[ Act No. 1535, August 31, 1906 ]

AN ACT TO ENCOURAGE THE SHIPPING TRADE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS BY ABOLISHING THE COLLECTION OF ALL TONNAGE DUES ON VESSELS COMING FROM FOREIGN PORTS TO PORTS OF ENTRY IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

Whereas the Government of the Philippine; Islands is authorized by section eleven of an Act of the Congress of the United States, approved February sixth, nineteen hundred and live, to modify, suspend, or repeal the provisions respecting tonnage dues set forth in sections fourteen and fifteen of an Act entitled "An Act to revise and amend the tariff laws of the "Philippine Archipelago," enacted by the Philippine Commission on September seventeenth, nineteen hundred and one, and confirmed by an Act of Congress approved March eighth, nineteen hundred and two. which said section eleven has been continued in force by section twenty of an Act of the Congress of the United States, approved March third, nineteen hundred and five: Therefore.

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

SECTION 1.   The provisions respecting tonnage dues on the entry of a vessel  from  a  port or place not  in Philippine Islands  contained in sections fourteen and fifteen of Act Numbered Two  hundred and thirty, entitled " An Act to revise tariffs laws of the Philippine Archipelago,"enacted by the Philippine Commission on September seventeenth, nineteen hundred and one, nineteen hundred and two, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. The public good requiring the speedy bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited section two of "An Act prescribing the order o Commission in the enactment of laws," passed sixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect on September first, nineteen hundred and six.

Enacted, August 31, 1906.