An Act to Amend Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Nineteen, Entitled "An Act to Provide for Inspecting and Sealing Weights and Measures and to Regulate their Use," So as to Authorize the Continued Use of the English System of Weights and Measures in the Purchase and Sale of Manufactured Lumber
Act No. 1843, enacted on June 1, 1908, amends a previous law regulating weights and measures in the Philippines. It specifically permits the continued use of the English system of weights and measures for the purchase and sale of manufactured lumber until further notice. The amendment allows for the use of scales graduated in English avoirdupois pounds, provided they were in use before the Act's passage. Additionally, it adjusts fees for measuring services, maintaining the English system for manufactured lumber transactions. This Act took effect immediately upon its enactment.
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- Act No. 1843, enacted on June 1, 1908, amends a previous law regulating weights and measures in the Philippines. It specifically permits the continued use of the English system of weights and measures for the purchase and sale of manufactured lumber until further notice. The amendment allows for the use of scales graduated in English avoirdupois pounds, provided they were in use before the Act's passage. Additionally, it adjusts fees for measuring services, maintaining the English system for manufactured lumber transactions. This Act took effect immediately upon its enactment.
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- An Act to Amend Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Nineteen, Entitled "An Act to Provide for Inspecting and Sealing Weights and Measures and to Regulate their Use," So as to Authorize the Continued Use of the English System of Weights and Measures in the Purchase and Sale of Manufactured Lumber (Act No. 1843) was enacted on Jun 1, 1908.
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- An Act to Amend Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Nineteen, Entitled "An Act to Provide for Inspecting and Sealing Weights and Measures and to Regulate their Use," So as to Authorize the Continued Use of the English System of Weights and Measures in the Purchase and Sale of Manufactured Lumber, Act No. 1843, Jun 1, 1908 (Philippines)
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June 1, 1908
ACT NO. 1843
AN ACT TO AMEND ACT NUMBERED FIFTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR INSPECTING AND SEALING WEIGHTS AND MEASURES AND TO REGULATE THEIR USE," SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE CONTINUED USE OF THE ENGLISH SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES IN THE PURCHASE AND SALE OF MANUFACTURED LUMBER
SECTION 1. Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and nineteen, entitled "An Act to provide for inspecting and sealing weights and measures and to regulate their use," is hereby amended as follows:
(a) Strike out section five and insert in lieu thereof the following:
"SEC. 5. Until otherwise provided by law, the use of the English system of weights and measures in the purchase and sale of manufactured lumber is authorized, and until the first day of January, nineteen hundred and nine, the use is authorized of any scale or balance graduated in English avoirdupois pounds, together with the necessary set of weights therefor: Provided, That said scale or balance can be shown to have been in use in the Philippine Islands before the date of the passage of this Act.
"The English avoirdupois pound is equal to four hundred and fifty-three and six-tenths grams." DTEcSa
(b) Insert the following proviso at the end of section eight:
"And Provided Further, That in the purchase and sale of manufactured lumber the English system of weights and measures may be employed."
(c) Strike out paragraph (a) of section eighteen and insert in lieu thereof the following:
"(a) For a linear measure: Not over, one and one-half meters, ten centavos; over one and one-half meters, twenty centavos; for a linear measure used in measuring manufactured lumber, not over one yard, ten centavos; over one yard, twenty centavos: Provided, That for a linear measure not in the metric system other than a measure used for measuring manufactured lumber the charge shall be doubled."
(d) Insert the following proviso at the end of section twenty:
"Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to buyers and sellers of manufactured lumber."
SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
ENACTED, June 1, 1908. SCaITA
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An Act to Amend Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Nineteen, Entitled "An Act to Provide for Inspecting and Sealing Weights and Measures and to Regulate their Use," So as to Authorize the Continued Use of the English System of Weights and Measures in the Purchase and Sale of Manufactured Lumber, Act No. 1843, Jun 1, 1908 (Philippines)
An Act to Amend Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Nineteen, Entitled "An Act to Provide for Inspecting and Sealing Weights and Measures and to Regulate their Use," So as to Authorize the Continued Use of the English System of Weights and Measures in the Purchase and Sale of Manufactured Lumber, Act No. 1843 (Phil. 1908)
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