Full Title
AN ACT EMPOWERING THE MILITARY GOVERNOR AND HIS PROPER SUBORDINATES TO ORGANIZE TOWN GOVERNMENTS NOT ALREADY ORGANIZED IN PROVINCES TO WHICH THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT ACT HAS NOT BEEN EXTENDED.
Congress
Philippine Commission
Date of Approval
March 8, 1901

Other Details

Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance
Legislative Issuance Type
ACT

Full Text of Issuance

[ Act No. 100, March 09, 1901 ]

AN ACT EMPOWERING THE MILITARY GOVERNOR AND HIS PROPER SUBORDINATES TO ORGANIZE TOWN GOVERNMENTS NOT ALREADY ORGANIZED IN PROVINCES TO WHICH THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT ACT HAS NOT BEEN EXTENDED.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. In all provinces to which the provisions of the Provincial Government Act have not been extended, the Military Governor, or his proper subordinates, shall have power to organize town governments not already organized under General Order Number Forty, series of nineteen hundred, Office of the Military Governor of the Philippine Islands, or the Municipal Code, in accordance with the provision of General Order Number Forty-three, series of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, Headquarters Division of the Philippines. Such organization shall be provisional and shall remain in force only until the Commission shall establish a municipal government in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Municipal Code.SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its passage.Enacted, March 9, 1901.

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