[ Act No. 3697, November 20, 1930 ]

AN ACT TO AMEND SUBSECTION (G) OF SECTION TWELVE HUNDRED AND THREE OF ACT NUMBERED TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, KNOWN AS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AS AMENDED BY ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE, AND SECTION TWO OF SAID ACT NUMBERED THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE, PROVIDING THAT SAILING VESSELS OF THIRTY-FIVE GROSS TONS OR OVER BUT LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY GROSS TONS, SHALL BE COMMANDED BY DULY LICENSED PATRONS IN THE MINOR COASTWISE TRADE.

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. Subsection (g) of section twelve hundred and three of the Administrative Code, as amended by section one of Act Numbered Thirty-six hundred and thirty-five, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"(g) Every sailing vessel or sailing vessel with auxiliary engine of one hundred and fifty gross tons or over, shall carry as officers one patron in the major coastwise trade, or one first mate, as master, and every sailing vessel of thirty-five gross tons or over, but less than one hundred and fifty gross tons, with or without auxiliary engine, shall be commanded by a patron in the minor coastwise trade."

SEC. 2. Section two of Act Numbered Thirty-six hundred and thirty-five is hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 2. Persons who before the approval of this Act have served for a total period of not less than two years as patrons on sailing vessels of from thirty-five to less than one hundred and fifty gross tons, without the proper patron's certificate and who can read and write English, Spanish, or any native dialect, may, upon producing a certificate or certificates to that effect signed by the outfitter or owner or outfitters or owners of such sailing vessels and duly acknowledged before a notary public or other person authorized by law to administer oaths, be allowed to continue acting as patrons without the requisites of subsection (e) of section eleven hundred and ninety-one of the Administrative Code, as amended by Act Numbered Thirty-four hundred and twenty-six, and may obtain the certificate of patron in the minor coastwise trade upon application and payment of fees."

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its approval.Approved, November 20, 1930.

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