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" By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Legislature, that:

SECTION 1. Act Numbered Fifteen hundred and nineteen, entitled "An Act to provide for inspecting and sealing weights and measures and to regulate their used is hereby amended as follows:

(a)  Strike out section two and insert in lieu thereof the following:

"SEC  5. Until otherwise provided by law, the use of the English system of weights and measures m the purchase and sale manufactured lumber is authorized, and until the first day of January, nineteen hundred and nine. The use is authorized of any scale or balance graduated in English avoirdupois pounds, together with the necessary set of weights therefor: Provided, That said scale or balance can be shown to have been in use in the Philippine Islands before the date of the passage of this Act.

"The English avoirdupois pound is equal to four hundred and fifty-three and six-tenths grams."

(b)  Insert the following proviso at the end of section eight: "And provided further, That in the purchase and sale of manufactured lumber the English system of weights and measures maybe employed."
(c)  Strike out paragraph  (a)  of section eighteen and insert in lieu thereof the following:

"(a) For a linear measure: Not over one and one-half meters, ten centavos; over one and one-half meters, twenty centavos; for a linear measure used in measuring manufactured lumber, not over one yard, ten.centavos; over one yard, twenty centavos: Provided, That for a linear measure not in the metric system other than a measure used for measuring manufactured lumber the charge shall be doubled."
(d)   Insert the following proviso at the end of section twenty:

"Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to buyers and sellers of manufactured lumber."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, June 1, 1908.