Section 1.
Article one of Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred and eight is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"Art. 1. Definitions. — The following words when used
in these articles shall be construed in the sense indicated in this
article, unless the context shows that a different sense is intended,
namely:
"(a) The word "officer" shall be construed to refer
to a commissioned officer, including a commissioned member of the nurse
corps;
"(b) The word "soldier" shall be construed as
including a noncommissioned officer, a private, or any other enlisted
man;
"(c) The word "company" shall be understood as
including a troop, battery, or commissioned vessels;
"(d) The word "battalion" shall be understood as
including a squadron,r or naval."
Sec. 2. Article four of the same Act as amended by
Republic Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-two, is hereby further
amended to read as follows:
"Art. 4. Who may serve on courts-martial. — All
officers in active duty in the Armed Forces of the Philippines or in
the Philippine Constabulary shall be competent to serve on
courts-martial for the trial of any person who may lawfully be brought
before such courts for trial.
"Enlisted persons in the active military service of the Armed Forces of
the Philippines or of the Philippine Constabulary shall be competent to
serve on general and special courts-martial for the trial of enlisted
persons or trainees when requested in writing by the accused at any
time prior to the convening of the court: Provided, That the competency
of enlisted men to serve shall be subject to the conditions prescribed
in this and other articles, and in no case shall the number of enlisted
men detailed exceed one-third of the total membership of the court.
"When appointing courts-martial, the appointing authority shall detail
as members thereof those officers of the command and, when eligible and
available, those enlisted persons of the command who, in his opinion,
are best qualified for the duty by reason of age, training, experience,
and judicial temperament; and officers and enlisted persons having less
than two years' service shall not, if it can be avoided without
manifest injury to the service, be appointed as members of
courts-martial in excess of the minority membership thereof. No person
shall sit as member of a general or special court-martial when he is
the accuser or a witness for the prosecution."
Sec. 3. Articles five and six of the same Act are
hereby amended by deleting from each of said articles the word
"officers" and substituting therefor the word "members."
Sec. 4. Article eight of the same Act as amended
by Republic Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-two, is hereby further
amended to read as follows:
"Art. 8. General courts-martials. — The President of
the Philippines, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the
Philippines, the Chief of Constabulary and, when empowered by the
President, the commanding officer of a major command or task force, the
commanding officer of a division, the commanding officer of a military
area, the superintendent of the Military Academy, the commanding
officer of a separate brigade or body of troops may appoint general
courts-martial; but when such commander is the accuser or the
prosecutor of the person or persons to be tried, the court shall be
appointed by superior competent authority.
"The authority appointing a general court-martial shall detail as one
of the members thereto a member of the bar, hereafter called law
member, who shall be an officer of the Judge Advocate General's Service
or an officer of some other branch of the service who is a member of
the bar and certified by the Judge Advocate General to be qualified for
such detail. No general court-martial shall receive evidence or vote
upon its findings or sentence in the absence of the law member
regularly detailed. The law member, in addition to his duties as a
member, shall perform such other duties as the President may by
regulations prescribe."
Sec. 5. Article nine of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Art. 9. Special courts-martial. — The commanding
officer of a major command, task force, military area, or division and,
when empowered by the President, the commanding officer of a garrison,
fort, camp, brigade, regiment, detached battalion or squadron, or other
detached command or place, zone or commissioned vessel where troops are
on duty may appoint special courts-martial; but when any such
commanding officer is the accuser or the prosecutor of the person or
persons to be tried, the court shall be appointed by superior
authority, and may in any case be appointed by superior authority when
by the latter deemed desirable."
Sec. 6. Article ten of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Art. 10. Summary courts-martial. — The commanding
officer of a garrison, fort, camp, or other place where troops are on
duty, and the commanding officer of a regiment, commissioned vessel,
detached battalion, detached company, or other detachment may appoint
summary courts-martial; but such summary courts-martial may in any case
be appointed by superior authority when by the latter deemed desirable:
Provided, That when but one officer is present with a command he shall
be the summary courts-martial of that command and shall hear and
determine cases brought before him."
