Amendment to Administrative Code Re: Dumaguete City as Port of Entry

June 18, 1954

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1173

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED, BY ADDING DUMAGUETE CITY AS PORT OF ENTRY, AND AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS THEREFOR

SECTION 1. Section eleven hundred fifty-one of the Administrative Code, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Seven hundred twenty-one, is further amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 1151.  Collection districts and ports of entry thereof . — For administrative purposes, the Philippine shall be divided into eighteen collection districts, the respective limits of which may be changed from time to time in the discretion of the Insular Collector of Customs, but the Province of Pangasinan shall belong to the district of Pangasinan, with Sual as its port of entry, and the Province of Quezon to the district of Quezon, with Hondagua as its port of entry. The principal ports of entry for the respective collection districts shall be Manila, Sual, Tabaco, Cebu, Pulupandan, Hondagua, Iloilo, Davao, Legaspi, Zamboanga, Jolo, Aparri, Jose Panganiban, Cagayan, Tacloban, San Fernando, Hinigaran, and Dumaguete City." cd

SECTION 2. The sum of two hundred fifty thousand pesos is authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the establishment and operation of the customs service at the port of Dumaguete City.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 18, 1954

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 50, No. 9, p. 4105 in September 1954