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[ Act No. 1104, April 04, 1904 ]

AN ACT SO AMENDING SECTION THIRTY-THREE OF ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SIX AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE REPORTS OF THE DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT SHALL BE PUBLISHED IN BOTH THE ENGLISH AND SPANISH LANGUAGES, BUT THAT THE DECISIONS IN EACH LANGUAGE SHALL BE BOUND SEPARATELY INSTEAD OF IN THE SAME VOLUME, AS NOW PROVIDED BY LAW.

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

SECTION 1. Section thirty-three of Act Numbered One hundred and thirty-six, entitled "An Act providing for the organization of courts in the Philippine Islands," is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"SEC. 33. In what language cases reported.-Until the first day of January, nineteen hundred and six, each case shall be reported in both the English and Spanish languages, and the decisions shall be bound in separate volumes, one volume containing the decisions in the English language and the other in the Spanish language. After the first day of January, nineteen hundred and six, the decisions shall be published only in the English language."
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, April 4, 1904.
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