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[ Act No. 3161, March 08, 1924 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, AS AMENDED BY ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION 1. Section one hundred and sixty-one of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-one hundred and seven, is hereby amended, in the paragraph relative to the terms  of  court in the Seventeenth District, to read as follows:

"SEC.  161. Seventeenth District.—At Capiz, Province of Capiz, on the first Tuesday of January and August of each year; at Makato and Calivo, same province, on  the first Tuesday of July of each year; at San Jose, Province of Antique, on the first Tuesday of April and November of each year; at Romblon, Province of Romblon, on the first Tuesday of  March  and October of each year: Provided, however, That the  Court of First Instance shall hold a special term in each of the municipalities of Makato and Calivo for a period of  fifteen  days, and shall endeavor to assign to each  the cases belonging to the municipalities nearest the place where these terms of court are  held."

SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved, March 8,  1924.
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