October 1907

70acts
  1. 01Act 1800An Act Amending Act Numbered Fourteen Hundred and Seven by Providing for the Setting Aside of Communal Forests for the Benefit of Municipalities, Townships, and Settlements.
  2. 02Act 1798An Act to Provide for the Protection of Animal Life in the Philippine Islands.
  3. 03Act 1799An Act Appropriating the Balance of the Congressional Relief Fund in the Insular Treasury Not Otherwise Appropriated and Any Refunds Which May Accrue to Said Fund from Allotments or Appropriations Heretofore Made from the Congressional Relief Fund, with Certain Exceptions, for the Manufacture of Serum for Use in the Cure and Prevention of Animal Diseases, and for the Establishment, Operation, and Maintenance of Quarentine Stations Throughout the Islands.
  4. 04Act 1796An Act to Amend Section Fourteen (C) of Act Numbered Tour- Teen Hunted and Seven by Increasing the Duties of the Bureau of Navigation in Regard to Harbor Improvements.
  5. 05Act 1797An Act Conferring upon Officers of the United States Army, Under Certain Circumstances, the Powers of Peace Officers, and Repealing Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Five.
  6. 06Act 1794An Act to Regulate the Granting of Leaves of Absence and Other Allowances to the Private Secretary to the Governor-General and the Private Secretaries to the Members of the Philippine Commission in the Same Manner as If Said Private Secretaries, as Such, Were Members of the Classified Civil Service.
  7. 07Act 1795An Act Authorizing the Compensation of Students in Industrial and Agricultural Schools for Work Done Therein Outside of Regular School Hours and Not Connected with Their Regular School Work.
  8. 08Act 1793An Act to Amend Act Numbered One Hundred and Eighty-Three by Providing a Method for Enforcing the Collection of the Land Tax in the City of Manila.
  9. 09Act 1792An Act Providing, with the Consent of the Secretary of War First Had, for a System of Money and Property Accountability for the Government of the Philippine Islands and Its Subordinate Blanches, and Repealing Acts Numbered Ninety, One Hundred and Forty-Five, Two Hundred and Fifteen, Three Hundred and Twenty-Eight. Nine Hundred and Nine, Fourteen Hundred and Two, and All Acts and Parts of Acts in Conflict Herewith.
  10. 10Act 1791An Act to Amend in Certain Respects Act Numbered Eighty-Two, Known as the Municipal Code.
  11. 11Act 1790An Act to Confirm Certain Rights and Franchises of the Banco Español-Filipino and to Amend Its Statutes.
  12. 12Act 1785An Act Making Additional Appropriations for Sundry Expenses of the Insular Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, Nineteen Hundred and Eight, and for Other Stated Purposes.
  13. 13Act 1786An Act to Amend Section Three of Act Numbered Fourteen Hundred and Seven by Authorizing the Executive Secretary to Regulate the Appointment and Salaries of Provincial Employees.
  14. 14Act 1787An Act Amending Sections Seventy-Four and One Hundred and Seven of Act Numbered Eleven Hundred and Eighty-Nine, as Amended.
  15. 15Act 1788An Act to Amend Act Numbered Sixty-Three, Entitled "an Act Prescribing the Method to Be Adopted in the Construction of Laws, by Providing a Method to Be Adopted in the Construction of Laws Which May Be Passed by the Philippine Legislature.
  16. 16Act 1789An Act to Authorize the Governor-General to Raise the Position of Superintendent of the Information Division, Bureau of Constabulary, to the Rank, Pay, and Allowances of Lieutenant-Colonel and Assistant Director of Constabulary.
  17. 17Act 1784An Act Appropriating the Sum of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pesos, from the Funds Realized from the Sale of Public-Improvement Bonds Authorized by Act Numbered Fourteen Hundred and Forty-Four, for Certain Public Works and Permanent Improvements of the Insular Government.
  18. 18Act 1780An Act to Regulate the Importation, Acquisition, Possession Use, and Transfer of Firearms, and to Prohibit the Possession of Same Except in Compliance with the Provisions of This Act.
