An Act Providing for the Free Transportation, under Certain Conditions and Restrictions, of Certain Articles to the Lepers Kept at the Culion Leper Colony
Act No. 1953, enacted on May 20, 1909, provides for the free transportation of certain items from the families of lepers confined at the Culion leper colony. Families can send packages containing food, clothing, and documents to their leper relatives once every three months, with a weight limit of 100 pounds per shipment. The district health officer is responsible for receiving these items, scheduling their collection, and ensuring they are sent to Culion promptly. Family members eligible for this provision include parents, spouses, siblings, and children, with the health officer required to verify these relationships. All costs associated with this act are to be covered by the Bureau of Health's contingent funds.
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- What is An Act Providing for the Free Transportation, under Certain Conditions and Restrictions, of Certain Articles to the Lepers Kept at the Culion Leper Colony about?
- Act No. 1953, enacted on May 20, 1909, provides for the free transportation of certain items from the families of lepers confined at the Culion leper colony. Families can send packages containing food, clothing, and documents to their leper relatives once every three months, with a weight limit of 100 pounds per shipment. The district health officer is responsible for receiving these items, scheduling their collection, and ensuring they are sent to Culion promptly. Family members eligible for this provision include parents, spouses, siblings, and children, with the health officer required to verify these relationships. All costs associated with this act are to be covered by the Bureau of Health's contingent funds.
- What type of law is Act No. 1953?
- An Act Providing for the Free Transportation, under Certain Conditions and Restrictions, of Certain Articles to the Lepers Kept at the Culion Leper Colony (Act No. 1953) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
- When was An Act Providing for the Free Transportation, under Certain Conditions and Restrictions, of Certain Articles to the Lepers Kept at the Culion Leper Colony enacted?
- An Act Providing for the Free Transportation, under Certain Conditions and Restrictions, of Certain Articles to the Lepers Kept at the Culion Leper Colony (Act No. 1953) was enacted on May 20, 1909.
- What is the citation for An Act Providing for the Free Transportation, under Certain Conditions and Restrictions, of Certain Articles to the Lepers Kept at the Culion Leper Colony?
- An Act Providing for the Free Transportation, under Certain Conditions and Restrictions, of Certain Articles to the Lepers Kept at the Culion Leper Colony, Act No. 1953, May 20, 1909 (Philippines)
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May 20, 1909
ACT NO. 1953
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE FREE TRANSPORTATION, UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS, OF CERTAIN ARTICLES TO THE LEPERS KEPT AT THE CULION LEPER COLONY
SECTION 1. The family of any leper at present confined in the Culion leper colony is hereby authorized to deliver to the district health officer of each province, once in three months, any packages or parcels containing food, clothing, tobacco, letters, pictures and generally all sorts of documents or papers, and nothing else, to be sent free of all expense to the leper member of said family for his personal use whenever the total gross weight of each such shipment to a leper shall not exceed one hundred pounds.
SECTION 2. The district health officer of each province shall receive the articles mentioned in the next preceding section; shall fix, by means of notices in English, Spanish, and the local dialect, posted at the door of every municipal building in the province, the date or dates for the receipt of such articles at the provincial capital, and shall make said dates coincide as far as possible with the sailing dates of interisland mail steamers; shall issue receipts for the property delivered to him and shall send same without delay to Culion by the most practicable transportation route.
SECTION 3. For the purposes of this Act the parents, spouse, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters shall be considered the family of a leper, and it shall be the duty of the district health officer to ascertain and assure himself of such relationship in every instance before carrying out the provisions of this Act.
SECTION 4. All expenditures arising under this Act shall be paid out of the contingent funds appropriated for the Bureau of Health in the general appropriation Act.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
ENACTED: May 20, 1909.
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An Act Providing for the Free Transportation, under Certain Conditions and Restrictions, of Certain Articles to the Lepers Kept at the Culion Leper Colony, Act No. 1953, May 20, 1909 (Philippines)
An Act Providing for the Free Transportation, under Certain Conditions and Restrictions, of Certain Articles to the Lepers Kept at the Culion Leper Colony, Act No. 1953 (Phil. 1909)
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