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[ Act No. 1177, June 04, 1904 ]

AN ACT AMENDING SECTION SIX OF THE MANILA LIQUOR LICENSES ACT.

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

SECTION 1. Section six of Act Numbered Fifty-nine, known as "The Manila Liquor Licenses Act," is herein amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 6. All saloons, bars, and other drinking places shall be closed from twelve o'clock midnight until five o'clock antemeridian the following day, except that when the following day shall be Sunday they shall remain closed until five o'clock antemeridian the following Monday; and it shall be unlawful for any person to sell, give away, or otherwise dispose of any fermented, malt, vinous, or spirituous, or other intoxicating liquors between the above-mentioned hours except as herein provided but the words 'give away' where they occur in this Act shall not apply to the giving away of intoxicating liquors by a person in his private dwelling, unless such private dwelling shall become a place of public resort."
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, June 4, 1904.
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