Sec. 7. Article twelve of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Art. 12. General courts-martial. — General
courts-martial shall have power to try any person subject to military
law for any crime or offense made punishable by these articles, and any
other person who by law of war is subject to trial by military
tribunals: Provided, That no officer shall be brought to trial before a
general court-martial appointed by the Superintendent of the Military
Academy: Provided, further, That general courts-martial shall have the
power to adjudge any punishment authorized by law or the customs of the
service, including a bad-conduct discharge, and that in the Philippine
Navy, general courts-martial may impose deprivation of liberty on shore
as a punishment and in imposing a sentence of confinement may include
in the sentence solitary confinement not exceeding thirty days, or
solitary confinement on diminished rations not exceeding thirty days:
And provided, further, That the officer competent to appoint a general
court-martial for the trial of any particular case may, when in his
judgment the interest of the service shall so require, cause any case
to be tried by a special court-martial notwithstanding the limitations
upon the jurisdiction of the special court-martial as to offenses set
out in article thirteen; but the limitations upon jurisdiction as to
persons and upon punishing power set out in said article shall be
observed."
Sec. 8. Article thirteen of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Art. 13. Special courts-martial. — Special
courts-martial shall have the power to try any person subject to
military law for any crime or offense not capital made punishable by
these articles. Special courts-martial shall not have the power to
adjudge dishonorable discharge or dismissal or confinement in excess of
six months, nor to adjudge forfeiture of more than two-thirds pay per
month for a period of not exceeding six months. Subject to approval of
the sentence by an officer exercising general court-martial
jurisdiction and subject to appellate review by the Judge Advocate
General, a special court-martial may adjudge a bad-conduct discharge in
addition to any other authorized punishment: Provided, That a
bad-conduct discharge shall not be adjudged by a special court-martial
unless a complete record of the proceedings of and testimony admitted
by the Court is taken in the case: And provided, further, That in the
Philippine Navy, special courts-martial may also impose deprivation of
liberty on shore as a punishment and in imposing a sentence of
confinement may include in the sentence solitary confinement not
exceeding thirty days, or solitary confinement on diminished rations
not exceeding thirty days."
Sec. 9. Article fourteen of the same Act as
amended by Republic Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-two, is hereby
further amended to read as follows:
"Art. 14. Summary courts-martial. — Summary
courts-martial shall have power to try any person subject to military
law, except an officer, a cadet, a flying cadet or probationary second
lieutenant, for any crime or offense not capital made punishable by
these article: Provided, That non-commissioned officers shall not, if
they object thereto, be brought to trial before a summary court-martial
without the authority of the officer competent to bring them to trial
before a special courts-martial: Provided, further, That the President
may, by regulations, except from the jurisdiction of summary
courts-martial any class or classes of persons subject to military
law.
"Summary courts-martial shall not have power to adjudge confinement in
excess of one month, restriction to limits for more than three months
or forfeiture or detention of more than two-thirds of one months' pay:
Provided, That in the Philippine Navy, summary courts-martial may also
impose deprivation of liberty on shore as a punishment and in imposing
a sentence of confinement may include in the sentence solitary
confinement not exceeding fifteen days, or solitary confinement on
diminished rations not exceeding fifteen days."
Section 10. Article sixteen of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Art. 16. Persons in the military service, how
triable. — Officers shall be triable by general and special
courts-martial, and in no case shall an officer, when it can be
avoided, be tried by officers inferior to him in rank. No enlisted
person may sit as a member of a court-martial for the trial of another
enlisted person or trainee who is assigned to the same company."
