[ Act No. 2775, March 11, 1918 ]
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Legislature assembled and by the authority of the same:
SECTION 1. Section fourteen hundred and ninety-three of the Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Effective, March 11, 1918.
SECTION 1. Section fourteen hundred and ninety-three of the Administrative Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 1493. Specific tax on matches.—On matches there shall be collected:SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on its approval.
"(a) On each gross of boxes containing not more than eighty sticks to the box, forty centavos.
"(b) On each gross of boxes containing over eighty sticks to the box, a proportionate additional tax."
Effective, March 11, 1918.