Be it  enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:

SECTION  1. Section fourteen hundred and ninety-eight of Act Numbered Twenty-eight hundred and thirty-five  is hereby amended to read as follows:

'SEC. 1198. Tax on playing cards.— (1) On each pack of cards containing not more than fifty-eight cards, there shall be collected a  tax of one peso.   (2)  On each pack containing more than fifty-eight cards, there shall  be collected the tax established in the last preceding paragraph and a proportionate additional  tax  on the number in  excess of fifty-eight."

SEC. 2. This  Act shall take effect on its approval.

Approved,  December 1, 1925.