[ Act No. 179, July 24, 1901 ]

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE REGISTRATION AND CARRIAGE OF THE OFFICIAL MAIL OF CERTAIN PUBLIC OFFICIALS, WITHOUT CHARGE, FROM ONE POINT IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS TO ANOTHER.

By authority of the President of the United States, be it enacted by the United States Philippine Commission, that:SECTION 1. The official mail of all Insular and provincial officials shall he received and carried free of charge by the Postal Department, and such mail shall he registered by the Postal Department upon request of any such official, without charge, and carried from one point in the Philippine Islands to another.SEC. 2. The mail above referred to shall be received and carried only when plainly marked with the words "Official Mail," under which the official sending same shall affix his official signature in writing or by stamp.SEC. 3. Any person franking any mail under sections one and two which is not official in its character shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not exceeding three hundred dollars.SEC. 4. 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.Enacted, July 24, 1901.

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