Extending the Time to Redeem Real Property Forfeited to Municipalities for Non-Payment of Taxes

April 30, 1908

ACT NO. 1819

AN ACT EXTENDING TO DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHT, THE TIME WITHIN WHICH REAL PROPERTY WHICH HAS BEEN FORFEITED TO MUNICIPALITIES FOR NON-PAYMENT OF TAXES MAY BE REDEEMED

SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered Twelve hundred and ninety-eight, as amended by Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and seventy and Fifteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2. All real property which has heretofore been forfeited, or which shall during the year nineteen hundred and eight be forfeited to the Government, in accordance with law, shall be redeemable by the owner thereof or his legal representative at any time during the calendar year nineteen hundred and eight, upon the payment to the provincial treasurer or his deputy of the amount of taxes and penalties due thereon, together with six per centum interest from the date on which the taxes became delinquent to the date of payment, and of all costs due thereon. In case that the original owner or his legal representative shall redeem property forfeited to municipalities as herein provided, the provincial treasurer or his deputy, in the name of such treasurer, is hereby empowered to execute and shall execute a deed in form and effect sufficient under the laws of the Philippine Islands to reconvey the property to the original owner or his legal representative." DETACa

SECTION 2. All Acts or parts of Acts contrary to the provisions of this Act are repealed.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

ENACTED, April 30, 1908.