Amendment to Chapter 52 of Act No. 2711 (Revised Administrative Code)

December 6, 1929

ACT NO. 3634

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. Chapter fifty-two of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, is hereby amended by inserting between sections nineteen hundred and seventy-eight and nineteen hundred and seventy-nine thereof a new section to be known as section nineteen hundred and seventy-eight A, and to read as follows:

"SEC. 1978 A. Messages which shall not be transmitted. — No message belonging to any of the following classes shall be transmitted by telegraph, cable or wireless telegraphy, or delivered to its addressee by any officer or employee of the Bureau of Posts:

"(a) Written or printed message or communication describing or pertaining to, or conveying or purporting to convey, any information concerning any lottery or gift enterprise.

"(b) Written or printed message or communication containing scurrilous libels against the Government of the United States or the Government of the Philippine Islands, or containing any statement which tends to disturb or obstruct any lawful officer in the administration of his office or in the performance of his duty, or which tends to instigate others to cabal or meet together for unlawful purposes, or which suggests or incites rebellious conspiracies or tends to disturb the peace of the community or to stir up the people against the lawful authorities.

"(c) Written or printed message or communication containing obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, indecent words or language.

"(d) Written or printed message or communication advertising or describing or giving, directly or indirectly, information where, how, from whom, or by what means any article, instrument, drug, or substance designed, intended, or adopted for preventing conception, or producing abortion may be obtained or made, or where or by whom any act or operation of any kind for the procuring or producing of abortion, will be done or performed, or who or by what means conception may be prevented or abortion produced." ScaCEH

SECTION 2. Section nineteen hundred and eighty-three of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 1983. Deprivation of use of money order system and telegraphic transfer service. — The Director of Posts may, upon evidence satisfactory to him that any person or company is engaged in conducting any lottery, gift enterprise, or scheme for the distribution of money, or of any real or personal property by lot, chance, or drawing of any kind, or that any person or company is conducting any scheme, device, or enterprise for obtaining money or property of any kind through the mails by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, forbid the issue or payment by any postmaster of any postal money order or telegraphic transfer to said person or company or to the agent of any such person or company, whether such agent is acting as an individual or as a firm, bank, corporation, or association of any kind, and may provide by regulation for the return to the remitters of the sums named in money orders or telegraphic transfers drawn in favor of such person or company or its agent. The public advertisement by such person or company so conducting any such lottery, enterprise, scheme or device, that remittances for the same may be made by means of postal money orders or telegraphic transfers to any other person, firm, bank, corporation, or association named therein shall be held to be prima facie evidence of the existence of said agency by all the parties named therein; but the Director of Posts shall not be precluded from ascertaining the existence of such agency in any other lawful manner."

SECTION 3. Chapter sixty-six of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, is hereby amended by adding to section twenty-seven hundred and fifty-seven another paragraph reading as follows:

"(g) Any person who evades or attempts to evade a fraud order issued by the Director of Posts under the authority of section nineteen hundred and eighty-two hereof, or who permits his name to be used for evading such fraud order."

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, December 6, 1929.