[ Act No. 363, February 20, 1902 ]

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHT, BY PROVIDING THAT THE PRESIDENTS OF MUNICIPAL BOARDS OF HEALTH IN MUNICIPALITIES WHERE PROVINCIAL JAILS ARE LOCATED SHALL ACT AS PHYSICIANS TO PRISONERS CONFINED IN SUCH JAILS, UPON REQUEST OF PROVINCIAL BOARDS.

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

SECTION 1. Act Numbered Three hundred and eight, entitled "An Act providing for the establishment of municipal boards of health, and fixing their powers and duties," is hereby amended by adding at the close of section six the following words: "Whenever a municipal board of health has been established in a municipality where a provincial jail is located, the president of such municipal board of health shall act as physician to the prisoners confined in the provincial jail, if required to do so by resolution of the provincial board."

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, February 20, 1902.