Amendments to Act No. 2381

November 16, 1931

ACT NO. 3898

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS TEN AND ELEVEN OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-ONE, ENTITLED "AN ACT RESTRICTING THE USE OF OPIUM AND REPEALING ACT NUMBERED SEVENTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE"

SECTION 1. Section ten of Act Numbered Twenty-three hundred and eighty-one is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 10. Fines and other moneys collected by virtue of the provisions of this Act shall be covered into the Insular Treasury to the credit of the general fund of the Insular Government. There is hereby constituted a permanent annual appropriation of such amount as may be necessary to pay rewards to informers under the following conditions:

"Fifteen per centum of all fines imposed by reason of violations of this Act shall be paid to the person who furnished the original evidence properly substantiated, which led to the detection of the offense and the imposition of the fine. The name of the informer shall be specified in the judgment of the court when a conviction is had in a court: Provided, That in all cases in which no fine is imposed but where the sentence is one for imprisonment or deportation, there shall be paid to the informer an amount approved by the Secretary of Finance, not exceeding one thousand pesos in any one case." CDHSac

SECTION 2. Section eleven of the same law is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 11. The Chief of the Constabulary shall exercise supervision over the enforcement of this Act, without prejudice to the full exercise of the powers and duties in reference thereto incumbent upon other branches of the Government service and may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, compromise any cases arising under the provisions of this Act, when the accused is suffering from illness that would be aggravated by imprisonment as certified by three reputable physicians, or, when in the interests of justice, the court so orders, such compromises to be made either before or after the commencement of legal proceedings therein but not after judgment is pronounced."

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

Approved, November 16, 1931.