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[ Act No. 875, September 09, 1903 ]
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION OF DUTIES ON GOODS, WARES, AND MERCHANDISE IMPORTED INTO THE ISLANDS FOR USE OF THE INSULAR, PROVINCIAL, OR MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. All goods, wares, and merchandise imported for the benefit of the Insular, provincial, or municipal governments of the Islands shall pay the same duties as those imposed upon goods, wares, and merchandise imported for private persons, and no government contract hereafter made for work, materials, or supplies shall stipulate for the free entry of materials or supplies by the contractor.
SEC. 2. The Collector of Customs shall not make any free entry of goods, wares, and merchandise imported for the Insular Government or the provincial or municipal governments: Provided, however, That this Act shall not affect the free entry of goods for the completion of government contracts already made, a specific term of which provides that the material to be used in the performance of the contract shall be brought in free of duty.
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, September 9, 1903.
SECTION 1. All goods, wares, and merchandise imported for the benefit of the Insular, provincial, or municipal governments of the Islands shall pay the same duties as those imposed upon goods, wares, and merchandise imported for private persons, and no government contract hereafter made for work, materials, or supplies shall stipulate for the free entry of materials or supplies by the contractor.
SEC. 2. The Collector of Customs shall not make any free entry of goods, wares, and merchandise imported for the Insular Government or the provincial or municipal governments: Provided, however, That this Act shall not affect the free entry of goods for the completion of government contracts already made, a specific term of which provides that the material to be used in the performance of the contract shall be brought in free of duty.
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, September 9, 1903.