  19. 19Act 1781An Act to Amend Section Twenty-Seven of Act Numbered Three Hundred and Fifty-Five, Entitled "an Act to Constitute the Customs Service of the Philippine Archipelago and to Provide for the Administration Thereof," as Amended, by Providing for the Remission of Duties on Importations of the Value of Less Than One Dollar.
  20. 20Act 1782An Act to Provide for the Establishment of Manufacturing Bonded Warehouses.
  21. 21Act 1783An Act Appropriating the Sum of Two Hundred Thousand Pesos for the Construction and Improvement of Permanent Roads and Bridges in the Provinces of the Philippine Islands.
  22. 22Act 1779An Act to Create a Board for the Regulation of Rates Chargeable by Public-Service Corporations in the Philippine Islands, and for Other Purposes.
  23. 23Act 1778An Act Amending Sections Numbered Eighty and Eighty-Eight of Act Numbered One Hundred and Ninety, Providing a Code of Procedure in Civil Actions and Special Proceedings in the Philippine Islands, as Amended.
  24. 24Act 1773An Act to Provide for the Public Prosecution of the Crimes of Adulterio, Estupro, Rapto, Violacion, Calumnia, and Injuria, to Abolish the Right of Pardon by the Aggrieved Party in Such Cases, to Provide for a Special Civil Action for Damages Therein, and for Other Purposes.
  25. 25Act 1774An Act to Amend Act Numbered Eight Hundred and Fifty-Four, as Amended, by Authorizing the Extension of the Period Within Which Returning Government Students Shall Take a Civil-Service Examination.
  26. 26Act 1775An Act Authorizing the Insular Collector of Customs to Clear Foreign Vessels for the Ports of Legaspi and Tabaco.
  27. 27Act 1776An Act Amending Act Numbered Eighty-Three and Requiring Copies of the Minutes of Provincial Boards to Be Forwarded to the Executive Secretary.
  28. 28Act 1777An Act Authorizing the Governor-General to Close, by Executive Order, Certain Ports of Entry, and to Reopen the Same Ports in Like Manner When the Public Interests So Require.
  29. 29Act 1772An Act to Amend Section Forty-Four of Act Numbered Eighty-Three, as Amended, and Section Sixty-Five of Act Numbered Thirteen Hundred and Ninety-Seven, as Amended, by Providing That Conventions or Meetings of Municipal and Township Presidents Shall Be Called in the Discretion of the Provincial Boards, with Certain Limitations, and to Repeal Acts Numbered Four Hundred and Twenty-Five and Five Hundred and Twenty-One.
  30. 30Act 1771An Act to Amend Section Five of Act Numbered Fourteen Hundred and Fifty-Eight, Requiring Receipts from Municipal Cemeteries to Be Deposited in the Municipal Treasury as a Special Fund to Be Spent upon the Cemetery, by Providing That Any Surplus in Said Fund May Be Expended for General Municipal Purposes.
  31. 31Act 1770An Act to Amend Section Eight of Act Numbered Six Hundred and Nineteen, Entitled "an Act to Promote Good Order and Discipline in the Philippines Constabulary," by Including Under the Penalty Therein Provided Noncommissioned Officers or Acting Noncommissioned Officers in Charge of a Relief on Post Who Are Found Sleeping on Duty.
  32. 32Act 1767An Act Making Permanent Continuing Annual Appropriations to Encourage the Production of Tobacco and to Protect the Interests of the Tobacco-Manufacturing Industries of the Philippine Islands by Providing Bounties for the Growers of Leaf Tobacco, and for Other Purposes.
  33. 33Act 1768An Act to Amend Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Eighty-Two, Known as "the Election Law," as Amended by Acts Numbered Seventeen Hundred and Nine and Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-Six, by Disqualifying Habitual Users of Opium from Holding Provincial or Municipal Offices.
  34. 34Act 1769An Act Amending Act Numbered Thirteen Hundred and Ninety- Six, Entitled "the Special Provincial Government Act," by Authorizing- Provincial Boards to Grant Licenses for Collecting Edible Birds' Nests and to Make Regulations to Prevent the Extermination of the Birds That Build Such Nests.
  35. 35Act 1765An Act to Amend Act Numbered One Hundred and Eighty-Three, Entitled ''an Act to Incorporate the City of Manila," as Amended, by Providing That Appropriations for the Government of Said City Shall Be Made by the Municipal Board, Subject to the Approval of the Governor-General, and for Other Purposes.
