An Act Amending Section Two Of Act Numbered Five Hundred and Twenty-Two, Relative to the Payment of Rewards for Information Leading to the Capture and Conviction of the Perpetrators of Any Murder or Robbery or of the Members of Any Band of Brigands in the Archipelago
Act No. 671, enacted on March 7, 1903, amends the provisions regarding the payment of rewards for information leading to the capture and conviction of murderers, robbers, or brigands in the Philippines. The amendment allows rewards up to $2,500, payable from the Insular Treasury, and permits provincial boards to pay these rewards from local funds, with reimbursement from the Insular Treasury upon proper certification. The act emphasizes the need for swift legislative action for the public good and takes effect immediately upon passage.
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- Act No. 671, enacted on March 7, 1903, amends the provisions regarding the payment of rewards for information leading to the capture and conviction of murderers, robbers, or brigands in the Philippines. The amendment allows rewards up to $2,500, payable from the Insular Treasury, and permits provincial boards to pay these rewards from local funds, with reimbursement from the Insular Treasury upon proper certification. The act emphasizes the need for swift legislative action for the public good and takes effect immediately upon passage.
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- An Act Amending Section Two Of Act Numbered Five Hundred and Twenty-Two, Relative to the Payment of Rewards for Information Leading to the Capture and Conviction of the Perpetrators of Any Murder or Robbery or of the Members of Any Band of Brigands in the Archipelago (Act No. 671) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
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- An Act Amending Section Two Of Act Numbered Five Hundred and Twenty-Two, Relative to the Payment of Rewards for Information Leading to the Capture and Conviction of the Perpetrators of Any Murder or Robbery or of the Members of Any Band of Brigands in the Archipelago (Act No. 671) was enacted on Mar 7, 1903.
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- An Act Amending Section Two Of Act Numbered Five Hundred and Twenty-Two, Relative to the Payment of Rewards for Information Leading to the Capture and Conviction of the Perpetrators of Any Murder or Robbery or of the Members of Any Band of Brigands in the Archipelago, Act No. 671, Mar 7, 1903 (Philippines)
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March 7, 1903
ACT NO. 671
AN ACT AMENDING SECTION TWO OF ACT NUMBERED FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO, RELATIVE TO THE PAYMENT OF REWARDS FOR INFORMATION LEADING TO THE CAPTURE AND CONVICTION OF THE PERPETRATORS OF ANY MURDER OR ROBBERY OR OF THE MEMBERS OF ANY BAND OF BRIGANDS IN THE ARCHIPELAGO
SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered Five hundred and twenty-two, entitled "An Act empowering the Civil Governor to authorize any provincial governor or the Chief of the Philippines Constabulary to offer a reward of any sum not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, local currency, for information leading to the capture and conviction of the perpetrators of any murder or robbery or of the members of any band of brigands in the Archipelago," is hereby amended by substituting in lieu thereof the following:
"SEC. 2. The rewards, the offer of which is authorized in the preceding section, shall be paid out of the Insular Treasury in pursuance of an appropriation duly made. The officer offering the reward is authorized to incur the expense of properly advertising the same and such expense shall be paid out of the Insular Treasury in pursuance of an appropriation duly made: Provided, however, That the provincial board of any province in which rewards in accordance with section one hereof are offered, is authorized to order the payment from provincial funds of such rewards; and reimbursement from the Insular Treasury of the amounts so paid shall be made by settlement warrant to the province upon certification by the Auditor, based on claim for the same by the provincial treasurer of the province, supported by proper vouchers and evidence."
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 7, 1903.
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An Act Amending Section Two Of Act Numbered Five Hundred and Twenty-Two, Relative to the Payment of Rewards for Information Leading to the Capture and Conviction of the Perpetrators of Any Murder or Robbery or of the Members of Any Band of Brigands in the Archipelago, Act No. 671, Mar 7, 1903 (Philippines)
An Act Amending Section Two Of Act Numbered Five Hundred and Twenty-Two, Relative to the Payment of Rewards for Information Leading to the Capture and Conviction of the Perpetrators of Any Murder or Robbery or of the Members of Any Band of Brigands in the Archipelago, Act No. 671 (Phil. 1903)
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