An Act to Amend Section Eight of Act Numbered Forty-One Hundred and Sixty-Six as Amended

June 16, 1938

COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 323

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION EIGHT OF ACT NUMBERED FORTY-ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX AS AMENDED

SECTION 1. Section eight of Act Numbered Forty-one hundred and sixty-six as amended by Commonwealth Act Numbered Seventy-seven, is further amended so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 8. The President shall allocate or cause to be allocated among all the planters engaged in the growing of sugar cane, the total amount of 'B' and 'C' sugar the manufacture whereof may be permitted in any given year, as provided in section five of this Act. The allocation of said 'B' and 'C' sugar shall be effected in as fair and equitable manner as may be possible; due regard, however, to be given to such as may deserve reasonable amelioration on account of reduced allotment, or the absence thereof, in 'A' sugar permitted to be manufactured. The total amount of 'B' and 'C' sugar shall be allocated among the mill districts, and in turn among the plantations adherent thereto, based on their individual total production during the 1932-1933 or 1933-1934 crop, whichever is the largest: Provided, however, That the President shall have authority to set aside not more than ten per centum of the total amount of 'C' sugar to be used as amelioration allotments for sugar cane and sugar producers who may be found to deserve such special consideration as well as such amount of 'B' sugar as he may consider necessary to be used as amelioration allotments for mill districts whose export quota is less than four thousand short tons so as to complete their total 'A' and 'B' sugar allotment up to its maximum crop year production, inclusive of the year 1933-1934: Provided, That none of these ameliorated mill districts shall have a total 'A' and 'B' sugar allotment greater than four thousand short tons.

"In those mill districts where the mill or mills had not been in operation for at least three milling seasons up to and including the 1933-1934 crop, their allotment of 'B' sugar hereunder shall consist of an amount which, together with the allotment of 'A' sugar to which the mill district would be entitled from a quota of one million fifteen thousand and one hundred eighty-five and sixty-eight hundredths short tons would be equal in quantity to its mill districts domestic allotment contained in Executive Order Numbered Fifty-four of the President of the Philippines dated September fourteen, nineteen hundred and thirty-six."

SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 16, 1938.