An Act to Amend Act Numbered Four Hundred and Twenty-Two, as Amended, by Defining New Limits for the Province of Paragua, and for Other Purposes

May 14, 1903

ACT NO. 747

AN ACT TO AMEND ACT NUMBERED FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO, AS AMENDED, BY DEFINING NEW LIMITS FOR THE PROVINCE OF PARAGUA, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered Four hundred and twenty-two, entitled "An Act providing for the organization of a provincial government in the Province of Paragua and defining the limits of that province," as amended by Act Numbered Five hundred and sixty-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2. The Province of Paragua shall consist of the entire Island of Paragua, the Islands of Dumaran and Balabac, the Calamianes Islands, the Cuyos Islands, the Cagayanes Islands, and all other islands adjacent thereto and not included within the limits of any other province."

SECTION 2. Section four of said Act Numbered Four hundred and twenty-two is hereby amended so as to provide that the provincial capital of the Province of Paragua shall be at the municipality of Puerto Princesa on the Island of Paragua, and the provincial officials shall reside and have their offices in said municipality of Puerto Princesa: Provided however, That until cable communication shall have been established between Puerto Princesa and Manila, the provincial governor of Paragua shall have discretion to fix the capital of that province either at Cuyo or at Puerto Princesa, and to change the place of the capital from one place to the other, as the public interests may require, the change of the capital, if made, to be effected by a proclamation of the provincial governor, a copy of which shall be forwarded to the Executive Bureau in Manila.

SECTION 3. The action of the Director of Census in ordering the census of the Cagayanes Islands to be taken by the supervisor of the census for the Province of Paragua as a part of said province is hereby legalized, any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding.

SECTION 4. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 5. 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 6. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, May 14, 1903.