An Act Amending Section Fifteen of Act Numbered Seven Hundred and Two, Section One of Act Numbered Nine Hundred and Eighty-Nine, and Section One of Act Numbered One Thousand and Thirty-Five, by Extending the Time for Completing the Registration of Chinese in the Philippine Islands

March 10, 1904

ACT NO. 1084

AN ACT AMENDING SECTION FIFTEEN OF ACT NUMBERED SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWO, SECTION ONE OF ACT NUMBERED NINE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-NINE, AND SECTION ONE OF ACT NUMBERED ONE THOUSAND AND THIRTY-FIVE, BY EXTENDING THE TIME FOR COMPLETING THE REGISTRATION OF CHINESE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

WHEREAS it was impossible to complete the registration of all Chinese persons in the Philippine Islands within the ten months ending February twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and four, as provided in Acts Numbered Seven hundred and two, Nine hundred and eighty-nine, and One thousand and thirty-five: Therefore,

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. The time for such registration is, pursuant to authority granted by section four of the Act of Congress approved April twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and two, hereby extended for a period of two months, to date from February twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and four.

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, March 10, 1904. CAIHTE