Act No. 603, enacted on January 28, 1903, amends a previous law regulating commerce in the Philippine Islands. The amendment allows common carriers to offer special transportation rates to government officers, employees, and U.S. military personnel traveling at their own expense, ensuring these rates are uniform for all eligible individuals. The act emphasizes the need for swift enactment in the interest of public good and takes effect immediately upon passage.
January 28, 1903
ACT NO. 603
AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED NINETY-EIGHT, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO REGULATE COMMERCE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS"
SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Ninety-eight, entitled "An Act to regulate commerce in the Philippine Islands," is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section the following words:
"Provided, nevertheless, That nothing in this Act contained shall be deemed to prohibit a person or corporation engaged as a common carrier of passengers or property from granting a special rate to officers and employees of the Insular and provincial governments in the Philippine Islands, or to officers, soldiers, and sailors of the Army or Navy of the United States in the Philippine Islands, for transportation for themselves, their families, and personal household effects when traveling at their own expense. Such special rate, if granted to any, shall be uniform as to all such officers, employees, soldiers, and sailors."
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.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, January 28, 1903