Section 11. Article thirty of the same Act is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Art. 30. Method of voting. — Voting by members of a
general or special court-martial upon questions of challenge, on the
findings, and on the sentence shall be by secret written ballot. The
junior member of the court shall in each case count the votes, which
count shall be checked by the president, who shall forthwith announce
the result of the ballot to the members of the court. The law member of
a general court-martial, or the president of a special court-martial,
shall rule in open court upon interlocutory questions, other than
challenge, arising during the proceedings: Provided, That if any member
objects to a ruling of the law member of a general court-martial upon a
motion for a finding of not guilty or on question of the accused's
sanity, or if any member objects to any ruling of the president of a
special court-martial as hereinabove provided, the court shall be
cleared and closed and the question decided by a majority vote, viva
voce, beginning with the junior in rank. A ruling made by the law
member of a general court-martial upon any interlocutory question other
than a motion for a finding of not guilty, or the accused's sanity,
shall be final and shall constitute the ruling of the court; but the
law member in any case may consult with the court, in closed session,
before making a ruling and may change any ruling made at any time
during the trial. It shall be the duty of the law member of a general
court-martial or the president of a special court-martial, before a
vote is taken, to advise the court that the accused must be presumed to
be innocent until his guilt is established by legal and competent
evidence beyond a reasonable doubt and that in the case being
considered, if there is a reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the
accused, the doubt shall be resolved in the accused's favor and he
shall be acquitted; if there is a reasonable doubt as to the degree of
guilt, the findings must be in a lower degree as to which there is no
such doubt; that the burden of proof to establish the guilt of the
accused is upon the government."
Section 12. Article thirty-eight of the same Act as
amended by Republic Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-two, is hereby
further amended to read as follows:
"Art. 38. As to time. — Except for desertion, murder
or rape committed in time of war, or for mutiny or for war offenses, no
person subject to military law shall be liable to be tried or punished
by a court-martial for any crime or offense committed more than two
years before the arraignment of such person: Provided, That for
desertion in time of peace or for any crime or offense punishable under
article ninety-four and ninety- five of these articles, the period of
limitations upon trial and punishment by courts-martial shall be three
years from the time the offense was committed: Provided, further, That
the period of any absence of the accused from the jurisdiction of the
Philippines, and also any period during which by reason of some
manifest impediment the accused shall not have been amenable to
military justice, shall be excluded in computing the aforesaid periods
of limitations: And provided, also, That in any case of any offense the
trial of which in time of war shall be certified by the Secretary of
National Defense to be detrimental to the prosecution of the war or
inimical to the nation's security, the periods of limitations herein
provided for the trial of the said offense shall be extended to the
duration of the war and six months thereafter: Provided, finally, That
this article shall not have the effect to authorize the trial or
punishment for any crime or offense barred by the provisions of
existing law."
Section 13. Article forty-five of the same Act is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"Art. 45. Action by convening authority. — Under such
regulations as may be prescribed by the President, every record of
trial by general court-martial or military commission, or record of
trial by special court-martial in which a bad-conduct discharge has
been adjudged and approved by the authority appointing the court,
received by a reviewing or confirming authority shall be referred by
him, before he acts thereon, to his staff judge advocate or the Judge
Advocate General. No sentence of a court-martial shall be carried into
execution until the same shall have been approved by the officer
appointing the court or by the officer commanding for the time being:
Provided, That no sentence of a special courts-martial which includes a
bad-conduct discharge shall be carried into execution until, in
addition to the approval of the convening authority, the same shall
have been approved by an officer authorized to appoint a general
court-martial."
Section 14. Article fifty of the same Act as amended
by Republic Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-two, is hereby further
amended by (1) changing the title thereof so as to read: "Appellate
Review"; (2) deleting entirely from the said article the fourth
paragraph beginning with the words "When the President or any reviewing
or confirming authority disapproves or vacates a sentence the execution
of which has not heretofore been duly entered" and ending with the
words "to the Chief of Staff for the action of the President", and (3)
by amending the third paragraph thereof to read as follows:
"No authority shall order the execution of any other sentence of a
court-martial involving the penalty of death, dismissal not suspended,
dishonorable discharge not suspended, bad-conduct discharge not
suspended, or confinement in a penitentiary, unless and until the board
of review shall, with the approval of the Judge Advocate General, have
held the record of trial upon which such sentence is based legally
sufficient to support the sentence; except that the proper reviewing or
confirming authority may, upon his approval of a sentence involving
dishonorable discharge, bad-conduct discharge or confinement in a
penitentiary, order its execution if it is based solely upon findings
of guilty of a charge or charges and a specification or specifications
to which the accused has pleaded guilty. When the board of review, with
the approval of the Judge Advocate General, holds the record in a case
in which the order of execution has been withheld under the provisions
of this paragraph legally sufficient to support the findings and
sentence, the Judge Advocate General shall so advise the reviewing or
confirming authority from whom the record was received, who may
thereupon order the execution of the sentence. When in a case in which
the order of execution has been withheld under the provisions of this
paragraph, the board of review holds the record the trial legally
insufficient to support the findings or sentence, either in whole or in
part, or that errors of law have been committed injuriously affecting
the substantial rights of the accused, and the Judge Advocate General
concurs in such holding of the board of review, such findings and
sentence shall be vacated in whole or in part in accord with such
holding and the recommendations of the Judge Advocate General thereon,
and the record shall be transmitted through the proper channels to the
convening authority for a rehearing or such other action as may be
proper. In the event that the Judge Advocate General shall not concur
in the holding of the board of review, the Judge Advocate General shall
forward all the papers in the case, including the opinion of the board
of review and his dissent therefrom, directly to the Chief of Staff for
the action of the President, who may confirm the action of the
reviewing authority or confirming authority below, in whole or in part,
with or without remission, mitigation, or commutation, or may
disapprove, in whole or in part, any finding of guilty, and may
disapprove or vacate the sentence, in whole or in part."
