An Act to Amend Section Two Hundred and Eighty-Four of the Philippine Customs Administrative Act

March 12, 1903

ACT NO. 678

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FOUR OF THE PHILIPPINE CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATIVE ACT

SECTION 1. Section two hundred and eighty-four of the Philippine Customs Administrative Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 284. The following papers shall not be issued, received, granted, or in any manner recognized by any customs officer unless there shall be affixed thereto a lawful customs stamp or stamps of the Philippine Islands, representing the value in the United States currency as follows, subject to the exemptions prescribed by section one hundred and thirty-five of this Act for vessels possessing second-class coastwise licenses:

"Each foreign clearance — $2.00

"Each coastwise clearance, except for vessels possessing a 'special license':

"For vessels up to 75 tons, net — $0.10

"For vessels from 75 to 125 tons, net — .30

"For vessels from 125 to 200 tons, net — 1.00

"For vessels from 200 to 300 tons, net — 1.50

"For vessels from 300 tons, net and upward — 2.00

"Each original inward manifest except for vessels possessing a 'special license':

"For vessels up to 75 tons, net — .20

"For vessels of 75 to 125 tons, net — .30

"For vessels of 125 to 200 tons, net — 1.00

"For vessels of 200 to 30, tons, net — 1.50

"For vessels of 300 tons, net, and upward — 2.00

"Each bill of health — .50

"Each outward foreign passenger list — .50

"Each original export entry exceeding $25 in value — .50

"Each original import entry exceeding $25 in value — .50

"Each original withdrawal entry — .20

"Each entry for immediate transportation in bond — .50

"Each original free entry, except free entries of stores for Government use, exceeding $10 in value — .20

"Each original certificate — .50

"Each original bond — .50

"Each copy of official document — .50

"Until due provision can be made for printing a supply of customs stamps, the Insular Collector is authorized to make a requisition upon the Collector of Internal Revenue of these Islands for a sufficient number of internal-revenue stamps, which shall first be stamped across their face with the word 'Customs' and then kept for sale by customs officers for use in compliance with the provisions of this section. The funds accruing from the sale of the internal-revenue stamps so used and sold for customs purposes, shall be regularly deposited as customs collections. These stamps shall be in lieu of internal-revenue stamps heretofore used on the above-mentioned customs documents."

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, March 12, 1903. DETACa