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[ Act No. 2399, March 27, 1914 ]
AN ACT EXTENDING THE PROVISIONS OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-THREE HUNDRED TO THE TERRITORY INHABITED BY MOROS OR OTHER NON-CHRISTIAN TRIBES AND PENALIZING THE TAKING AWAY OF ANY UNCIVILIZED PERSON OR MEMBER OF ANY NON-CHRISTIAN TRIBE FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXPLOITING OR EXHIBITING SUCH PERSON AS A SPECTACLE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. Act Numbered Twenty-three hundred of the Philippine Legislature, enacted on November twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled "An Act confirming existing legislation prohibiting slavery, involuntary servitude, and peonage in the Philippine Islands, subject to modifications as provided in sections two hundred and sixty-eight, two hundred and sixty-nine, two hundred and seventy, and two hundred and seventy-one of the Act of the Congress of the United States, approved March fourth, nine-teen hundred and nine, entitled 'An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,' and adopting measures for preventing violations of said laws," is hereby extended to and made applicable in the territory inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes.
SEC. 2. Whoever shall take away any uncivilized person or member of any non-Christian tribe from his or her place of abode, or transport any such person within the Philippine Islands, or make any contract with any such person, or place any such person on board of any vessel, or attempt to do any of these things, or aid or abet the doing or attempting to do any of these things, in every instance for the purpose of exploiting or exhibiting such person as a spectacle either in the Philippine Islands or elsewhere, or making a profit from their exploitation or exhibition as such spectacle, shall be fined not more than ten thousand pesos and imprisoned for not more than five years.
SEC. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, March 27, 1914.
SECTION 1. Act Numbered Twenty-three hundred of the Philippine Legislature, enacted on November twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, entitled "An Act confirming existing legislation prohibiting slavery, involuntary servitude, and peonage in the Philippine Islands, subject to modifications as provided in sections two hundred and sixty-eight, two hundred and sixty-nine, two hundred and seventy, and two hundred and seventy-one of the Act of the Congress of the United States, approved March fourth, nine-teen hundred and nine, entitled 'An Act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States,' and adopting measures for preventing violations of said laws," is hereby extended to and made applicable in the territory inhabited by Moros or other non-Christian tribes.
SEC. 2. Whoever shall take away any uncivilized person or member of any non-Christian tribe from his or her place of abode, or transport any such person within the Philippine Islands, or make any contract with any such person, or place any such person on board of any vessel, or attempt to do any of these things, or aid or abet the doing or attempting to do any of these things, in every instance for the purpose of exploiting or exhibiting such person as a spectacle either in the Philippine Islands or elsewhere, or making a profit from their exploitation or exhibition as such spectacle, shall be fined not more than ten thousand pesos and imprisoned for not more than five years.
SEC. 3. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, March 27, 1914.