An Act Amending Act Numbered Four Hundred and Fifty-Three, Authorizing the Publication by the Insular Government of an Official Gazette, by Providing for a Further Distribution of Free Copies of Such Gazette, and for Other Purposes

March 5, 1903

ACT NO. 664

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE, AUTHORIZING THE PUBLICATION BY THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT OF AN OFFICIAL GAZETTE, BY PROVIDING FOR A FURTHER DISTRIBUTION OF FREE COPIES OF SUCH GAZETTE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. Sections three and four of Act Numbered Four hundred and fifty-three authorizing the publication by the Insular Government of an Official Gazette, are hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 3. The Official Gazette shall be published weekly in two parts, one part in English and the other in Spanish. Each part shall be issued separately and shall contain all legislative Acts and all resolutions of public nature of the Insular Legislature, all executive orders, such decisions or abstracts of decisions of the Supreme Court, the Court of Customs Appeals, and the Court of Land Registration, as may be deemed by said courts of sufficient importance to be printed and published, and such other official documents as are usually published in an official gazette which may be designated for publication by the Secretary of Public Instruction or which may be recommended for publication by the editor and approved by the Secretary of Public Instruction.

"SEC. 4. The Official Gazette shall be delivered on subscriptions received at the rate of six dollars, United States currency, per year, payable in advance, and shall be sold at fifteen cents, United States currency, per single copy. Each provincial and municipal government shall subscribe for one copy of such Gazette and pay for the same out of provincial or municipal funds, and such copy shall be filed and safely kept with the public records of the province or municipality for reference. Subscriptions may be made by the provinces or municipalities for such additional copies of the Gazette for distribution among the provincial or municipal officers as they may deem necessary. A number of copies of each number of the Gazette, not exceeding five, may be retained by the Public Printer for the official use of the Bureau of Public Printing, two copies shall be deposited in the library of the Commission, the custodian of which library shall see to it that these copies are properly indexed, bound, and preserved in the library, and one copy shall be deposited with each of the following officers weekly: The Civil Governor, the Secretaries of the several Executive Departments, the members of the Philippine Commission, the Justices of the Supreme Court, the judges of the Court of Customs Appeals, the Courts of First Instance, and Court of Land Registration, the justices of the peace, the Executive Secretary, and the heads of the various Bureaus and offices under the Insular Government. These copies shall be the property of the Insular Government, shall remain on file in the respective offices supplied, and shall be turned over by a retiring incumbent to his successor. One copy of each number of the Official Gazette may also be sent, without charge, to the following officers: The President of the United States and each member of his Cabinet, the Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission, the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, District of Columbia, the Commanding General of the Army of the Philippines, the commanding generals of each of the several Departments and the Judge-Advocate of the Division of the Philippines, the commanding officer of the fleet on this station, the commandant of the naval station, Cavite, and twenty copies of each number shall be sent to the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and ten copies to the Librarian of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia. Copies may also be exchanged with such similar publications as may be designated by the Secretary of Public Instruction. Postage on copies forwarded on subscription or exchange to foreign port shall be borne by the Insular Government." SCaITA

SECTION 2. All previous laws and orders relating to the distribution of public documents are hereby repealed in so far as they relate to the distribution of the Official Gazette.

SECTION 3. 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 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, March 5, 1903.