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ACT NO. 218
ACT NO. 218 - AN ACT CREATING A
BUREAU OF PUBLIC LANDS
Section 1.There is
hereby created, under the Department of the Interior, an Insular Bureau
of Public Lands, which shall have charge of all of the public domain of
the Government of the Philippine Islands, except so far as control
thereof may be necessary to the functions of the Forestry and Mining
Bureaus, which shall not be affected by this Act. Under the supervision
of the Bureau of Public Lands shall be executed all instruments for the
sale or conveyance of the public lands when authorized by law.
Sec. 2.There shall be a chief of the Bureau of
Public Lands, who shall receive an annual salary of three thousand two
hundred dollars, payable monthly in money of the United States.
Sec. 3.The duties of the Chief of the Bureau of
Public Lands shall be —
1.To collect and safely keep all existing Spanish
records relating to the public lands or their conveyances;
2.After due consideration, to submit to the
Philippine Commission a plan for the organization of the Bureau framed
as nearly as may be after the organization of the Public Land Office in
the United States, with such variations as may be required by differing
conditions, having regard to the former land system under the Spanish
sovereignty, and also a plan for the general survey of the public lands;
3.To supervise the surveys of all public lands that
may be required by law;
4.To cause an investigation to be made as to the
extent and quality of the public lands in all the islands of the
Archipelago, and to report the same to the head of the Department;
5.To discharge all other duties in connection with
the public lands assigned to him by the Secretary of the Interior.
Sec. 4.The public good requiring the speedy
enactment of this bill, 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, September 2, 1901.
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