Section 15. Two new articles, designated as article
fifty-A and article fifty-B, are hereby inserted between articles fifty
and fifty-one of the same Act, as amended, which shall read as follows:
"Art. 50-A. Rehearing. — When the President or any
reviewing or confirming authority disapproves or vacates a sentence the
execution of which has not heretofore been duly ordered, he may
authorize or direct a rehearing. Such rehearing shall take place before
a court composed of officers, or officers and enlisted men, not members
of the court which first heard the case. Upon such rehearing the
accused shall not be tried for any offense of which he was not found
guilty by the first court, and no sentence in excess of or more severe
than the original sentence shall be imposed unless the sentence be
based upon a finding of guilty of an offense not considered upon the
merits in the original proceedings: Provided, That such rehearing shall
be had in all cases where a finding and sentence have been vacated by
reason of the action of the board of review approved by the Judge
Advocate General holding the record of trial, legally insufficient to
support the findings or sentence, or errors of law have been committed
injuriously affecting the substantial rights of the accused unless in
accord with such action, and the recommendations of the Judge Advocate
General thereon, the findings or sentence are approved in part only, or
the record is returned for revision, or unless the case is dismissed by
order of the reviewing or confirming authority. After any such
rehearing had on the order of the President, the record of trial shall,
after examination by the board of review, be transmitted by the Judge
Advocate General, with the Board's opinion and his recommendations to
the Chief of Staff for the action of the President.
"Art. 50-B. Petition for new trial. — Under such
regulations as the President may prescribe, the Chief of Staff or the
Chief of Constabulary is authorized upon application of an accused
person, and upon good cause shown, in his discretion, to grant a new
trial, or to vacate a sentence, restore rights, privileges, and
property affected by such sentence, and substitute for a dismissal,
dishonorable discharge, or bad-conduct discharge previously executed a
form of discharge authorized for administrative issuance, in any
court-martial case in which application is made within one year after
final disposition of the case upon initial appellate review: Provided,
That with regard to cases involving offenses committed during World War
II, the application for new trial may be made within one year after
termination of the war, or after its final disposition upon initial
appellate review as herein provided, whichever is the later: Provided,
That only one such application for a new trial may be entertained with
regard to any one case: And provided, further, That all action by the
Chief of Staff or the Chief of Constabulary pursuant to this article,
and all proceedings, findings, and sentences on new trials under this
article, as approved, reviewed or confirmed under articles forty-five,
forty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight and fifty, and all dismissals and
discharges carried into execution pursuant to sentences adjudged on new
trials and approved, reviewed, or confirmed, shall be final and
conclusive; and orders publishing the action of the Chief of Staff or
the Chief of Constabulary or the proceedings on new trial, and all
action taken pursuant to such proceedings, shall be binding upon all
departments, courts, agencies, and officers of the Government of the
Philippines."
