Time Extension for Payment of Land Tax in Romblon for 1903
Act No. 922, enacted on October 3, 1903, extends the deadline for the payment of land tax in the Province of Romblon for the year 1903 to December 31, 1903. This extension is due to complications arising from changes in the tax lists and the necessity for skilled clerical work, which delayed tax collection. The Act emphasizes its urgency by expediting its passage to serve the public good. It takes effect immediately upon passage.
October 3, 1903
ACT NO. 922
AN ACT EXTENDING THE TIME FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE LAND TAX IN THE PROVINCE OF ROMBLON FOR THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THREE
Whereas the changes made by the board of tax revision of the Province of Romblon in the tax lists thereof, rendering necessary many changes in the books of the provincial treasurer, the employment of temporary clerks to perform the work, which was of such a character that it could not well be done except by clerks of experience and skill not easily procurable, and other unforeseen causes have made the collection of the land tax for the year nineteen hundred and three in said province within the time designated by law impossible: Now, therefore,
SECTION 1. The period for the payment, without penalty, of the land tax for the year nineteen hundred and three in the Province of Romblon is hereby extended to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and three, anything in previous Acts to the contrary notwithstanding.
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. cdtech
Enacted: October 3, 1903