[ Act No. 1484, May 09, 1906 ]

AN ACT AMENDING THE LAND REGISTRATION ACT, AS AMENDED BY SECTION FOUR OF ACT NUMBERED ELEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHT, SO AS TO FIX THE TIME WITHIN WHICH APPEALS AND BILLS OF EXCEPTIONS MUST BE PERFECTED IN THE COURT OF LAND REGISTRATION.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. Section fourteen of Act Numbered Four hundred and ninety-six, entitled "The Land Registration Act," as amended by section four of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eight, is hereby further amended by adding at the end of the last proviso therein contained and immediately before the paragraph marked "(a)" the following words : "And provided further, That the period within which the litigating parties must file their appeals and bills of exceptions against the final judgment of the Court of Land Registration shall be thirty days, counting from the date on which the party received a copy of the decision, which period may, in the discretion of the court, in writing be extended to sixty days if the hearing of the cases was had in the provinces, or if they relate to lands situated outside of the city of Manila."

SEC. 2. 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. 3. This Act shall take effect July first, nineteen hundred and six.

Enacted, May 9, 1906.