An Act Amending Act Numbered Nine Hundred and Forty-Three, Entitled "An Act Reducing the Twenty-Three Municipalities of the Province of Pampanga to Seventeen"

November 6, 1903

ACT NO. 982

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-THREE, ENTITLED "AN ACT REDUCING THE TWENTY-THREE MUNICIPALITIES OF THE PROVINCE OF PAMPANGA TO SEVENTEEN"

SECTION 1. Act Numbered Nine hundred and forty-three, entitled "An Act reducing the twenty-three municipalities of the Province of Pampanga to seventeen," is hereby amended as follows:

(a) By striking out of the title the word "seventeen," and substituting therefor the word "sixteen," so as to make said title read as follows: "An Act reducing the twenty-three municipalities of the Province of Pampanga to sixteen."

(b) By amending paragraph three of section one so as to read as follows:

"3. The municipality of Guagua shall consist of its present territory and that of the municipalities of Betis and Sexmoan, with the seat of the municipal government at the present municipality of Guagua."

(c) By striking out all of paragraph sixteen of section one.

(d) By striking out the number "seventeen" in paragraph seventeen of section one, and substituting, therefor the number "sixteen."

(e) By striking out the words "sixteen and seventeen" in the eighth and ninth lines of section two, and substituting therefor the words "and sixteen."

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, November 6, 1903.