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[ Act No. 66, January 02, 1901 ]
AN ACT AMENDING THE SECOND PARAGRAPH OF ORDER NUMBER THIRTY-EIGHT OF GENERAL ORDERS OF THE MILITARY GOVERNOR, ISSUED MARCH TWENTY-FOURTH, NINETEEN HUNDRED, PROVIDING FOR LICENSING SMALL BOATS WHICH HAVE A LESS CAPACITY THAN FIFTEEN GROSS TONS BURDEN.
By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. The second paragraph of Order Number Thirty-eight of General Orders of the Military Governor, issued March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Enacted, January 2, 1901.
SECTION 1. The second paragraph of Order Number Thirty-eight of General Orders of the Military Governor, issued March twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Hereafter any owner of a small boat which has a less capacity than fifteen gross tons burden, who may wish to carry on a local trade in any of the equipped ports and near coast ports, upon application at the nearest equipped port, and on taking the oath of allegiance to the United States Government, shall be granted a license to run for one year, permitting his vessel to engage in legitimate sea-coast traffic between the port where application is made and the near or adjacent seacoast towns and villages—the owner paying for the same one peso per ton for each ton of the vessel's gross tonnage, the payment to be made in cash; the minimum payment shall be one peso."SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, January 2, 1901.