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[ Act No. 978, November 03, 1903 ]

AN ACT TO CORRECT AN ERROR IN THE QUOTATION OF THE TITLE OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS APPROVED MARCH SECOND, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THREE, IN ACTS NUMBERED SIX HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX, SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO, SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-SIX, AND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO.

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

SECTION 1. The titles and texts of Acts Numbered Six hundred and ninety-six and Seven hundred and ninety-two, passed for the purpose of authorizing the issue of certificates of indebtedness and for other purposes, and the texts of Acts Numbered Seven hundred and ninety-six and Eight hundred and twenty-two, making appropriations for the purchase of silver bullion for the coinage of Philippine silver pesos and for other purposes, in which the title of an Act of Congress approved March second, nineteen hundred and three, authorizing in section six thereof the issue of such certificates of indebtedness and in section nine thereof the making of such appropriations, is incorrectly quoted, are hereby corrected so that the description.of said Act shall be in accordance with the language used in its title, to wit, "An Act to establish a standard of value and to provide, for a coinage system in the Philippine Islands."

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is herein 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, November 3, 1903.
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