PROVINCE TO TRY PERSONS CHARGED WITH INFRACTION OF MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:Section 1. Justices of the peace in the Moro Province shall have original jurisdiction to try persons charged with infraction of municipal ordinances arising within the limits of their respective territorial jurisdictions: Provided, however. That this provision shall not be construed to repeal in any way the provisions of section twenty-seven of Act Numbered Seven hundred and eighty-seven, as amended.SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on October first, nineteen hundred and eleven.Enacted, August 7, 1911.
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