Section 1. From and after
the first day of April, nineteen hundred and one, no internal-revenue
taxes shall be collected from the inhabitants of the Province of
Benguet.
Sec. 2. All internal-revenue taxes collected from
the Province of Benguet from and after the first day of January,
nineteen hundred and one, shall be paid to the governor of that
province out of the Insular Treasury, to be by him deposited in the
treasury of the province, and to be held as other funds for provincial
purposes.
Sec. 3. The Collector of Internal Revenue shall
certify to the Military Governor the amount of taxes collected in the
Province of Benguet from the first of January, nineteen hundred and
one, until the first day of April, nineteen hundred and one, and
warrant shall issue in favor of the governor of Benguet for the amount
so certified, in accordance with law.
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.
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