  36. 36Act 1766An Act Amending Section Four of Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Forty-Five by Requiring Fees Formerly Collectible by Provincial Secretaries to Be Hereafter Deposited in Provincial Treasuries.
  37. 37Act 1764An Act Providing for the Payment of Fees in Criminal Proceedings, Appropriating the Sum of Seventy-Five Thousand Pesos to Be Distributed by the Auditor Among the Provinces and the City of Manila in Proportion to the Respective Amounts by Them Paid on Account of Court Fees, and Repealing Section One of Act Numbered Three Hundred and Two and Acts Numbered Four Hundred and Four and Thirteen Hundred and Thirty-Five.
  38. 38Act 1763An Act to Extend the Time in Which Provinces and the City of Manila May Obtain the Benefits of Acts Numbered Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-Two and Sixteen Hundred and Ninety-Five, and Confirming the Action of Provincial Boards and of the Municipal Board of the City of Manila Which May Have Adopted or May Adopt S Increasing the Cedula Tax During the Time So Extended.
  39. 39Act 1762An Act Fixing the Maximum Rates Which May Be Charged by the Manila Suburban Railways Company.
  40. 40Act 1761An Act Gradually to Restrict and Regulate the Sale and Use of Opium Pending the Ultimate Prohibition of the Importation of Opium into the Philippine Islands in Whatever Form Except for Medicinal Purposes as Provided by the Act of Congress Approved March Third, Nineteen Hundred and Five, and Prohibiting Any Person from Having the Possession of Opium, Cocaine, or Alpha or Beta Cucaine in Any of Their Several Forms, or Any Derivative or Preparation of Any of Such Drugs or Substances, Except for Medicinal Purposes, and to Repeal Act Numbered Fourteen Hundred and Sixty-One, and for Other Purposes.
  41. 41Act 1759An Act Providing for a Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of Samar, Prescribing His Powers and Duties, Repealing Act Numbered Thirteen Hundred and Ninety-Eight, and for Other Purposes.
  42. 42Act 1760An Act to Prevent the Introduction into the Philippine Islands of Dangerous Communicable Animal Diseases, to Prevent the Spread of Such Diseases Within the Islands, and for Other Purposes.
  43. 43Act 1757An Act to Prohibit Gambling, to Repeal Article Eighteen Hundred and of the Civil Code and Articles Three Hundred and Forty-Three and Five Hundred and Seventy-Nine of the Penal Code.
  44. 44Act 1758An Act to Amend Section One (J) of Act Numbered Thirteen Hundred and Ten by Providing That Whenever Required by the Public Interests the Insular Government May Transport Mails, Passengers, and Freight Between Points Covered by Vessels Under Contract, and May Reimburse the Contracting Parties Therefor, Except in the Case of Special Trips for Inspection and Other Purely Governmental Purposes.
  45. 45Act 1755An Act to Prohibit the Disturbance of the Philippine Commission, the Philippine Assembly, or of Any Provincial Board or Municipal or Township Council; to Punish Disorderly Conduct in the Immediate View or Presence of Said Bodies; to Punish the Fraudulent Altering of the Draft of Any Bill, , Ordinance, or Act Pending Before or Enacted by Any Such Body or the Philippine Legislature; to Compel the Attendance of Witnesses and the Production of Evidence Before the Philippine Commission or Philippine Assembly, or Before Any Committee of Either or Both Said Bodies, and for Other Purposes.
