Full Title
AN ACT TO CORRECT AN ERROR IN ACT NUMBERED NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TEN, ENTITLED "AN ACT AMENDING SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO, TWENTY-SIX.THIRTY-ONE, AND THIRTY-TWO OF ACT NUMBERED SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE, REFERRED TO AS 'THE OPIUM ACT,' BY PROVIDING FOR THE DISPOSITION OF ALL TAXES, FINES AND ALL OTHER MONEYS COLLECTED UNDER THIS ACT, INCREASING THE PENALITIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF SECTIONS THIRTY-ONE AND THIRTY-TWO, REPEALING SECTIONS TWENTY-SEVEN AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
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Date of Approval
February 5, 1912
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Official Gazette vol. 10 no. 12 page 515 (3/20/1912)
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[ Act No. 2148, February 06, 1912 ]
AN ACT TO CORRECT AN ERROR IN ACT NUMBERED NINETEEN HUNDRED AND TEN, ENTITLED "AN ACT AMENDING SECTIONS TWENTY-TWO, TWENTY-SIX, THIRTY-ONE, AND THIRTY-TWO OF ACT NUMBERED SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE, REFERRED TO AS THE OPIUM ACT, BY PROVIDING FOR THE DISPOSITION OF ALL TAXES, FINES, AND ALL OTHER MONEYS COLLECTED UNDER THIS ACT, INCREASING THE PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF SECTIONS THIRTY-ONE AND THIRTY-TWO, REPEALING SECTION TWENTY-SEVEN, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:SECTION 1. For the purpose of correcting an error therein, the second paragraph of section twenty-six of Act Numbered Seventeen hundred and sixty-one, referred to as The Opium Act, as amended by section two of Act Numbered Nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"First. The carrying out of the provisions of this Act and the provisions of paragraph eighty of section eleven of the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, entitled 'An Act to revise and amend the tariff laws of the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.'"
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its passage.Enacted, February 6, 1912.
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