Section 16. Article fifty-two of the same Act is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"Art. 52. Suspension of sentence. — The authority
competent to order the execution of the sentence of a court-martial
may, at the time of the approval of such sentence, or at any time
thereafter, while the sentence is being served, suspend the execution,
in whole or in part, of any such sentence as does not extend to death,
and may restore the person under sentence to duty during such
suspension. A sentence, or any part thereof, which has been so
suspended may be remitted, in whole or in part, by the officer who
suspended the same except in cases of persons confined in the
penitentiaries, by his successor in office, or by any officer
exercising appropriate court-martial jurisdiction over the command in
which the person under sentence may be serving at the time, and,
subject to the foregoing exceptions, the same authority may vacate the
order of suspension at any time and order the execution of the sentence
or the suspended part thereof in so far as the same shall not have been
previously remitted, subject to like power of suspension. The death or
honorable discharge of a person under a suspended sentence shall
operate as a complete remission of any unexecuted or unremitted part of
such sentence: Provided, That no sentence approved or confirmed by the
President shall be suspended by any other authority."
Section 17. A new article, to be designated as
Article eighty-eight-A, is hereby inserted between Articles
eighty-eight and eighty-nine of the same Act, which shall read as
follows:
"Art. 88-A. Unlawfully influencing action of court. —
Any authority appointing a general, special, or summary court-martial,
or any other commanding officer, who shall censure, reprimand, or
admonish such court, or any member thereof, with respect to the
findings or sentence adjudged by the court, or with respect to any
other exercise, by such court or any member thereof, of its or his
judicial responsibility, shall be punished as a court-martial may
direct. Any person subject to military law who shall attempt to coerce
or unlawfully influence the action of a court-martial or any military
court or commission, or any member thereof, in reaching the findings or
sentence in any case, or the action of an appointing or reviewing or
confirming authority with respect to his judicial act, shall be
punished as a court-martial may direct."
Section 18. Article ninety-five of the same Act as
amended by Republic Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-two, is hereby
further amended to read as follows:
"Art. 95. Frauds against the Government. — Any person
subject to military law who makes or causes to be made any claim
against the Government or any officer thereof, knowing such claim to be
false or fraudulent; or
"Who presents or causes to be presented to any person in the civil or
military service thereof, for approval or payment, any claim against
the Government, or any officer thereof, knowing such claim to be false
or fraudulent; or
"Who enters into any agreement or conspiracy to defraud the Government
by obtaining, ording others to obtain the allowance or payment of any
false of fraudulent claim; or
"Who, for the purpose of obtaining, ording others to obtain the
approval, allowance, or payment of any claim against the Government or
against any officer thereof, makes or uses, procures, or advises the
making or use of, any writing or other paper knowing the same to
contain any false or fraudulent statements; or
"Who, for the purpose of obtaining, ording others to obtain, the
approval, allowance, or payment of any claim against the Government or
any officer thereof, maker or procures, or advises the making of, any
oath to any fact or to any writing or other paper knowing such oath to
be false; or
"Who, for the purpose of obtaining, ording others to obtain, the
approval, allowance, or payment of any claim against the Government or
any officer thereof, forges or counterfeits, or procures or advises the
forging or counterfeiting of any signature upon any writing or other
paper, or uses; or procures, or advises the use of any such signature,
knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited; or
"Who, having charge, possession, custody or control of any money or
other property of the Government furnished or intended for the military
service thereof, knowingly delivers, or causes to be delivered, to any
person having authority to receive the same, any amount thereof less
than that for which he receives a certificate or receipt; or
"Who, being authorized to make or deliver any paper certifying the
receipt of any property of the Government furnished or intended for the
military service thereof, makes or delivers to any person such writing,
without having full knowledge of the truth of the statements therein
contained and with intent to defraud the Government; or
"Who steals, embezzles, knowingly or wilfully misappropriates, applies
to his own use or benefit or wrongfully or knowingly sells or disposes
of any ordinance, arms, equipment, ammunition, clothing, subsistence
stores, money, or other property of the Government furnished or
intended for the military service thereof; or
"Who knowingly purchases or receives in pledge for any obligation or
indebtedness from any soldier, officer, or other person who is part of
or employed in the Armed Forces of the Philippines or in the Philippine
Constabulary, any ordinance, arms, equipment, ammunition, clothing,
subsistence stores, or other property of the Government, such soldier,
officer, or other person not having lawful right to sell or pledge the
same; or
"Who enters into any agreement or conspires to commit any of the
offenses aforesaid;
"Shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by fine or imprisonment, or
by such other punishment as a court-martial may adjudge, or by any or
all of said penalties. And if any person, being guilty of any of the
offenses aforesaid while in the service of the Armed Forces of the
Philippines or of the Philippine Constabulary receives his discharge or
is dismissed from the service, he shall continue to be liable to be
arrested and held for trial and sentence by a court-martial in the same
manner and to the same extent as if he had not received such discharge
nor been dismissed. And if any officer, being guilty, while in the
service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, or of the Philippine
Constabulary of embezzlement of ration savings, post exchange, company,
or other like funds, or of embezzlement of money or other property
intrusted to his charge by an enlisted man or men, receives his
discharge, or is dismissed, or is dropped from the rolls, he shall
continue to be liable to be arrested and held for trial and sentence by
a court-martial in the same manner and to the same extent as if he had
not been so discharged, dismissed, or dropped from the rolls."
