[ Act No. 1682, August 14, 1907 ]
ALL ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWO OF ACT NUMBERED ELEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX, ENTITLED "AN ACT FOR THE PURPOSE OF EMPOWERING PROVINCIAL BOARDS TO SUBPOENA WITNESSES AND TO REQUIRE TESTIMONY UNDER OATH IN CONDUCTING CERTAIN INVESTIGATIONS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," BY EXTENDING THE AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL TO DISQUALIFY FROM HOLDING OFFICE ALL OFFICIALS REMOVED FOR CAUSE.
By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:
SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty-six is hereby amended to read as follows:
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage.
Enacted, August 14, 1907.
SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty-six is hereby amended to read as follows:
''SEC. 2. In all eases where an official shall be removed from office for cause by the action of any official or branch of the Government, the Governor-General is hereby empowered, in his discretion, to declare such official disqualified thereafter from holding office. Such disqualification may lie either special or general and either temporary or permanent."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 on its passage.
Enacted, August 14, 1907.