Amendment to Act No. 1396

October 11, 1907

ACT NO. 1769

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED THIRTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX, ENTITLED "THE SPECIAL PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT ACT," BY AUTHORIZING PROVINCIAL BOARDS TO GRANT LICENSES FOR COLLECTING EDIBLE BIRDS' NESTS AND TO MAKE REGULATIONS TO PREVENT THE EXTERMINATION OF THE BIRDS THAT BUILD SUCH NESTS

SECTION 1. Section seventeen of Act Numbered Thirteen hundred and ninety-six, entitled "The Special Provincial Government Act," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph:

"(s) To license collectors of edible birds' nests and to fix the fees which shall be charged for the issuance of such licenses, and to make such regulations as may be necessary to prevent the extermination of the birds that build edible nests and the consequent destruction of the edible birds' nest industry. Any person collecting such nests without a license or violating any such regulations shall, for each offense, be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred pesos, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. The taking of one nest without a license shall constitute an offense. The funds derived from the issuance of such licenses and from any fines collected for violation of regulations shall be paid into the township and settlement fund."

SECTION 2. 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. DETACa

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, October 11, 1907.