An Act to Amend Act Numbered Eight Hundred and Seventeen, Providing for the Suppression of the Locust Pest, by Excepting from its Operations Certain Public Servants and Employees of Common Carriers
Act No. 834, enacted on August 17, 1903, amends Act No. 817, which aimed to combat the locust pest threatening food supplies in the Philippines. This amendment exempts certain public servants, including military personnel, government employees, and professionals like lawyers and doctors, from mandatory participation in locust suppression efforts. Additionally, the locust board is granted the authority to make further exemptions as necessary for public interest. The Act was expedited for immediate effect upon passage, reflecting the urgency of addressing the locust threat.
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- Act No. 834
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- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
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August 17, 1903
ACT NO. 834
AN ACT TO AMEND ACT NUMBERED EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN, PROVIDING FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE LOCUST PEST, BY EXCEPTING FROM ITS OPERATIONS CERTAIN PUBLIC SERVANTS AND EMPLOYEES OF COMMON CARRIERS
SECTION 1. Nothing in Act Numbered Eight hundred and seventeen, entitled "An Act declaring that the presence of locusts in various provinces of the Islands so threatens the food supply for the coming year as to present a public emergency requiring radical action, and authorizing and providing for the appointment of a board in each province with full powers to call upon all able-bodied inhabitants thereof to take united action to suppress the pest, and for other purposes," shall require the services in the suppression of the locust pest of officers or men of the Army or Navy of the United States, civil employees of the United States Government, officers or employees of the Insular Government, or the officers or servants of companies or individuals engaged in the business of common carriers on sea or land, or priests, ministers of the Gospel, physicians, practicantes, druggists or practicantes de farmacia actually engaged in business, or lawyers when actually engaged in court proceedings.
The locust board is hereby authorized to make further exemption of such provincial and municipal officers as the public interest may require.
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, August 17, 1903.
Cite This Law
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Eight Hundred and Seventeen, Providing for the Suppression of the Locust Pest, by Excepting from its Operations Certain Public Servants and Employees of Common Carriers, Act No. 834, Aug 17, 1903 (Philippines)
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Eight Hundred and Seventeen, Providing for the Suppression of the Locust Pest, by Excepting from its Operations Certain Public Servants and Employees of Common Carriers, Act No. 834 (Phil. 1903)
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