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[ Act No. 1904, May 19, 1909 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND ACT NUMBERED SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINE, AS AMENDED, BY AUTHORIZING THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL TO EXTEND SAID ACT OF ANY PART THEREOF BY PROCLAMATION TO ANY MILITARY OR NAVAL RESERVATION OR TO ANY PLACE OR PREMISES WITHIN A DISTANCE NOT EXCEEDING TWO MILES OF ANY SUCH RESERVATION.
By authority of the United Stairs, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:
SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Seven hundred and nine, entitled "An Act prohibiting the traffic in intoxicating liquors within certain distances of lands used by the United States for military purposes and at certain camps therein named," as amended, is hereby further amended by adding ;it the end thereof the following:
Enacted, May 19, 1909.
SECTION 1. Section one of Act Numbered Seven hundred and nine, entitled "An Act prohibiting the traffic in intoxicating liquors within certain distances of lands used by the United States for military purposes and at certain camps therein named," as amended, is hereby further amended by adding ;it the end thereof the following:
"Provided further, That the Governor-General, upon the request of the commanding general of the Philippines Division, or the admiral commanding the Philippine Squadron, may. in his discretion, by proclamation, extend Act .Numbered Seven hundred and nine, as amended, or any part thereof, to any public lands reserved by the President of the United States for military or naval purposes in the Philippine Islands, or to any place or premises within a distance to be prescribed in such proclamation, not exceeding two miles, of any such reservation, provided that within such distance the central part (casco de poblacion) of a municipality is not included."SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, May 19, 1909.