An Act Providing for the Further Reimbursement of the Province of Cebu for the Loss of Revenue Sustained by it through the Suspension of the Land Tax for the Year Nineteen Hundred and Six
Act No. 1475, enacted on April 16, 1906, provides reimbursement to the Province of Cebu for revenue lost due to the suspension of land tax in 1906. It reallocates excess funds previously returned to the Insular Treasury to compensate Cebu, as full reimbursement under earlier legislation was not feasible. The appropriated funds will be deposited into Cebu's provincial treasury and utilized similarly to how land taxes were spent in 1904. The Act emphasizes the urgency of its passage for the public good and takes effect immediately upon enactment.
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- What is An Act Providing for the Further Reimbursement of the Province of Cebu for the Loss of Revenue Sustained by it through the Suspension of the Land Tax for the Year Nineteen Hundred and Six about?
- Act No. 1475, enacted on April 16, 1906, provides reimbursement to the Province of Cebu for revenue lost due to the suspension of land tax in 1906. It reallocates excess funds previously returned to the Insular Treasury to compensate Cebu, as full reimbursement under earlier legislation was not feasible. The appropriated funds will be deposited into Cebu's provincial treasury and utilized similarly to how land taxes were spent in 1904. The Act emphasizes the urgency of its passage for the public good and takes effect immediately upon enactment.
- What type of law is Act No. 1475?
- An Act Providing for the Further Reimbursement of the Province of Cebu for the Loss of Revenue Sustained by it through the Suspension of the Land Tax for the Year Nineteen Hundred and Six (Act No. 1475) is a Philippine Statutes enacted by the Congress of the Philippines.
- When was An Act Providing for the Further Reimbursement of the Province of Cebu for the Loss of Revenue Sustained by it through the Suspension of the Land Tax for the Year Nineteen Hundred and Six enacted?
- An Act Providing for the Further Reimbursement of the Province of Cebu for the Loss of Revenue Sustained by it through the Suspension of the Land Tax for the Year Nineteen Hundred and Six (Act No. 1475) was enacted on Apr 16, 1906.
- What is the citation for An Act Providing for the Further Reimbursement of the Province of Cebu for the Loss of Revenue Sustained by it through the Suspension of the Land Tax for the Year Nineteen Hundred and Six?
- An Act Providing for the Further Reimbursement of the Province of Cebu for the Loss of Revenue Sustained by it through the Suspension of the Land Tax for the Year Nineteen Hundred and Six, Act No. 1475, Apr 16, 1906 (Philippines)
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- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
April 16, 1906
ACT NO. 1475
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE FURTHER REIMBURSEMENT OF THE PROVINCE OF CEBU FOR THE LOSS OF REVENUE SUSTAINED BY IT THROUGH THE SUSPENSION OF THE LAND TAX FOR THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SIX
SECTION 1. The excess of thirty-two thousand three hundred and twenty-one pesos and forty-five centavos returned to the unappropriated general fund in the Insular Treasury in accordance with a resolution of the Philippine Commission of March twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, from funds appropriated by section two of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifty-five for the purpose of reimbursing for the calendar year nineteen hundred and six to the several provinces and municipalities, not including the city of Manila, the amounts which those provinces and municipalities collected from land taxes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, is hereby reappropriated for the benefit of the Province of Cebu, adequate reimbursement of said province for the loss of revenue sustained by it through the suspension of the land tax for the year nineteen hundred and six being impossible under the provisions of section two of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifty-five, by reason of the fact that the land tax in the Province of Cebu, outside of certain excepted portions thereof, was by law remitted for the year nineteen hundred and five.
SECTION 2. The funds appropriated by section one of this Act shall be paid into the provincial treasury of Cebu in addition to the amount payable under the provisions of section two of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifty-five and in the same manner as provided in said latter section, and the total amount so paid into the treasury of the Province of Cebu shall be apportioned and expended in precisely the same way that by existing law the land taxes collected in the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four were apportioned and expended.
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, April 16, 1906.
Cite This Law
An Act Providing for the Further Reimbursement of the Province of Cebu for the Loss of Revenue Sustained by it through the Suspension of the Land Tax for the Year Nineteen Hundred and Six, Act No. 1475, Apr 16, 1906 (Philippines)
An Act Providing for the Further Reimbursement of the Province of Cebu for the Loss of Revenue Sustained by it through the Suspension of the Land Tax for the Year Nineteen Hundred and Six, Act No. 1475 (Phil. 1906)
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