Section 19. Article one hundred and five of the same
Act as amended by Republic Act Numbered Two hundred and forty-two, is
hereby further amended to read as follows:
"Art. 105. Disciplinary powers of commanding
officers. — Under such regulations as the President may prescribe, the
commanding officer of any detachment, company, squadron, commissioned
vessel, or higher command may, for minor offenses, impose disciplinary
punishments upon persons of his command without the intervention of a
court-martial, unless the accused demands trial by court-martial.
"The disciplinary punishments authorized by this article may include
admonition, reprimand, withholding or privileges for not exceeding one
week, extra fatigue for not exceeding one week, restriction to certain
specified limits for not exceeding one week, hard labor without
confinement for not exceeding one week, or any combination of such
punishments for not exceeding one week, but shall not include
forfeiture of pay or confinement under guard; except that any officer
exercising general court-martial jurisdiction may, under the provisions
of this article, also impose upon an officer of his command below the
grade of brigadier general a forfeiture of not more than one-half of
such officer's monthly pay for three months: Provided, That in the
Philippine Navy, a commander of a commissioned vessel may also impose
as a punishment on a commissioned officer, suspension from duty, arrest
or confinement such suspension, arrest or confinement not to continue
longer than ten days: And provided, further, That under this article no
commander of a commissioned vessel shall impose on any petty officer or
person of inferior rating for a single offense, or at any one time, any
other than one of the following punishments:
"First. Confinement not exceeding ten days.
"Second. Solitary confinement, on diminished rations, not exceeding
five days.
"Third. Solitary confinement not exceeding seven days.
"Fourth. Deprivation of liberty on shore.
"A person punished under authority of this article, who deems his
punishments unjust or disproportionate to the offense, may through the
proper channel, appeal to the next superior authority, but may in the
meantime be required to undergo the punishment adjudged. The commanding
officer who imposes the punishment, his successor in command and
superior authority, shall have the power to mitigate or remit any
unexecuted portion of the punishment. The imposition and enforcement of
disciplinary punishment under authority of this article for any act or
omission shall not be a bar to trial by court-martial for a crime or
offense growing out of the same act or omission; but the fact that a
disciplinary punishment has been enforced may be shown by the accused
upon trial, and when so shown shall be considered in determining the
measures of punishment to be adjudged in the event of a finding of
guilty."
Sec. 20. Article one hundred and nine of the same
Act as amended by Republic Act Numbered two hundred and forty-two, is
hereby further amended to read as follows:
"Art. 109. Soldiers — Separation from the service. —
No enlisted man, in the military service of the Philippines or in the
Philippine Constabulary shall be discharged from said service without a
certificate of discharge, signed by a field officer of the regiment or
other organization to which the enlisted man belongs or by the
commanding officer when no such field officer is present, and no
enlisted man shall be discharged from said service before his term of
service has expired, except by order of the President, the Chief of
Staff, the Chief of Constabulary, by sentence of a general
court-martial or by sentence of bad-conduct discharge of a special
court-martial."
Sec. 21. The words "a member of the nurse corps",
or "members of the nurse corps" appearing in any article of
Commonwealth Act Numbered Four hundred and eight, as amended except
Article one as herein amended, shall be and are hereby deleted.
Sec. 22. Article forty-three of the same act is
hereby repealed.
Sec. 23. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Approved: June 14, 1950
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