[ Act No. 1063, February 24, 1904 ]

AN ACT FIXING THE TERRITORY OVER WHICH THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR THE MUNICIPALITY OF JOLO SHALL HAVE JURISDICTION.

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

SECTION 1. The justice of the peace appointed in and for the municipality of Jolo shall have jurisdiction over all cases, both civil and criminal, which under the provisions of existing law are properly cognizable by courts of justices of the peace, arising within the entire Sulu district of the Moro Province, as defined by section two (a) of Act Numbered Seven hundred and eighty-seven.

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 24, 1904.