[ Act No. 1065, February 25, 1904 ]

AN ACT SO AMENDING ACT NUMBERED EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHT AS TO CLOSE CAPE MELVILLE, BALABAC ISLAND, AS A PORT OF ENTRY, AND CREATING BALABAC, ISLAND OF BALABAC, AS A PORT OF ENTRY, AND PROVIDING FOR THE NECESSARY OFFICE FORCE AT THE PORT OF BALABAC.

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

SECTION 1. Section two of Act Numbered Eight hundred and ninety-eight, entitled "An Act providing for the closing of the port of Aparri as a port of entry, creating the ports of Bongao, Cape Melville, Balabac Island, and Puerto Princesa ports of entry, and amending section three hundred and one of Act Numbered Three hundred and fifty-five," is hereby so amended as to read  follows:
“SEC. 2. The port of Bongao, in the Jolo collection district, and the ports of Balabac, Balabac Island, and Puerto Princesa, in the Manila collection district, are hereby created ports of entry.”
SEC. 2. The collector of customs and employees authorized by section three of said Act Numbered Eight hundred and ninety-eight, for the port of Cape Melville, are hereby authorized for the port of Balabac, instead of for the port of Cape Melville.

SEC. 3. Section six of said Act Numbered Eight hundred and ninety-eight is hereby amended by striking out the words "Cape Melville, Balabac Island," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "Balabac, on Balabac Island."

SEC. 4. 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. 5. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, February 25, 1904.