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[ Act No. 1156, May 14, 1904 ]
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE MARKING OF ANIMALS AFFLICTED WITH SURRA.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any duly authorized agent of the Board of Health for the Philippine Islands or of the Bureau of Government Laboratories to mark any animal found to be afflicted with surra by fastening in its right ear a metal tag marked with the letter "S" and with a number.
SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful to remove any such tag affixed as provided, in section one of this Act until the animal so marked has been pronounced free from surra by a duly authorized agent of the Board of Health or of the Bureau of Government Laboratories. Any person removing a tag in violation of this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty pesos for each offense.
SEC. 3. 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, May 14, 1904.
SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any duly authorized agent of the Board of Health for the Philippine Islands or of the Bureau of Government Laboratories to mark any animal found to be afflicted with surra by fastening in its right ear a metal tag marked with the letter "S" and with a number.
SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful to remove any such tag affixed as provided, in section one of this Act until the animal so marked has been pronounced free from surra by a duly authorized agent of the Board of Health or of the Bureau of Government Laboratories. Any person removing a tag in violation of this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than fifty pesos for each offense.
SEC. 3. 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. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, May 14, 1904.