Full Title
AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE SECRETARY OF JUSTICE TO PURCHASE THE ORIGINAL OF DR. JOSE RIZAL'S "EL FILIBUSTERISMO," AND MAKING THE NECESSARY APPROPRIATION FOR THIS PURPOSE.
Congress
7th Philippine Legislature
Date of Approval
November 26, 1925

Other Details

Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance
Legislative Issuance Type
ACT

Official Gazette

Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 24 no. 7 page 113 (1/16/1926)

Full Text of Issuance

[ Act No. 3241, November 27, 1925 ]

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE SECRETARY OF JUSTICE TO PURCHASE THE ORIGINAL OF DR. JOSE RIZAL'S "EL FILIBUSTERISMO," AND MAKING THE NECESSARY APPROPRIATION FOR THIS PURPOSE

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.  The Secretary of  Justice is hereby authorized to purchase the original of Dr. Jose Rizal's novel "El Filibusterismo," to be deposited in the Philippine Library and Museum, as property of the Insular Government.SEC. 2.  The sum  of ten  thousand  pesos is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Insular  Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be disbursed in its entirety or so  much thereof as may be necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary  of Justice, for the purchase  of the original of  "El Filibusterismo."SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its  approval.Approved, November 27, 1925.

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