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H. No. 1747 / 65 OG No. 4, 768 (January 27, 1969)

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4804, June 18, 1966 ]

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



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

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, Caga-yan, Tacloban, San Fernando, Hinigaran, Dumaguete City, Maasin, Masao, Catbalogan, and Batangas."

SEC. 2. The sum of two hundred thousand pesos is here­by authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in the Baonal 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.

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

Approved, June 18, 1966.
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