Full Title
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE VERIFICATION FREE OF CHARGE BY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AS NOTARIES EX OFFICIO, AND FOR THE REGISTRATION FREE OF CHARGE BY REGISTERS OF DEEDS, OF INSTRUMENTS CONCERNING AGRICULTURAL OR CROP LOANS NOT EXCEEDING TWO HUNDRED PESOS MADE TO SMALL FARMERS BY THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK.
Congress
1st National Assembly
Date of Approval
October 21, 1936

Other Details

Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance
Legislative Issuance Type
Commonwealth Act

Official Gazette

Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 35 no. 13 page 204 (1/30/1937)

Full Text of Issuance

[ Commonwealth Act No. 66, October 22, 1936 ]

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE VERIFICATION FREE OF CHARGE BY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AS NOTARIES EX OFFICIO, AND FOR THE REGISTRATION FREE OF CHARGE BY REGISTERS OF DEEDS, OF INSTRUMENTS CONCERNING AGRICULTURAL OR CROP LOANS NOT EXCEEDING TWO HUNDRED PESOS MADE TO SMALL FARMERS BY THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK.

Be it enacted by the National Assembly of the Philippines: SECTION 1. Any justice of the peace, in his capacity as notary public ex officio, shall render service free of charge of to any person applying for an agricultural or crop loan not exceeding two hundred pesos from the Philippine National Bank either in administering the oath or in the acknowledgment of instruments relative to said loan.SEC. 2. Any register of deeds shall make proper entry in the books and records of his office, free of charge, of any instrument relative to agricultural or crop loans not exceeding two hundred pesos made to any person by the Philippine National Bank.SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect as provided in section eleven of the Revised Administrative Code.Approved, October 22, 1936.

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