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[ Act No. 1725, September 23, 1907 ]

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE PROVISIONS OF ACT NUMBERED FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT PROHIBITING THE EXHUMATION OF HUMAN REMAINS WITHIN ONE AND ONE-HALF YEARS AFTER INTERMENT SHALL NOT APPLY TO CERTAIN PENDING CASES.

Whereas a number of persons in the United States made arrangements to transfer the remains of deceased relatives and friends to their former homes before they had an opportunity to become acquainted with the provisions of Act Numbered Fourteen hundred and fifty-eight, which prohibits the disinterment of human remains until one and one-half years have elapsed from the time of burial: Now, therefore,

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

SECTION 1. The Director of Health is hereby authorized to grant permits for the removal of all human remains in all such cases in which applications for disinterment have been made prior to the passage of this Act.

SEC. 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.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, September 23, 1907.
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