An Act to Amend Act No. 2711, Known as the Administrative Code

March 16, 1923

ACT NO. 3069

AN ACT TO AMEND ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, BY INSERTING BETWEEN SECTIONS ELEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX AND ELEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SEVEN THEREOF, THREE NEW SECTIONS TO BE KNOWN AS SECTIONS ELEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX AND ONE-FOURTH, ELEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX AND ONE-HALF, AND ELEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX AND THREE-FOURTHS

SECTION 1. Three new sections, to be known as sections eleven hundred and seventy-six and one-fourth, eleven hundred and seventy-six and one-half, and eleven hundred and seventy-six and three-fourths, are hereby inserted between sections eleven hundred and seventy-six and eleven hundred and seventy-seven of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, known as the Administrative Code, as follows:

"SEC. 1176 1/4. The Insular Collector of Customs may license yachts used and employed exclusively as pleasure vessels owned by Filipino or American citizens, on terms which will authorize them to proceed from port to port of the Philippine Islands and to foreign ports without entering or clearing at the customhouse: Provided, however, That any yacht so licensed, upon arriving from a foreign port in the Philippine Islands after having previously advised the Insular Collector of Customs by telegraph of its probable arrival, shall enter at a port of entry in the Philippine Islands and shall immediately report its arrival to the Customs authorities. Such license shall be in such form as the Insular Collector of Customs may prescribe. Such vessels shall have their name and port of registration placed on some conspicuous portion of their hulls. Such vessels shall in all respects be subject to the laws of the Philippine Islands, and shall be liable to seizure and forfeiture for any violation of these provisions. DcaSIH

"SEC. 1176 1/2. Any master or owner violating the provisions of the preceding section shall be liable to a fine of from five thousand pesos in addition to any other penalty imposed by law.

"SEC. 1176 3/4. For the identification of yachts and their owners, a commission to sail for pleasure in any designated yacht owned by a citizen of the Philippine Islands or of the United States designating the particular cruise may be issued by the Insular Collector of Customs and shall be a token of credit to any Filipino official and to the authorities of any foreign power. All such licensed yachts shall use a signal of the form, size, and colors prescribed by the Insular Collector of Customs."

SECTION 2. Section eleven hundred and eighty-nine of the same Act is hereby amended by inserting at the end thereof a new section, to be known as section eleven hundred and eighty-nine and one-half, as follows:

"SEC. 1189 1/2. Whenever the owner of a steam or a sailing yacht, who had reached the age of twenty-one years, and who has had one year's experience in sailing such vessels, applies for a license authorizing him to act as master of steam yachts for Philippine coastwise and ocean navigation, the Board of Marine Examiners shall examine the applicant as to his knowledge of the rules of the road; fog signals and lights; the use of the lead and line; the use of patent and ship logs; the compass, variation and deviation of the compass; the use of the drag; the use of oil during storms; bell signals between pilot house and engine room; handling of steam vessels; laws of storms; course and distance by chart; keeping the log book; middle latitude sailing; mercator's sailing; method of obtaining latitude and longitude by dead reckoning; latitude by altitude of either the sun, moon or stars; longitude by chronometer (time sights). Practical problems should be given in the subject of latitude and longitude. If said examination is satisfactory to the Board of Marine Examiners, they shall recommend to the Insular Collector of Customs the issuance to the applicant of a master's license, authorizing him to discharge the duties of a master of steam yachts either for coastwise or ocean navigation: Provided, however, That should the applicant demonstrate efficiency in the handling of sailing vessels only the Board of Marine Examiners may recommend the issuance of a license as master of sailing yachts only: Provided, further, That such license as master of yachts shall not be required for sailing vessels, or sailine vessels with auxiliary motor, of less than one hundred and fifty tons gross."

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March 16, 1923.