Catbalogan, Samar as a Port of Entry

June 18, 1966

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4804

AN ACT MAKING CATBALOGAN, SAMAR, A PORT OF ENTRY, AND AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATION OF NECESSARY FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE

SECTION 1. Section seven hundred one of Republic Act Numbered Nineteen hundred thirty-seven, otherwise known as the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines, as amended by Republic Act Numbered Thirty-seven hundred fifty-seven, is further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 701. Collection districts and port of entry thereof . — For administrative purposes, the Philippines shall be divided into as many collection districts as there are at present existing, the respective limits of which may be changed from time to time by the Commissioner, upon the approval of the department head. The principal ports of entry for the respective collection districts shall be Manila, Sual, Tabaco, Cebu, Pulupandan, Sia-in, Iloilo, Davao, Legaspi, Zamboanga, Jolo, Aparri, Jose Panganiban, Cagayan, Tacloban, San Fernando, Hinigaran, Dumaguete City, Maasin, Masao, Catbalogan, and Batangas."

SECTION 2. The sum of two hundred thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the establishment and operation of the customs services at the port of Catbalogan in the Province of Samar for the fiscal year nineteen hundred sixty-seven. Thereafter, such sums necessary for the same purpose shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved: June 18, 1966

Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 65, No. 4, p. 768 on January 27, 1969