[ Act No. 394, April 30, 1902 ]

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSING OF THE PORT OF SIASSI, DISTRICT OF JOLO, AS A PORT OF ENTRY, AND FOR THE OPENING OF THE PORT OF APARRI, DISTRICT OF MANILA, AND AMENDING ACTS NUMBERED THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE AND THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN IN CERTAIN PARTICULARS.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. The port of Siassi, in the Jolo collection district, is hereby discontinued as a port of entry, and section sixteen of Act Numbered Three hundred and fifty-five, and section twenty-eight of Act Numbered Three hundred and sixty-seven, making provision for such port and for employees thereat are hereby repealed. The port of Siassi, however, will remain open to the coastwise trade.SEC. 2. The port of Aparri, in the Manila collection district, is hereby created a port of entry in charge of an acting collector of customs.SEC. 3. The following employees are hereby authorized for the Aparri custom-house, and in the office of the acting collector of customs for the port of Aparri: One acting collector of customs of class six, who shall act as disbursing clerk without additional compensation; one clerk of Class D; four boatmen of Class K, at seventy-two dollars per annum each, in money of the United States.SEC. 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred.SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect June first, nineteen hundred and two.Enacted, April 30, 1902.

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