Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by amended the authority of the same:
SECTION 1. Paragraph (
x) of section fourteen hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Administrative Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"(x) Lending investors:
"1. In chartered cities and first-class municipalities, two hundred pesos;
"2. In second-class municipalities, one hundred fifty pesos;
"3. In third-class municipalities, one hundred pesos;
"4. In fourth and fifth-class municipalities, townships and municipal districts, fifty pesos;
"Provided, That lending investors who do business as such in more than one province shall pay a tax of two hundred pesos: And provided, further, That the business of lending investors shall be exempt from municipal taxation."
SEC. 2. Paragraph (
v) of section fourteen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Administrative Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"(v) 'Lending investor' includes all persons who make a practice of lending money for themselves or others at interest."
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
Approved, December 2, 1932.