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[ Act No. 1561, November 10, 1906 ]

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL TO PAROLE PRISONERS AND PROVIDING FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF SUCH PAROLES.

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

SECTION 1. The Governor-General may, whenever he thinks best, be authorize and direct the discharge from custody of any person convicted of crime under the laws of the Philippine Islands and suspend the sentence: of such convict without granting a pardon, and prescribe the terms upon which a convict so paroled shall have his sentence suspended.

SEC. 2. Upon the failure of: any convict to observe the conditions of his parole, to lie determined by the Governor-General, the Governor-General shall have authority to direct the arrest and return of such  convict  to  custody,  and thereupon said convict shall be  required to carry out the sentence of the court as though no parole had been granted him. the time between the parole and subsequent arrest not being taken as a part of the term of his sentence in computing the period  of his confinement.

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,  November 10,  1906.
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