  46. 46Act 1754An Act to Prohibit the Forging, Counterfeiting, Altering, or Fraudulent Making of Obligations and Securities of the United States or of the Philippine Islands, or of the Circulating Notes Issued by Any Banking Association Authorized Under the Laws of the United States or of the Philippine Islands; to Prohibit the Using of Plates to Print Notes Without Authority, the Passing, Selling, and Concealing of Forged Obligations, the Taking of Impressions of Tools, Implements, and So Forth, the Unlawful Possession of Such Impressions, the Buying, Selling, or Dealing in Forged Notes, Bonds, and So Forth, the Secreting or Removing of Tools or Material Used for Printing Bonds, Notes, Stamps, and So Forth; to Prohibit the Counterfeiting of Gold and Silver Coin, the Counterfeiting of Minor Coins, the Mutilation of Coins, the Debasement of Coinage, the Making or Uttering of Coin in Resemblance of Money, and Making or Issuing Devices of Minor Coins; to Prohibit the Forging or Counterfeiting of Notes, Bonds, Securities, or Bank Notes of Foreign Governments, or the Passing or Possession of Such Forged or Counterfeited Bonds, Notes, Securities, or Bank Notes; the Unlawful Possession of or Printing from Plates of Foreign Governments or Banks; to Prohibit Using the Mails with Intent to Defraud, or Mailing Offers to Sell Counterfeit Money, and So Forth; to Prohibit the Counterfeiting or Manufacture of Dies, Molds, and So Forth, Used for Making Money; to Prohibit Using Advertisements Similar to Coins; to Authorize Seizure, Forfeiture, and Disposition of Counterfeits of Obligations of the United States, Philippine Islands, or Foreign Governments, and for Other Purposes.
  47. 47Act 1756An Act to Declare October Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth of 'the Year Nineteen Hundred and Seven Public Holidays in Honor of the Visit of the Secretary of War and the Formal Opening of the Philippine Assembly.
  48. 48Act 1753An Act Declaring All of the Territory Comprised in the Island of Siquijor a Subprovince of Oriental Negros, and for Other Purposes.
  49. 49Act 1752An Act to Amend Sections Four, Five, and Six of Act Numbered Fourteen Hundred and One, by Making It Unnecessary for the Provincial Board to Advertise for Bids for Building Any Public Work Costing Less Than One Thousand Pesos, or for Building or Repairing Any Road, and by Providing That the Provincial Board May Authorize, by , the Director of Public Works to Advertise for Bids and to Let Contracts for Any Provincial Public Works; and to Repeal Section Fifteen of Act Numbered Eighty-Three.
  50. 50Act 1751An Act to Provide for the Arrest and Return to Ship of Seamen Deserting; from Certain Merchant Vessels in the Philippine Islands; for the Adjudication by Consuls of Certain Disputes and for the Enforcement of Consular S in Such Cases: and Repealing Act Numbered Fourteen Hundred and Thirty-Nine.
  51. 51Act 1750An Act Making- Appropriation to Reimburse the Government of the City of Manila on Account of Expenditures Made in the Reconstruction of Walls Along the Banks of the Pasig River Below the Ayala Bridge.
  52. 52Act 1749An Act Making Appropriations for the Friar-Lands Bonds Sinking Fund Created by Act Numbered One Thousand and Thirty-Four.
  53. 53Act 1748An Act Authorizing the Adjustment of Provincial and Municipal Boundaries and Authorizing the Change of Capitals of Provinces and Subprovinces, as May Be Necessary from Time to Time to Serve the Public Convenience and Interest.
  54. 54Act 1747An Act Amending- Section Two of Act Numbered One Thousand and Fifty-Six by Extending the Provisions of Said Section to Judges of the Municipal Court of the City of Manila.
  55. 55Act 1746An Act to Provide for the Revocation, in Proper Cases, of Retail Liquor Dealers' Licenses and to Amend Acts Numbered Eighty-Two One Hundred and Eighty-Three, Thirteen Hundred and Ninety-Seven, and Eleven Hundred and Eighty-Nine Accordingly.
  56. 56Act 1745An Act Transferring to the Account of General Funds of the Insular Treasury the Loan of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pesos Granted to the Government of the City of Manila by Act Numbered Thirteen Hundred and Sixty from the Proceeds of the Sale of Public-Improvements Bonds of the Insular Government, and Reimbursing in a Corresponding Amount the Account of Said Bond Proceeds, and Appropriating the Money Reverting to the Insular Treasury by Reason of the Repayment of Said Loan for the Improvement of Public Squares, Parks, and Plazas of the City of Manila, and for Other Purposes.
  57. 57Act 1744An Act to Amend Section Seventeen of Act Numbered Fourteen Hundred and Fifty-Nine, Entitled "the Corporation Law," by Providing That No Increase of Capital Stock Shall Be Made Unless the Same Proportion Thereof Shall Have Been Subscribed and Paid in as Required on the Formation and Organization of the Corporation, and for Other Purposes.
