[ Act No. 777, May 29, 1903 ]

AN ACT AMENDING ACT NUMBERED SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR, PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE LOCATION AND MANNER OF RECORDING MINING CLAIMS, AND THE AMOUNT OF WORK NECESSARY TO HOLD POSSESSION OF A MINING CLAIM, BY CORRECTING AN ERROR IN SECTION THREE OF SAID ACT.

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

SECTION 1. Section three of Act Numbered Six hundred and twenty-four, prescribing regulations governing the location and manner of recording mining claims, and the amount of work necessary to hold possession of a mining claim, is hereby amended by substituting the word "mineral" for the word "mining" in the first line of the second paragraph thereof.

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, May 29, 1903.