An Act Making a Toll-Road of All that Part of the Benguet Road Situate, Lying, and Being within the Boundaries of the Mountain Province

June 26, 1909

ACT NO. 1959

AN ACT MAKING A TOLL-ROAD OF ALL THAT PART OF THE BENGUET ROAD SITUATE, LYING, AND BEING WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE MOUNTAIN PROVINCE

SECTION 1. The Governor-General is hereby authorized in his discretion, to declare that portion of the Benguet Road within the Mountain Province, a toll-road for vehicles carrying freight or merchandise, to make and promulgate rates and method of payment of toll and regulations for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act and to discontinue the collection of toll whenever in his judgment the public interests require. The proceeds of all tolls collected under the provisions of this Act shall be devoted, under the direction of the Governor-General, to the payment of the expenses of collection of the toll and of the maintenance and repair of said road. The Governor-General may exempt vehicles of the Army, Navy, or other Department of the United States Government from the payment of the toll.

SECTION 2. Any person violating any regulation duly made and promulgated by the Governor-General under the provisions of this Act shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed fifty pesos, and in default of payment thereof shall be imprisoned one day for each peso of such fine.

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: June 26, 1909.