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[ Act No. 395, May 06, 1902 ]
ALL ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX, WHICH CREATED A SPECIAL COURT FOR THE TRIAL OF CERTAIN ACTIONS IN THE ISLAND OF NEGROS SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE JUDGE OF THAT SPECIAL COURT TO MAKE INTERLOCUTORY ORDERS AND CONDUCT CERTAIN PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO ACTIONS INSTITUTED IN THE ISLAND OF NEGROS SINCE THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF JUNE, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ONE.
By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. Act Numbered One hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An Act creating a special court for the trial of certain actions, appellate and original, pending in the courts of the Island of Negros on or before the sixteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and one," is hereby amended by the addition of a new section to said Act, following section six thereof, as follows:
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, May 6, 1902.
SECTION 1. Act Numbered One hundred and sixty-six, entitled "An Act creating a special court for the trial of certain actions, appellate and original, pending in the courts of the Island of Negros on or before the sixteenth day of June, nineteen hundred and one," is hereby amended by the addition of a new section to said Act, following section six thereof, as follows:
"SEC. 7. The judge of said court shall have power to grant and dissolve temporary injunctions, to make and discharge orders of arrest and of attachment, to issue writs of habeas corpus, and to hear and determine the legality of the detention of the persons brought before him on writs of habeas corpus in any action now or heretofore or hereafter pending or instituted in either province of the Island of Negros, with the same effect in all respects as though such injunction had been granted or dissolved, or such order of arrest or attachment ordered or vacated or such writ of habeas corpus had been issued and the proceedings thereon determined by the regular judge of the Court of First Instance for the two provinces aforesaid."Sections seven and eight of said Act Numbered One hundred and sixty-six are hereby amended to read sections eight and nine respectively.
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, May 6, 1902.