  58. 58Act 1743An Act to Provide That the Annual Tax on the Assessed Value of Real Estate in the City of Manila for the Year Nineteen Hundred and Eight Shall Be One and One-Half Per Centum Thereof.
  59. 59Act 1741An Act to Amend Act Numbered One Hundred and Thirty-Six, as Amended by Providing a Salary of Two Thousand Four Hundred Pesos Per Annum for the Justices of the Peace of Cebu and Iloilo, and by Allowing Each of Said Justices Two Clerks to Be Paid by the Respective Municipalities.
  60. 60Act 1742An Act Providing for the Adjustment of Charges Made by the Bureau of Prisons Against the Several Provinces and the City of Manila for the Maintenance of Prisoners.
  61. 61Act 1740An Act Providing' for the Punishment of Public Officers and Employees Who Fail or Refuse to Account for Public Funds or Property or Who Make Personal Use of Such Funds or Property, or Any Part Thereof, or Who Misappropriate the Same, or Any Part Thereof, or Who Are Guilty of Any Malversation with Reference to Such Funds or Property, or Who Through Abandonment, Fault, or Negligence Permit Any Other Person to Abstract, Misappropriate, or Make Personal Use of the Same.
  62. 62Act 1739An Act Creating the "Fidelity-Bond Premium Fund," Providing for Assurance Against Losses, Shortages, and Defalcations by Officers or Employees Accountable for Public Funds and Public Property, and for Other Purposes.
  63. 63Act 1738An Act to Amend Section Twenty-Four of Act Numbered Five Hundred and Twenty by Providing for Ensigns for Vessels Operating Under the Contracts Authorized by Act Numbered Thirteen Hundred and Ten and Act Numbered Seventeen Hundred and Fifteen.
  64. 64Act 1736An Act Appropriating the Sum of One Hundred Thousand Pesos for the Purpose of Establishing a Reimbursable Fund for the Promotion of Agricultural Pursuits upon Certain Haciendas and Parcels of Land, Commonly Known as "Friar Lands," and for the Extension of the Cultivated Area Thereof.
  65. 65Act 1737An Act to Amend Section One of Act Numbered Fourteen Amending Nil. Hundred and Eleven, Entitled "an Act for the Purpose of Maintaining the Parity of the Philippine Currency in Accordance with the Provisions of Sections One and Six of the Act of Congress Approved March Second, Nineteen Hundred and Three, by Prohibiting the Exportation from the Philippine Islands of Philippine Silver Coins, and for Other Purposes," by Providing That the Prohibition Therein Contained Shall Not Apply to Sums of Twenty-Five Pesos or Less of the New Coins Authorized by Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Sixty-Four and Carried by Passengers Leaving the Philippine Islands.
  66. 66Act 1735An Act Authorizing the Governor-General to Execute a Concessionary Grant or Contract for a Railway Line to Baguio, Province of Benguet, and for Other Purposes.
  67. 67Act 1734An Act Amending Section Four of Act Numbered Fifty-Nine, Entitled "the Manila Liquor Licenses Act," as Amended, by Providing for Theater Liquor Licenses.
  68. 68Act 1731An Act to Reduce the Number of Municipalities in the Province of Albay from Twenty-Three, as Established by Act Numbered Fifteen Hundred and Fifty-Seven, to Twenty-One, by Consolidating the Present Municipalities of Albay, Daraga, and Legaspi into One Municipality.
  69. 69Act 1733An Act to Provide Fire Protection in Municipalities Having No Paid Fire Department.
  70. 70Act 1732An Act Providing That Persons Sentenced to Fine for Criminal Offenses Made Punishable by Acts of the Philippine Commission or for Violation of the Ordinances of the City of Manila, Who Shall Fail to Satisfy the Fine Imposed, Shall Be Subject to Subsidiary Imprisonment, and Providing That the Status of a Prisoner Under Subdivision (D) of Section One and Subdivision (C) of Section Three of Act Numbered Seventeen Hundred and Three Shall Be Determined by the Subsidiary Imprisonment in Case the Sentence Imposes a Fine Only, and Repealing Part of Section Forty of Act Numbered One Hundred and Eighty-Three.