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[ Act No. 1366, July 03, 1905 ]

AN ACT CREATING THE PORT OF JURATA, ON THE ISLAND OF CAGAYAN DE JOLO, A PORT OF ENTRY, AND AMENDING SECTION THREE HUNDRED AND L ONE OF ACT NUMBERED THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE, AS AMENDED.

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

SECTION 1. The port of Jurata, on the Island of Cagayan de Jolo, in the Jolo collection district, is hereby created a port of entry.

SEC. 2. The following employees are hereby authorized at said port: One collector of customs, class seven, who shall act as disbursing clerk without additional compensation; one interpreter and clerk, Class I; and such number of boatmen at a total expense of not to exceed twenty pesos, Philippine currency, per month, as may be necessary for the proper conduct of the customs business at said port.

SEC. 3. Section three hundred and one of Act Numbered Three hundred and fifty-five, entitled "An Act to constitute the Customs Service of the Philippine Archipelago and to provide for the administration thereof," as amended by Act Numbered Eight hundred and ninety-eight, is hereby further amended hj inserting, after the word "Bongao" in the eighth line of said section, the word "Jurata."

SEC. 4. 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, July 3, 1905.
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